Literature - Finestre sull'Arte

Villae opens literary park Marguerite Yourcenar, Lodovico Ariosto, Ignatius of Loyola

The Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este Institute - VILLAE presents the Marguerite Yourcenar, Lodovico Ariosto, Ignazio di Loyola Literary Park - Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este Institute, promoted by the VILLAE in collaboration with Paesaggio Culturale It...
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At the Labyrinth of the Masone a major exhibition dedicated to Orhan Pamuk and his notebooks

From Nov. 18, 2023 to March 17, 2024, the Labirinto della Masone will host a major exhibition dedicated to Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, and his unpublished graphic production. ORHAN PAMUK. Words and Images, this is t...
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The largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to Tolkien and his Middle-earth is coming to Rome

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome is dedicating a major exhibition to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of the famous Middle-earth epic, from Nov. 16, 2023 to Feb. 11, 2024, fifty years after the death of the famous writer ...
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At the Scuderie del Quirinale a major exhibition dedicated to Calvino for the centenary of his birth

A preview of the major exhibition dedicated to Italo Calvino (Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba 1923 - Siena 1985), which will open in October 2023 in Rome at the Scuderie del Quirinale, was presented at the XXXV edition of the Turin International Book Fai...
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Uncovered in the University of Trieste Historical Archives an unpublished letter by Svevo

An unpublished letter by Italo Svevo has been found in the Historical Archives of theUniversity of Trieste, thanks to the research work conducted by Trieste scholar Lorenzo Ielen, PhD of UniTS. The discovery was made known at the Miramare Castle duri...
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Casa Bellonci, historic home of the Strega Prize, becomes a museum

Casa Bellonci, the historic home of the Strega Prize, is now a museum: the inauguration took place on Nov. 30, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Maria Bellonci's birth, and the ceremony was attended by Giovanni Solimine, president of the Fo...
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Jane Austen's world... in a puzzle, with sixty characters from her novels

Published by the publishing house L'Ippocampo, a puzzle inspired by the world of the famous British author Jane Austen has been created: among her literary masterpieces, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Persuasion. ...
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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Quarter. At Palazzo Altemps the first Italian exhibition on the subject

The National Roman Museum at Palazzo Altemps presents for the first time in Italy from Oct. 26, 2022 to Feb. 12, 2023 an exhibition that aims to celebrate the spirit that animated Bloomsbury, that is, the place where new forms of life and thought wer...
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