You might think I am going to provide you with the usual list of funny nicknames that Romans use to give to their family and friends. And yet, if you follow us and got to know well enough Rome and Romans, you should have learned that the creativity of this amazing people goes far beyond usual boundaries. As a matter of…
At 13ft (4.6m) high, it certainly won’t go by unnoticed on one of the most fashionable streets in the capital. The sculpture features a vintage Fiat 500 – the first car the 44-year-old Italian ever bought – and an oversized aluminium hand modelled from his son. Read more: Metro.co.uk
To master the prepositions you need a lot of practice therefore try with this activity. First combine the ten definite articles with the basic prepositions and form ten combined prepositions. After that, fill the gaps in the following six phrases. Use only six combined prepositions and click on the answer keys to check your answers. Buon lavoro, Antonio Forma le…
At the Estorick collection works by artists including Filippo de Pisis, Fortunato Depero and Giorgio de Chirico, the collection of Alberto Della Ragione provides an extraordinarily comprehensive overview of Italian Modernism. Masterpieces from the Alberto Della Ragione collection in the exhibition from the 12th January to the 3rd of April 2011
‘I’m not interested in the good guys winning’ In prison for a murder he didn’t commit, Massimo Carlotto found the true-life material for his explicit crime novels that go to the corrupt heart of Italy. Read more on The guardian
FRIDAY 21st JANUARY, 7PM original title: DOPO MEZZANOTTE directed by: Davide Ferrario cast: Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi, Fabio Troiano, Francesca Picozza Venue: Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8NX Martino is the night guardian of the Mole, the Turin Museum of Cinema. But for him it’s not just a job. From midnight on he considers himself the master…
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Italian artist, Pordenone Montanari, will take place at the Italian Cultural Institute in London from 21st September 2010. A series of over fifty of Montanari’s witty, modernist works, selected from a much larger cache of paintings and drawings found in a remote villa in the Piedmont region of Italy, will be displayed, on…
