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A Student’s Work to Help Italy Deal with COVID-19

As campus shuts down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we speak with Paolo Mazzara ’23, an undergrad who is spending quarantine aiding Italian healthcare workers.

Historian James Hankins on Political Thought in the Italian Renaissance

James Hankins is a professor of Renaissance Intellectual History at Harvard University. He is the founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library from Harvard...

Prof. Barry McCrea presents “Primo Levi’s The Truce: a guide to returning to life”

The Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, in partnership with Kylemore Abbey Global Center and the Notre Dame Alumni Association, are launching the latest series with the Rome Book Club...

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Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio’s Decameron by Justin Steinberg

As part of the fourth edition of The Three Crowns: Texts and Contexts of Medieval Italy series, the Center for Italian Studies is delighted to host a lunchtime book presentation...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Way of Seeing Water: Wetlands, Mapping, and the Art of Painting

Leonardo da Vinci’s close observation of water is well known as is his unparalleled draftsmanship in rendering water eddies, turns, swirls, and flows. In this lecture, Professor...

Graduate Student Invitation Series Lecture: Professor Eugenio Refini (NYU), “Whose Aristotle? Latinate Knowledge and Vernacular Translation in Medieval Italy”

A famous tale from the Novellino (one of the most prominent collections of novelle before Boccaccio’s Decameron) ridicules a philosopher who endeavors to translate science and...

A Tour Through Time

A year can go by quickly. If you’re lucky, you know this from the beginning, like Jenna Frantik ’20 did during her third year in the School of Architecture, the year students...

ND Law holds second annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome, Italy

The world’s leading defenders of religious freedom gathered in Rome from July 20-22, 2022 for the second annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, hosted by the Law...

The Nativity

Although we don’t know who painted this work, we do know it was created in the 1500s by an Italian artist who copied an original painting by Jacopo Bassano. At the time, Italy...

Ulysses Goes Global

Notre Dame celebrates 100 years of James Joyce’s masterpiece Kevin Whelan is standing on a street corner of Merrion Square, just across the park from Notre Dame’s Dublin...

Lenten Music Through the Ages

Get ready to embark on your own journey to Italy. This lecture invites you into the world of sacred music and how artistic, religious, and intellectual communities in Rome helped...