Center for Italian Studies
The Italian Research Seminar
The Italian Research Seminar, a core event of the Center for Italian Studies, aims to provide a regular forum for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and colleagues...
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The Literary Canon of Early Venetian Humanism (1374-1446) between the Classics and the Moderns
In the first half of the fourteenth century, the Veneto region played a pivotal role in the early developments of Italian Humanism. In this same period, cities such as Padova and...
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Deadly Letters: Plague, Banditry, and Heresy in Early Modern Mail
The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Rachel Midura of Virginia Tech University titled āDeadly Letters: Plague, Banditry, and Heresy in Early...
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Italian Research Seminar: Jessica L. Harris (St. John’s University): ‘Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?’: Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy
The end of the Second World War marked a new beginning for Italy as the country sought to transition from Fascism to a modern, industrialized Republic, distancing itself from the...
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Italian Political Elections from an International Perspective
The 2022 Italian general election is was held in Italy on 25 September 2022. Speakers On. Gunther Krichbaum, European Politics spokesperson for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in...
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Primo Leviās The Truce: A Guide to Returning to Life
Written more than 15 years after the end of World War II, in The Truce, Levi tells the story of his long journey home from Auschwitz after the liberation. This is an especially...
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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...
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A Hell of a City: Danteās Inferno on the Road to Rome
This lecture is a guide to a few iconic moments in the Inferno (Hell), the first part of the "Divine Comedy" written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The story recounts a...
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Raphael’s School of Athens: The Medium and the Message
One of the most famous and influential paintings of the Renaissance, Raphaelās fresco of ancient philosophers under a vaulted hall is both a brilliant articulation of...
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Art History Works-in-Progress Series: “‘Magnificence Without Meaning’ in Piranesi’s Carceri”
Please join us for a lecture, āāMagnificence Without Meaningā in Piranesiās Carceriā by Professor Heather Hyde Minor. No registration is necessary, simply join using the...
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The Thaw: The Many Meanings of “Truce”
The Truce, written in 1962, takes up where If This is a Man left off, recounting Primo Leviās epic journey on trains, on foot, and on horse-and-cart, as he makes his way across...
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Primo Levi’s “The Truce”: The Reawakening
One of the meanings contained in the title of the novel is the idea of suspension of moral judgement. This is not to say that The Truce is a novel of forgiveness: rather these...
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