Italian

[ON CAMPUS] MAJORS/MINORS MEETING

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Save the date! We are excited to announce our Major/Minor meeting on Tuesday 10/3 at 3:30 in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library! Come meet the faculty and discuss our spring course offerings, study abroad, and get to know your classmates taking courses over empanadas and refreshments! Swipe for a list of our spring ‘24 classes. Please contact evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu with any questions. We can’t wait to see you there!

[On Campus] Major/Minor meeting and Guitar Concert

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There will be a special meeting on Tuesday 10/25 at 3:30 pm to discuss the course offerings for MLL majors, minors, and all those continuing to take classes in the spring, followed by a guitar concert with classical Guitarist and Professor Daniel Garcia. Please join us to learn more about spring courses, meet the professors and fellow MLL students, and listen to some wonderful South American music!

Hope to see you all there! All are welcome!

[On Campus] Screening of Italian Film “Nuovomundo” (2006)

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Wednesday, 9/28, 12 pm, Commons 3B – Ciao MC!Screening Of The Film Nuovomondo (2006)

CIAO MC is back! Bring your lunch and enjoy a movie with us! We will watch the film Nuovomondo (Golden Door, 2006), directed by Emanuele Crialese. The film depicts a family’s migration journey from Sicily to New York at the beginning of the 20th century. The lively humor and stunning images will entertain you, but they will also invite you to reflect on today’s immigration policies and attitudes towards immigrants. A conversation about the histories of our families and their journey will follow. 

[ON CAMPUS] Screening and discussion of Italian movie “Dangerous Beauty,” led by Dr. Luisanna Sardu

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Wednesday, March 2nd, 4:00-6:30 pm in the Commons 3C the LWGRC, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Italian Club will host a screening for our Ciao MC! series. Join us to watch Dangerous Beauty, the movie adaptation of the life of Veronica Franco, a celebrated Venetian courtesan of the 1500s. In the movie, Veronica Franco is a young woman who cannot marry her love interest because she is from a lower social class. Early Modern Europe offered few options to women: convent or marriage. If a young woman was too poor to have a dowry and get married, it was a common practice to be sent to a convent. Veronica chooses instead to become a courtesan, a highly paid, cultured sex worker.

Before the movie, Dr. Luisanna Sardu (MLL) will briefly talk about women’s social role in 1500s Venice and Franco’s work, which paved the way for female authors during the early modern period.

[On Campus] Dr. Luca Lévi Sala’s Presentation on Music and Politics During Italian Fascism”

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13 at 3.30PM, KELLY 3B

Dr. Luca Lévi Sala is adjunct assistant professor of musicology at the department ofmusic and theater at Manhattan College and Visiting Scholar at the music department of NYU.
This event is presented by the Department of Modern Languages and Literature, the Department of History, and the Department of Music and Theater.

FOR MORE INFO EMAIL: LUISANNA.SARDU@MANHATTAN.EDU

[OFF CAMPUS] EXHIBITION: THE MEDICI, PORTRAITS AND POLITICS, 1512-1570

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Metropolitan Museum of New York, until October 11.

Exhibition Overview

Some of the greatest portraits of Western art were painted in Florence during the tumultuous years from 1512 to 1570, when the city was transformed from a republic with elected officials into a duchy ruled by the Medici family. The key figure in this transformation was Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became Duke of Florence in 1537, following the assassination of his predecessor, Alessandro de’ Medici. Cosimo shrewdly employed culture as a political tool in order to convert the mercantile city into the capital of a dynastic Medicean state, enlisting the leading intellectuals and artists of his time and promoting grand architectural, engineering, and artistic projects. Through Giorgio Vasari’s famous written work Lives of the Artists, which was dedicated to the duke, Florence was promoted as the cradle of the Renaissance. Through an outstanding group of portraits, this major loan exhibition will introduce visitors to the various new and complex ways that artists portrayed the elite of Medicean Florence, representing the sitters’ political and cultural ambitions and conveying the changing sense of what it meant to be a Florentine at this defining moment in the city’s history. The exhibition will feature over 90 works in a wide range of mediums, from paintings, sculptural busts, medals, and carved gemstones to drawings, etchings, manuscripts, and armor. Included are works by the period’s most celebrated artists, from Raphael, Jacopo Pontormo, and Rosso Fiorentino to Benvenuto Cellini, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati.

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