ITALIAN CENTER OF THE WEST
The Sister City & County relationship, Torino, Italy
Utah's Former Consul of Italy Salt Lake City
Dr. Giovanni G. Maschero
Present the Free Lecture Series
Instructor
Dr. Alessandro A. Galvani
(Doctor in Education) Social historian, instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (U of U), cultural concierge,
alumnus of the University of Bologna, at the ELI University of Utah, at Provincia di Milano (Direzione Centrale Affari
Sociali), at Regione Lombardia (Direzione Generale Istruzione), at the European Social Fund.
The Italian Renaissance
How ten little towns changed the world. Forever.
Imagine eating out with Michelangelo, dating Monna Lisa, chatting with Lorenzo de Medici. All things you could have
done if you'd lived in Italy during the Renaissance period. Learn about the culture, art, and history of this fascinating
period through the eyes of the people who experienced it.
What would you talk about if in the local City Hall you met Botticelli? What if the kind man in line at the restaurant wrote that a prince (or the Mayor, today) should poison his enemies if in danger? What if the new man on the block wrote 900
thesis criticizing the Church 30 years before Luther's 95? Imagine if Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo's model for his
David was your neighbor. This was Italy in the XIV, XV, and XVI centuries. Florence, Rome, Milan, Venice, Naples, Mantua,
Padua, places where intellectuals helped Popes and princes to build the unique environment that we still enojoy now.
Monday, Feb. 25, 2013
Time 6:00 pm to 8:00pm
451 STATE St. - Room 335
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Please Use The EAST entrance
Come experience Mediterranean, through a slideshow and presentation.
Public is welcome, no admission fee.
Refreshments
RSVP ph 801-364-8259
The Italian Center is grateful for partial funds by the ZAP tax program Salt Lake County
"Italian Culture year 2013"
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/arts-and-culture/2013-be-year-italian-culture-usa
A year-long journey: the year of Italian Culture in the United States. America discovers Italy.
Italy
has declared 2013 the “Year of Italian Culture” in the United States
and aims to present the best of Italian culture and enterprise in order
to engage and enthuse Americans, and strengthen existing bonds and
create
new ones. The journey seeks to encourage encounters at all levels of Italian society,
economy and institutions.
Italy’s brilliance and excellence are anchored in the present and driven by an unparalleled
past. Its innovation is clearly in forward motion, as Italy engages in projects that look
to the future.
Italian culture and identity will be presented and decoded through the kaleidoscope of
geniality that has forged Italian life and lifestyle: art, music, theatre, cinema, literature,
architecture and archaelogy, science, design, fashion; politics, law and economics, and, of course, cuisine.