Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 Time 6:00 pm to 8:00pm ITALIAN CENTER OF THE WEST The Sister City & County relationship, Torino, ItalyUtah'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-cultur... 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.