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The performer Bianca Bonino will perform an excerpt of “The Betrothed”, the famous book by Alessandro Manzoni. The performance will be in Italian – a…
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COMMEMORATIONS FOR THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF DANTE ALIGHIERI How Dante changed my life from Melbourne to Umbria in a heart beat Professor…
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Alda Merini was one of the foremost women poets of the last century. Born in Milan in 1931, she died there at the age of…
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Umberto Saba was born in 1883 in Austro-Hungarian Trieste. He engaged in various types of employment, including writing for Mussolini’s newspaper Il popolo d’Italia in…
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In my last column of 2019 I selected Rocco Scotellaro and included two short poems of his. I wish to share with you two more…