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When: Friday, October 26, 2012 — 7 p.m. Where: Dante Alighieri Society — 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge MA [map] Spajazzy and Italy Music Camp present a jazz concert at Dante Alighieri Society, as part of the ongoing Italian Heritage Month celebrations. The free Italian jazz concert will feature the group Spajazzy mixing up Italian melodies and jazz. The group is made up of: Mark Greel, Trumpet, Guitar, Sax, Flute, Voice, and more Tino D’Agostino, Bass Sergio Bellotti, Drums At the end of the concert, there will be light refreshments and the three musicians will talk about music opportunities at the ...

The first Annual Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture will be held on Tuesday, October 16, at The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Upon his centennial celebration, the Harvard Film Archive will present an extensive retrospective of the feature-length and short masterworks of the incomparable Michelangelo Antonioni.

Pier Luigi Sacco is professor of Cultural Economics at IULM University, Milan, and as of September 1, 2011, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Markets, and Heritage.

Emilio Gentile is Professor Emeritus, University of Rome, "La Sapienza." He is the most prominent historian writing on Italian Fascism today and has published many books on the subject.

When: Sunday, October 28, 2012 — 5 p.m. Where: Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts — 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge MA [map] Written by Nobel-Prize winner Dario Fo and performed by Mario Pirovano. “A unique combination of history, pathos and artistic craftsmanship in a wonderful one-man show recounting with energy and color an unusual aspect of Francis of Assisi-the joker, the jester, who taught through humor the message of Christ.” Sponsored by the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Italian Heritage Month, the Italian Consulate in Boston, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Presentation by Tommaso Piffer, postdoctoral fellow in contemporary history at the University of Milan.

The Coro-Dante, New England’s only all-Italian repertory chorus, will begin their sixth season this fall. Anyone — Sopranos, Altos, Tenors and Basses — interested in singing in Italian is welcome to come learn more. The first rehearsal will be September 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge. The Coro will be practicing for the opening event of the Italian-American Heritage Month — a short concert of four pieces, to be sung at the State House on October 1st at 10:30 a.m. Rehearsals for the Christmas program will start on October 8 and continue every ...

The 86th annual festival in honor of Saints Cosmas and Damian will take place Saturday, September 8, 2012, and Sunday, September 9, 2012. For more information click on the banner below or visit the Feast’s website: http://www.cosmas-and-damian.org/feast_schedule.html

When: Monday, September 24, 2012 — 7 p.m. Where: Harvard Film Archive — Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA [map] The Kingdom of Naples (Nel regno di Napoli) Directed by Werner Schroeter. With Liana Trouche, Antonio Orlando, Renata Zamengo Italy/West Germany 1978, 35mm, 130 min. Italian with English subtitles In this intimate epic that stretches from 1943 to 1978, director Werner Schroeter tells the story of postwar Italy by watching two neighboring Neapolitan families struggle against poverty and the despair it entails. Centered on two children born at the end of the war – one who grows up attracted ...

The destruction of Pompeii—buried under the ashes of erupting Mount Vesuvius—was one of the most widespread and visually powerful motifs of 19th-century historical painting.

When: Sunday September 23 — 4 p.m. Where: Harvard Film Archive — Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA [map] The Last Days of Pompeii. Free Screening – Live Piano Accompaniment by Robert Humphreville Directed by Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi. With Victor Varconi, Rina De Liguoro, María Corda Italy 1926, 35 mm, tinted b/w, silent, 144 min The spectacular end of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, buried under the ashes of erupting Mount Vesuvius, was a favorite subject of early historical films. These movies drove cinematic innovation and were among the first major box-office hits in the annals ...