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When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 — 7 to 8:30 p.m. Where: Room 145, Tang Center or Building E51-145, (Tang Center) — 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA [map] The Circolo Italiano presents a book presentation by American journalist and author Alexander Stille. The son of Ugo Stille, a well-known Italian journalist and a former editor of Italy’s Milan-based Corriere della Sera newspaper, Stille will present his latest book, “The Force of Things: a Marriage in War and Peace.” The book follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across ...

n the last decade, a number of forged copies of several titles by Galileo have appeared in private collections, in institutional libraries and on the rare book market.

When: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 — 5 to 7 p.m. Where: MIT Faculty Club – E52 6th Floor — 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA [map] MIT Sloan is pleased to host an event honoring the life and career of Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States and Pioneer Investments’ US Colloquia Series. Franco Modigliani was known for his work on corporate finance, capital markets, macroeconomics and econometrics. In 1985, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on household savings and the dynamics of financial markets. He held ...

An experienced politician and former member of the European Parliament, Franz Turchi, served in that body as an expert on the Euro, European finances and the budget, and international relations between the EU, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, taking fact-finding trips to those areas.

Please join architect and artist Adam Van Doren at the Dante Alighieri Society for an illustrated book presentation on Friday, May 3, 2013.

Join Matteo Casini at the Dante to find out what historians have discovered on youth in Italy during one of the most fascinating periods in history.

This lecture will focus on a line of inquiry regarding the West's perception of the East with special focus on Italian cinematic representations of China and its people at home and abroad.

When: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 — 7 p.m. Where: Room 211, Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA [map] Three local scholars will share their personal and professional reasons for choosing to study and support Venice. Intended primarily to acquaint students, young professionals, and others unfamiliar with Save Venice to the mission of our organization and to the splendors of Venice, this event is free and open to the public. Matteo Casini – Suffolk University, History Jodi Cranston – Boston University, Art History Anne-Marie Eze – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Collections Moderated by Prof. James Johnson – Boston University, History ...

When: Sunday, March 17, 2013 — 7 p.m. Where: Dante Alighieri Society – 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge MA Narrator: Prof. Giulia Santi Pianist: Monica Lo Bianco Graphic Illustrator: Piero Schirinzi Graphic Designer: Andrea Raho Composer and sound designer: Gianluigi Antonaci The event will be held in English and in Italian Light Refreshment will be served For more information, visit www.dantemass.org.

Prize-winning author and MHS Fellow Megan Marshall will read from "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life," her biography of the 19th-century heroine who spent her last years in Rome and Florence as a war correspondent covering the early stages of Italy’s Risorgimento.

When: Friday, March 8th, 2013 at 6pm Where: American Academy of Arts and Sciences — 136 Irving St, Cambridge, MA Professionisti Italiani a Boston (PIB), in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the Circolo Italiano di Boston (ICB), will be hosting an event dedicated to the late Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning Neuroscientist and women’s rights activist. The event titled, “Rita Levi Montalcini: the Woman, the Scientist”  will feature a series of lectures from local scholars.   The speakers will be Prof. Emilio Bizzi, MIT, Dacia Maraini, writer, and Prof. Elio Raviola, Neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School. Cocktails and networking will be offered ...

When: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 7pm Where: 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University in the CAS Building, Room 313 Boston University’s Interdisciplinary Italian Studies Program Proudly Presents … “The ‘People Who Believe in Nothing’: Intolerable Thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy” Edward W. Muir, Jr. President Renaissance Society of America Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences Northwestern University Reception to follow!