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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: Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 3:00 pm. Where: Sanders Theatre, Harvard University — 45 Quincy St., Cambridge. The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras will bring to life one of opera’s most compelling characters in a one-time-only performance of Verdi’s renowned Rigoletto. Verdi’s heart-breaking tale of love and deception has been a favorite of the operatic repertoire ever since its 1851 opening in Venice. The opera is based on the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. The story follows Rigoletto, the hunchbacked court jester, and the womanizing Duke of Mantua as they weave a mesmerizing tale of seduction, treachery, curses ...

When: Friday, November 16, 2012 Where: Harvard University – Mahindra Humanities Center – Thompson Room This workshop is co-sponsored by the Lauro De Bosis Lecture Series in Italian Art and the Nicholas Sottile Fund for Italian Studies, Boston College. Program: 10:00 a.m. Introduction by Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museums 10:15 a.m. Tony Sigel, Harvard Art Museums: Bernini’s Models in Clay I: New Research into Techniques, Uses, and Authorship 11:15 a.m. Franco Mormando, Boston College: Bernini’s Models in Clay II: What the Biographical Sources Reveal 2:00 p.m. Shawon Kinew, Harvard University: ‘Come se stati fossero di pasta’: Bernini’s sculptural morbidezza 3:00 ...

When: November 15, 2012 at 5:30 pm. Where: Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge. This lecture is presented by Dr. Cristelle Baskins, an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University. Dr. Baskins is an expert on the Italian Renaissance, Secular Painting and Narrative, and Gender and Women’s Studies. The event is part of the AKPIA Lecture Series 2012–2013: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard. The lecture is free and open to the public.

One of Italy’s major luminaries on the history of fascism, Professor Emilio Gentile, recently visited the Boston area to hold lectures at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge. A professor at Rome’s Università La Sapienza and former student of Renzo De Felice, Gentile is considered one of Italy’s foremost cultural historians of fascist ideology. At Harvard, Gentile held a lecture on October 16, titled “The March on Rome: How Antifascists Understood the Origins of Totalitarianism (and Coined the Word).” The lecture was part of the first annual Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and ...

The European student clubs at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management will be presenting the 13th annual NOVA conference in Boston on November 9-11, 2012.

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.

Several Harvard faculty members traveled to Venice last month to take part in the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture, a three-month contemporary architecture festival that will run through November 25. Among the faculty members was Harvard Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi. “The Venice Biennale provides an important opportunity for the architecture and design community to share and debate innovative ideas from across the world,” Mostafavi told the Harvard Gazette. “As leaders in practice as well as teaching, an impressive number of GSD faculty were involved in the extraordinary installations, projects, and discussions that addressed the exhibition theme of ...

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.

This summer, look for tours in ten different languages. A tour in Italian with Francesca Secchi will be held on June 10.