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First conference of the ANVGD project “Dante Adriaticus”
The teleconference “Dante Adriaticus. Literature, art and history in the name of Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic” took place on Monday 12 April, the inaugural event of the series of initiatives “Dante Adriaticus” that the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will carry out during this 2021 Dante centenary: the hope is to be able to carry out the subsequent initiatives in person in Verona, Pola and Rome in September and October, in compliance with the current anti-Covid provisions. Morning session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwqmRcsJlE Introduced and moderated by Lorenzo Salimbeni Communications Manager Association...
Literature, art and history in the Eastern Adriatic in the name of Dante Alighieri
The teleconference “Dante Adriaticus. Literature, art and history in the name of Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic” will take place on Monday 12 April, the inaugural event of the series of initiatives “Dante Adriaticus” that the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will carry out during this 2021 Dante centenary. The scientific committee and the organizational secretariat of this project, financed by Law 72/2001, were established within the Provincial Committee of Rome of the ANVGD: the hope is to be able to carry out the subsequent initiatives in person in Verona, Pola and Rome in September and October, in compliance with those that...
“Dante Adriaticus” to rediscover the Adriatic Italianness
In an era when it was still premature to speak of State and Nation, Dante had very clear ideas about what the territorial and cultural borders of Italy were. An Italy conceived as a region in which the same language was spoken, observed in the variety of its dialects in De vulgari eloquentia, where Istrian is also mentioned. An Italy conceived in the Divine Comedy “as in Pola near Carnaro, which closes Italy and bathes its borders”, with reference to the Roman necropolis of Pola, which the illustrious poet almost certainly had the opportunity to see during a stay in Istria. In the period of the Risorgimento, in which the Italian language represented a...
Italians don't go on holiday
We share this article from the website of the Comitato 10 Febbraio, already published in the columns of the newspaper “Avvenire”, by Prof. Alessandro Masi, Secretary General of the Dante Alighieri Society and Councilor of the National Dalmatian Association. Unlike Venice, in Curzola, the most beautiful island between Split and Ragusa, cruise ships cannot dock. Stopped two miles from the port, the monstrous floating cities vomit hundreds of tourists every day, often unaware of everything. The large statues of the lions of the Serenissima Republic placed on the bastions of the city, slyly watch the scene in memory of a past that on this island...
