This talk will be hosted on Zoom. Tickets £ 8.
Almost contemporaries, Cicero and Ovid—orator and poet by trade—have nothing in common except that they were the greatest of their time, and that they were exiled from Rome at some point in their lives. They both talk at length about the circumstances that led to their banishment and about being in exile (about not being in Rome), Cicero in several speeches and in a book of “private” letters, Ovid in two collections of poems amounting to nine books. How deeply intertwined are Cicero’s and Ovid’s writings? And what does this odd connection tell us about the hardships of exile, both as a literary theme and as a real-life experience?
Gabriele Rota is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and outreach officer of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures. He works on classical Latin literature, and on its reception and transmission from antiquity to the Enlightenment.
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Come and celebrate the festive season with the British Italian Society members and friends in a Christmassy Italian atmosphere at Granaio, Piccadilly. All welcome!
Price includes:
A welcome drink, a three-course dinner, half bottle of wine pp, water, tea and coffee.
Granaio, Italian restaurant – 224 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, London, W1J 9HP
Details for this event will be available at later date.
This event will reflect on the unsung power of every migrants’ savings and their contribution to society’s development through the inspiring story of AP Giannini, a common migrant, whose lifelong commitment to social mobility led him to found and grow Bank of America against all odds.
Valentina Signorelli (PhD) Course Leader BA Media and Communication, University of East London, UK. Co-founder and Creative Producer of Daitona, awarded the most innovative Italian production house of 2018 and its advertising division DOGODOT.
Cecilia Zoppelletto (PhD) Visiting Professor of Film Studies, Académie des Beaux Arts Kinshasa, DRC. Founder of Preston Witman Productions, documentary filmmaker and factual content producer, she has worked for the Italian national broadcasting company RAI and AntennaTreNordest.
A DRINKS RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE TALK
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A JOINT EVENT WITH THE VENICE IN PERIL FUND
Formerly a Trustee of the British-Italian Society, Charles Avery is a specialist in European, particularly Italian, sculpture. A graduate in Classics from Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge. Charles was Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1966-79) and a Director of Christie’s for a decade. Since 1990 he has been an independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer.
Charles’ books include Florentine Renaissance Sculpture (1970), Donatello: an Introduction (1994), Giambologna, the Complete Sculpture (1987), Bernini, Genius of the Baroque (1997 – paperback, 2006), The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos (1678-1741) and the Art of Sculpture (2008), A School of Dolphins (2009) and Joseph De Levis & Company: Renaissance Bronze-Founders in Verona (2016). His latest book is Il Bresciano: Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice.
A DRINKS RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE TALK
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Since it was founded in 1941, the British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, including Italy’s history, institutions, way of life, language and wider contribution to civilisation.
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