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An exhibition of drawings by Roman artist Marco Flavio Marinucci, featuring excerpts of San Francisco trees paired with fragments from modern poems by Neruda, Takahashi, Corman, Szymborska and Hass. His new series of steel-nib drawings draws upon a world of visual influences, including German Expressionist printmaking, Islamic calligraphy, and Hokusai, Hiroshige and other Japanese master landscape artists.See More

Alfonso is a scientist from Naples. A shy and clumsy man, he has just lost his job. Gayan is a fascinating former Sri Lankan cricket champion who has just arrived in Naples penniless and thinks he’s found paradise. Alfonso has spent all his life studying the migration of cells and watching soap operas with his mother. Gayan has traveled and has known fame, glory and money. What brings these two men together? How can such different people become inextricably bound together?Director Paola Randi…See More

Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler, founders of the studio Architecture and Vision, will have their sculpture for microgravity “AtlasCoelestisZeroG“ on exhibition in the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco. ”AtlasCoelestisZeroG” is a sculpture designed for the microgravity environment in space. It draws inspiration from Galileo’s invention of the telescope over 400 years ago and its impact on our understanding of the universe.See More

Susan Thomas and Richard Jackson read excerpts from their book Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli.  Beatrice Basso reads the original Italian version. Last Voyage is the first comprehensive English translation of the poems of Giovanni Pascoli, a renowned Italian poet who strongly influenced Pavese and other modern poets.See More

Susan Thomas and Richard Jackson read excerpts from their book Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli.  Beatrice Basso reads the original Italian version. Last Voyage is the first comprehensive English translation of the poems of Giovanni Pascoli, a renowned Italian poet who strongly influenced Pavese and other modern poets.See More

The IIC presents a selection of five films that explore main changes and issues in Italian society. The sequence of movies follows a chronological order of events from the 1970s to the 2000s, as well as five key themes: Mafia and Family (I cento passi), Politics (Il Divo), Work (La febbre), Economy (Il gioiellino), and Immigration (Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio). All movies are in Italian with English subtitles.See More

Take a whirlwind virtual tour of Rome with a slideshow covering 2000 years of culinary history, and discover what makes its signature dishes quintessentially Roman. 1. Pane: How bread kept emperors employed and won Romans over to American culture 2. Antipasti: How a jewish appetizer conquered the catholic capital 3. Primi: New world flavors redefine an ancient cuisine 4. Contorno: How sauces gave Rome an appetite for colonization 5. Secondo: The origin of Italy's gutsiest cuisine 6. Coffee and…See More

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And Bernini's artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings and other works of his design that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall tourists.…See More

The “Masters of Venice” exhibition now at the de Young Museum gives us a rare chance to see a group of superb paintings which are normally in the collection of the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna.Art historian Deborah Loft will introduce us to the exhibition, and will share observations to enhance our visit. What is distinctive about Venetian Renaissance painting? What are the stories being told? What was the role of Venetian painting in the broader European context? Join us to enjoy this…See More

The Leonardo da Vinci Society, Cenacolo, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura present an illustrated lecture by Mario Fusco entitled “Discovering Romagna and Veneto”. The presentation of gorgeous photographs by professional artist Angelica Di Chiara Fusco will be followed by a reception. Mario Fusco received his early education in Italy then earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Davis and then embarked on a lifelong career in the aerospace industry as well as in academia.…See More