March 31
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Boccaccio’s Anger
Gur Zak is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also serves as the Head of the Institute of Literatures. His primary research interest lies in the interrelations between literature, ethics, and the emotions in the later Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, with a particular emphasis on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. He is the author of Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self (Cambridge, 2010) and Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (PIMS, 2022). His current research deals with the literary, philosophical, and political implications of compassion in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from Dante to Tasso. He has published articles in journals such as Speculum, MLN, and I Tatti Studies, and has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. He is also interested in the theory and practice of autobiography from antiquity to the present and contemporary theories of affects. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:00 pm
The Store Under the Portico
Ispirato a una storia vera, The Store Under the Portico è un musical originale ambientato a Mantova, in Italia, durante l’occupazione tedesca del Nord Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale. Renata Baraldi, affettuosamente chiamata “Tata”, rileva un negozio di tessuti per una famiglia ebrea nascosta al culmine del fascismo (dove le donne erano considerate niente più che portatrici di figli). In un paese letteralmente diviso in due, dove i nazisti sparavano agli italiani a caso mentre gli alleati li bombardavano, le cose in Italia non erano così semplici come sembravano. The Store Under the Portico racconta la storia mai raccontata del nemico/alleato della seconda guerra mondiale, ma nel profondo si concentra sulla vita quotidiana della gente di Mantova e su ciò che è disposta a fare per amore.
April 1
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 1, 2025 – 6:30 -8:30 pm
Advetures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
A conversation with Federica Lombardi. The sixth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Italian soprano Federica Lombardi, who will be singing the role of Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at The Metropolitan Opera.
April 2
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Of Orpheus, Eurydice,Vivaldi, and more
Last year, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo captivated audiences at the Metropolitan Opera with his moving portrayal of Orpheus in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. This spring, Sarah Ruhl’s celebrated play Eurydice returns to New York City, following the success of its operatic adaptation. Now, the two artists are collaborating on The Seasons, a “new Baroque opera about the weather,” with music by Antonio Vivaldi and an original libretto by Ruhl, running this March at Boston Lyric Opera. Who better to explore the art of adaptation, the echoes of the past in the present and future, and the transformative power of performance and voice? How do they illuminate memory, loss, nature, and trauma? Join us for an evening of insight and artistry, where music and words come together to explore timeless human questions. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Maurizio Marinella -“Giornata del Made in Italy”
Il 26 giugno 1914, l’imprenditore napoletano Eugenio Marinella inaugurò una bottega di 20 metri quadrati in Piazza della Vittoria, nel quartiere di Chiaia, dove si iniziarono a realizzare prodotti sartoriali su misura (in particolar modo camicie e cravatte) con sete stampate a mano in Inghilterra. La clientela originaria era prevalentemente composta da cavalieri e amazzoni della locale aristocrazia, complice la vicinanza della Villa Comunale e del percorso equestre ivi presente.
Nel corso degli anni, la clientela si è estesa esponenzialmente, fino a comprendere personalità di spicco della nobiltà e del jet set internazionale.
April 3
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Thursday, April 3, 2025 – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Mattia Venni Opera Recital
Programma: Antonio Caldara: Come raggio di sol. Gaetano Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore – Udite, udite, o rustici! Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula – Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni, Luigi Denza: Occhi di fata, Francesco Paolo Tosti: L’ultima canzone, Renato Brogi: Visione veneziana Ernesto de Curtis: Non ti scordar di me, Cesare Andrea Bixio: Mamma - Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, April 3, 2025 – 8:00 pm
Contrappunto Frizzante
This collaboration between NYU Casa Italiana, Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and NYU Steinhardt String Studies brings together student quartets from Italy and the U.S. for an opportunity to share musical insights and deepen their artistry. Through rehearsals, masterclasses, and performances of Mendelssohn’s quartets and octet, students will explore different musical traditions under the guidance of esteemed instructors. This project offers a vibrant educational experience, combining cultural perspectives and the pure joy of playing together, while strengthening connections between the institutions involved.
April 4
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, April 4, 2025 – 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Forgotten Gems with Siri Hustvedt
Forgotten Gems is a series that takes place at Casa Italiana as part of the literary festival Le Conversazioni that focuses on films that the speakers believe worthy of being [re]discovered. Antonio Monda and his guest each choose three films to present and discuss (accompanied by clips). This season’s fourth guest is author Siri Hustvedt. - Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, April 4, 2025 – 11:00 am
Contrappunto Frizzante
This collaboration between NYU Casa Italiana, Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and NYU Steinhardt String Studies brings together student quartets from Italy and the U.S. for an opportunity to share musical insights and deepen their artistry. Through rehearsals, masterclasses, and performances of Mendelssohn’s quartets and octet, students will explore different musical traditions under the guidance of esteemed instructors. This project offers a vibrant educational experience, combining cultural perspectives and the pure joy of playing together, while strengthening connections between the institutions involved.
April 5
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Saturday, April 5, 2025 – 4:00 pm
Contrappunto Frizzante
This collaboration between NYU Casa Italiana, Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and NYU Steinhardt String Studies brings together student quartets from Italy and the U.S. for an opportunity to share musical insights and deepen their artistry. Through rehearsals, masterclasses, and performances of Mendelssohn’s quartets and octet, students will explore different musical traditions under the guidance of esteemed instructors. This project offers a vibrant educational experience, combining cultural perspectives and the pure joy of playing together, while strengthening connections between the institutions involved.
April 8
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Humans: A Monstruous History
Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein’s monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025) shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal. In an age when corporations increasingly see people as obstacles to profits, this book traces the long, volatile history of monster-making and charts a better path for the future. The result is a profound, effervescent, empowering retelling of the history of the world for anyone who wants to reverse rising inequality and polarization. This is not a history of monsters, but a history through monsters.
April 7
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Monday, April 7, 2025 – 5:00 pm
Anna Maria Ortese a New York – Conferenza
Un evento significativo e avvincente, poiché questa scrittrice italiana unica e illustre rimane in gran parte sconosciuta ai lettori americani.
I relatori esploreranno i diversi aspetti delle opere di Ortese, offrendo nuove prospettive interpretative che contribuiscono alla continua rivalutazione della cultura e della letteratura femminile nel ventesimo secolo.
April 9
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Unlearn. Racialization and Italian Identity in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
How do both Italians of multiple backgrounds and members of the Italian diaspora consider their place in the world, their various identities, and how they relate to one another? The UNLEARN series podcast, created by Zoe Map and produced in collaboration with Accento World, seeks to answer this question through a visual podcast. Each episode features a series of discussions with Italians of different backgrounds on topics like racialization in Italy and abroad, emigration from Italy and immigration to Italy, Italian colonialism, and, most recently, Italian fashion.
After a screening of excerpts from the UNLEARN series podcast featuring various guests, Zoe Map and Kristal Trotter, founder of Accento World, will talk about their experiences engaging in conversations about Italian identity within the context of the podcast. They will discuss how they make academic knowledge and information accessible to a broader public, what kinds of challenges and resistances they’ve faced in their work, and how Italians and others unlearn old narratives and create space for new ones while taking accountability.
April 10
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Dante and Money
Day 1: Keynote Lecture. Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste. Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante’s representation of the medieval financial revolution. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Perfection di Vincenzo Latronico
Presentazione libro. Perfection, il primo libro di Vincenzo Latronico tradotto in inglese da Sophie Hughes, è un romanzo tagliente sull’esistenza contemporanea, un racconto di due persone che si svegliano gradualmente e si ritrovano in varie trappole, chiedendosi come tutto ciò sia potuto accadere. È stata una mancanza di lungimiranza o sono semplicemente nati troppo tardi?
April 11
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, April 11, 2025 – 9:30 pm
Dante and Money
Day 2:Symposium. Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste. Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante’s representation of the medieval financial revolution.
April 14
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, April 14, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Dino Risi’s “Il giovedì”
Dino Versini, a separated father, obtains a judge’s permission to spend one day a week with his son. Every Thursday, Dino picks up Robertino in his flashy sports car, eager to impress him and hide from the boy the failures of his life. However, Dino’s brash manners and high-society friends fail to convince the child. After a disastrous trip to the seaside, during which Dino’s lover leaves him, and a visit to the grandmother’s house, an encounter with an industrialist further ruins the father’s already shaky reputation. At the end of the day, after returning his son to his ex-wife, Dino is left to call his lover to beg for forgiveness.
