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After a successful debut last year, the IDEA Boston festival is returning packed with an expanded lineup of more than 25 panels, 60 guest speakers from academia to award-winning authors, poets, artists, social and political analysts, actors, musicians, a photo...

“The Italian literary establishment...tends to only recognize things within , and anything else outside of Italy is not really ‘Italian literature’—it’s just sort of ‘stuff.’ And we thought, you know what, there’s a lot of ‘stuff’ out there.”

Here I go! I showed up curious at the Italian Cultural Institute at Park Avenue, Thursday February 7, 2019. Hard copy in hands, I waited for Elena Favilli to sign my Italian copy of “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls”...

"I’m not a photographer, but I guess I’ve always been fascinated by images and by photography. I imagined that for Ezra it would not be that impossible to receive a camera for his bar mitzvah. He would have never received...

Perhaps the best-known figure of seventeenth-century Italy is Galileo Galilei. What is not as widely known, though, is that Galileo exchanged letters with natural philosopher and poet Margherita Sarrocchi. In Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in...

Dante navigates the afterlife by speaking with the persons that populate it, his interactions gradually shaping his concept of humanity and personhood. Souls in Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise appear not as physical embodiments of the persons they were in life,...

In "Italia. L'invenzione della patria," Fabio Finotti, Mariano DiVito chair in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, explores centuries of literature and cultural output in the Italian peninsula, tracing how the meaning of the term patria has been changing