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Andrew Spannaus explains us Donald Trump's success: "The élites can't manage the country without having to listen to the 'ignorant' people. It’s not enough to be politically correct, without addressing the deeper currents fueling the protest."

Two months after the passing of renowned essayist and novelist, literary critic, philosopher, and semiotician, the Italian Cultural Institute hosts a conversation to commemorate Umberto Eco, Italian polymath

Valeria Finucci, author of The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (Harvard University Press, 2015), sits down with Amelia Linsky (PhD student in Italian Studies at Harvard University) to discuss how Vincenzo Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua, changed the Western...

The title of Douglas Biow's latest book encapsulates it perfectly well: On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). While reviving a studied consideration of the individual...

For centuries, Siena served as a place for pilgrims to rest their heads, yet its own people, beauty, and innovation have remained unheralded. What is it, then, about this Tuscan city that so enchants? Jane Tylus, professor of Italian and...

Could the renewal of a a legal system that is the relic of an outdated worldview be the solution for many of the global crises the world is facing? Professor Mattei (Hastings College of Law) talks about his recent book,The...

Ask not what Dante did for his times, ask what his times did for him. Cecily Cai, a graduate student in comparative literature at Harvard, interviews Lino Pertile on the recent book that he presented at the De Bosis Colloquium...

In Mario Perniola’s book L’arte espansa, published by Einaudi, the world of art appears in an expanded and less definite form. In the length of barely a hundred pages the author attempts to address the fundamental questions of contemporary art...

Despite an initial aversion by the Jewish community, today Archie Rand's book "The 613" is appreciated by Jewish, Muslims, Christians, atheists and agnostics for its usable language that overtakes any religious prejudice

A cultured and insatiable scholar, for me Eco was always that eternal youth who combined boundless erudition with an inexhaustible curiosity for the world. We met because of America, and I would have liked to have invited him again to...