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SUMMARY:2025 Italian Language: True Beginner (1)
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning Italian?  Have you never taken any classes in Italian\, or it was so long back that you feel you need to start again?  A basic introduction to Italian may be a good way to start.  In line with promoting and fostering the community’s awareness of Italian culture\, the society is pleased to support Italian language classes.   This session is for persons who have no prior knowledge of Italian\, or otherwise wish to start at the beginning.  They are looking to learn the basics – present tense of verbs\, basic vocabulary like telling time\, days of the week\, understanding directions. \nThis session consists of (6) 1.5 hr classes\, from March 27 through May 1\, meeting at 6:30 every Thursday at the Westerly Senior Center. \nClasses are open to the public\, with approval of the instructor\, and cost $130 for the session. \nSociety members\, in good standing before the first day of class\, are eligible for a discount. \nAdditional information on the Italian language classes may be found here:  Italian Lessons Information \nFor questions and enrollment\, please email the instructor: italianlessons@dantesocietywesterly.org
URL:https://dantesocietywesterly.org/event/2025-italian-language-true-beginner-1/
LOCATION:Westerly Senior Center\, 39 State St.\, Westerly\, RI\, 02891\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "My Life With Dante: A Tale of Two Books"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Joseph Luzzi presents “My Life With Dante: A Tale of Two Books” \n\nHow does an 700-year-old writer still resonate in this moment? Please join us for an event that will explore the ongoing fascination of the great Italian poet and philosopher Dante\, as Bard professor Joseph Luzzi connects Dante’s status today as a global literary icon to the debates about him in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. While writing his two latest books\, Luzzi noted an unexpected dialogue that ensued between the works: Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, November 2024) and his translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova (Norton/Liveright\, December 2024). He will talk about translation as both a practice and a metaphor\, the often-overlooked power of storytelling in scholarly works\, and the uncanny ability of literature to represent a kind of home to the severely displaced and even persecuted. \nJoseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer\, teacher\, and scholar of Italian culture. His recent book\, Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. \n\nNote: Unless specifically noted as being streamed or recorded\, the lectures in the lecture series hosted by the Dante Society of Westerly are live events only and are not recorded. They are neither streamed online nor available afterwards as recordings. \nLectures are free and open to the public. \n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park.
URL:https://dantesocietywesterly.org/event/lecture-my-life-with-dante-a-tale-of-two-books/
LOCATION:Westerly Library Auditorium\, 44 Broad St\, Westerly\, 02891
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