Canceled Dante Bus Day Trip To Boston’s North End – CANCELLED
Westerly Senior Center 39 State St., Westerly, RI, United StatesThis trip has been cancelled as not enough reservations were received by the cut-off date.
Membership Meeting
Westerly Senior Center 39 State St., Westerly, RI, United StatesDante Society of Westerly: Membership Meeting Westerly Senior Center 39 State Street, Westerly Agenda
2022 Annual Anna Turrisi Cooking Demonstration
Calabrese Club 28 Pleasant Street, Westerly, RI, United StatesAfter a two-year pandemic interruption, The Dante Society of Westerly, RI will resume our tradition of hosting the annual Anna Turrisi Food Demonstration. The event will feature the culinary students from the Westerly High School demonstrating their cooking and serving skills.
Professor Michael Siefert: Lecture on Enrico Fermi, Physicist
Westerly Library Auditorium 44 Broad St, WesterlyEnrico Fermi was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. In this talk, Prof. Seifert will trace Fermi’s life from his youth as a mathematical prodigy in Rome, through his influential research and receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physics, to his emigration to the United States and his pivotal work on the Manhattan Project.
Membership Meeting
Westerly Senior Center 39 State St., Westerly, RI, United StatesDante Society of Westerly: Membership Meeting
Prof. Joseph Luzzi: “Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance”
Westerly Library Auditorium 44 Broad St, WesterlySome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, was commissioned to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
Ashley Turney: “Rome”
Westerly Library Auditorium 44 Broad St, WesterlyWe will dig into what makes Rome so unique through tales of its illustrious past and learn about the importance of an ancient city in a modern world.
Prof. Alfred Crudale: The Voices of Italy: Italian Language Newspapers and Radio Programs in Rhode Island
Westerly Library Auditorium 44 Broad St, WesterlyAlfred R. Crudale, Ph.D., a professor of Italian at the University of RI., is the author of “Love and Civitas: Dante’s Ethical Journey in the Vita Nuova.” His article “Versi d”Amore e Prose de Romanzi: Are the Poets of the Dolce Still Nuovo still Relevant?” was published in The International Journal of the Humanities, and his latest article “Canzone…t’ho alievato per figiliuola d”Amore: Three Songs of love in Dante’s Vita Nuova,” can be found in the Proceedings of the Dante and Music Conference. In this presentation, Dr. Crudale reflects upon his new book about Italian language newspapers and radio programs in Rhode Island. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Movie: “Paradiso”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesThe 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
General Membership Meeting March 2023
Westerly Senior Center 39 State St., Westerly, RI, United StatesNormal Business Meeting. Agenda to follow.
Prof. Peter Nightingale: The Life and Times of Galileo
Westerly Library Auditorium 44 Broad St, WesterlyGalileo's persecution by the Inquisition has often overshadowed his contributions to developing and legitimizing the scientific method. Peter Nightingale, Ph.D, theoretical physicist, the University of Rhode Island, shares thoughts about commonalities between Galileo and Albert Einstein; Galileo's motion experiment in relation to his and his family's musical background; Galileo's attempts to solve "that great problem of finding the longitude of a given place on the earth's surface"; and his explanation of factors limiting the size of land animals. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.