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A Professional sommelier, will present Vini D’Italia.  Sample some incredible Italian wines while learning the basics of how to identify and appreciate different varieties Admission is $50 per person.

Australia’s Hottest Export Makes His Staten Island Debut. Tickets: $50 per person. Refreshments including wine and light fare will be served. Seating limited for this special engagement so please reserve early. Parking available directly across the street in the lots at Notre Dame Academy.

Round-Table on Arturo Giovannitti, labor activist, union organizer, poet, on the 110th anniversary of his arrival in the United States. Some of Giovannitti's writings include: Arrows in the Gale (1914); Parole e sangue (1938); Quando canta il gallo (1957); and Collected Poems (1962).
 

A great master of Italian poetry, the Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale is a poet of truly universal standing. His noble poetic language, rooted into the Italian tradition but also open to European and American stimuli, modern and profound, expresses in an astonishingly rich and diverse texture the condition of modernity, swinging between life and death, anguish and compassion. On February 15th, selected poems by Montale will be read by distinguished poets and literary critics.

A great master of Italian poetry, the Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale is a poet of truly universal standing. His noble poetic language, rooted into the Italian tradition but also open to European and American stimuli, modern and profound, expresses in an astonishingly rich and diverse texture the condition of modernity, swinging between life and death, anguish and compassion. On February 15th, selected poems by Montale will be read by distinguished poets and literary critics.

Literary criticism relating to the Jewish Holocaust, or Shoah, has been a distinct feature of intellectual culture at the turn of this past century. As S. Lillian Kremer notes, however, "Holocaust historiography and literary criticism, like virtually every aspect of Western civilization, has typically been male-centered.

There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume (Anti-Italianism. Essays on a Prejudice, Italian and Italian American Series, Palgrave, McMillan, 2010; Edited by William Connell and Fred Gardaphè,)  is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the historical and cultural boundaries of stereotypes, prejudice, and assimilation.

 
Ron, byname of Rosalino Cellamare (born August 13, 1953) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician.

Born in Dorno, province of Pavia, he debuted under his true name at the 1970 edition of the Sanremo Festival, together with Nada. In the following years he distinguished as songwriter for Lucio Dalla and others.

For the fourth appointment with "Adventures in Italian Opera", Fred Plotkin invites on stage legendary soprano Aprile Millo, a regular star at the Metropolitan Opera since her debut in 1984 and one of the foremost exponents of the Italian soprano repertory.

 The first complete translation of Stampa into English, this volume collects all of her passionate and lyrical verse. It is also the first modern critical edition of her poems, and in restoring the original sequence of the 1554 text, it allows readers the opportunity to encounter Stampa as she intended. Jane Tylus renders Stampa?s verse in precise and graceful English translations, allowing a new generation of students and scholars of poetry, Renaissance literature, and music history to rediscover this incipiently modern Italian poet.

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Jane Tylus (NYU)