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In anticipation of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, and on the Feast of the Annunciation, Pope Francis issued “Splendour of Light Eternal,” an apostolic letter calling Dante “supreme poet” and “prophet of hope and a witness to the innate yearning for the infinite present in the human heart.” The Holy Father added that he wished to join the popes before him in honoring and extolling the poet and “to propose him anew for the consideration of the Church, the great body of the faithful, literary scholars, theologians and artists.”…

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The D.S.U. of the University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway and Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, is delighted to renew its annual seminar dedicated to Francesco Petrarca. The aim of Laureatus in Urbe…

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Every country lives in the shadow of common places that have been created by years of history, movies, migrations, music and literature, popular culture and so on. The Rome Global Gateway’s new virtual series titled Espresso: A Shot of Unconventional Italy…

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Published in this Easter season, on the feast of the Annunciation (March 25), Pope Francis's Apostolic Letter, "Splendour of Light Eternal" (Candor Lucis aeternae) is a remarkable document, an exhortation to read, study, and teach Dante's Divine Comedy, and as Pope Francis writes, to become Dante's "companions on the journey." 

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The Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, in partnership with the Centre for Italian Studies, the Notre Dame Alumni Association, Campus Ministry…

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Ingrid D. Rowland, professor in Rome for the School of Architecture and Department of History, shot an exclusive documentary in English on the Basilica of Saint Clement - Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano.  Taking advantage of the closure to the public for COVID-19 regulations and thanks to the collaboration of the Reverend Father Stephen Hutchinson, prior to the Basilica, this documentary was made possible.…

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The University's Rome Global Gateway, in partnership with the Georgetown University Representative Office in Rome, has launched Catforumroma, a central calendaring platform for academic events organized by participating Catholic institutions.

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Domenico di Michelino - Dante and the Three Kingdoms, 1465 The Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, in partnership with the Center for Italian Studies and the Notre Dame Alumni Association…

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Notre Dame International, in collaboration with the Center for Italian Studies, is sponsoring two new postdoctoral fellowship at the Rome Global Gateway. The fellowships, one an internship in international education and the other a teaching position in the All Roads Lead to Rome…

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The Department of Rare Books & Special Collections has recently acquired the following items: Guido Cavalcanti. L'espositione del M.ro Egidio Colonna Romano degli eremitani, sopra la canzone d'amore di Guido Caualcanti Fiorentino…  Siena: Appresso Saluestro Marchetti, 1602. Guido Cavalcanti, with notes and translations by Ezra Pound. Rime…

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In an article published on September 30, 2020 in The Observer, Notre Dame's student newspaper, doctoral candidate in History, Susanna De Stradis, was interviewed about her research on the relationship between Catholicism and principles of American liberalism, which she is currently undertaking at the Vatican Archives.

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Ravarino Family Director of the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, Professor Theodore Cachey, has been invited to sit on the scientific committee for the 2021 Dante centenary organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture.

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This article is the twenty-third in a series of blog posts published by the Keough School of Global Affairs. Dignity and Development provides in-depth analysis of global challenges through the lens of integral human development.  The global coronavirus pandemic has tested and reshaped societies around the globe, including national and international refugee support systems. The reported experiences of refugees, volunteers and social workers convey how local communities can continue to support and integrate each other through messages of courage, trust, perseverance and kindness. These messages can strengthen the efforts to remain resilient despite the logistical challenges that quarantine has brought about. As Maurizio Albahari wrote in a recent blog post,…

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The Nanovic Institute for European Studies is pleased to share the story of Pietro Roberto Goisis, a Milan-based psychiatrist who survived coronavirus. Translated by Ingrid Rowland. 

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Listen to Italian Studies faculty affiliate, Prof. Barry McCrea, deliver a radio essay on teaching literature in a pandemic for Ireland's RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday Miscellany…

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Enrico Terrinoni, Full Professor Chair of English Literature at Università Per Stranieri di Perugia and a Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute in Fall 2019, writes about completing his new translation of James Joyce's Ulysses while in quarantine. The translation is a task he is undertaking in a country suffering greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic and in a city rendered eerily quiet by it.

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During this time of social distancing and restricted movement, of potential interest to affiliates of Notre Dame's Center for Italian Studies and other Italophiles is the New York Metropolitan Opera's schedule of streamed operas…

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Three weeks before Italy went on lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Rome Global Gateway (RGG) was preemptively taking drastic measures to protect its study abroad students, faculty, staff, and surrounding community. The RGG was the first study abroad program at the University of Notre Dame to witness and respond to what has since evolved into a global pandemic.…

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On March 17, 2020, Prof. Vittorio Hösle was interviewed (in Italian) by Fiorinda Li Vigni of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici) for its series on the COVID-19 pandemic, "Diario della crisi."

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Due to the new University policies and guidelines that have emerged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Italian Studies is cancelling all public events between now and April 13, as well as several others which involve scholars from the US, Italy, and across Europe who have been affected by the current global health crisis.

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