The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present Annalisa Andreoni’s conference “Amare l’italiano. Dalla tradizione all’oggi le ragioni di una passione” (Loving Italian. Reasons of passion from the tradition until nowadays) during the XVIII Week of the Italian Language in the World. The theme for the week of the Italian language of 2018 is “L’italiano e la rete, le reti per l’italiano“. The conference is organized under high patronage of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and in cooperation with the École de Langues de l’Université Laval, Quebec.
Tuesday, October 16th, 7:45pm
Université Laval
École de Langues
J-A. De Sève Pavilion, Room 1121, 7pm
1025 Avenue des Sciences Humaines
Québec
Free entrance
Italian is a well-loved language both by native speakers and by those who study it carefully and passionately as a foreign language. The aim of this conference is to display the historical and cultural reasons that made Italian one of the most loved languages in the world.
Annalisa Andreoni is associate professor of Italian Literature at the IULM University in Milan. In 1995 she graduated from Classic Letters at the University of Pisa, where she also got her doctorate degree in Italian Studies in 2001. She was a University of Zurich scholar between 1999 and 2000 and Fellow at “Villa I Tatti“, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence between 2007 and 2008. Since 1998 she has taken part to a number of national and international conference as speaker or organizer. She is co-director of both Nuova Rivista di Letteratura Italana and the collection Alla giornata. Studi e testi di letteratura italiana. Furthermore, she is member of the Società italiana di Studi sul secolo Diciottesimo (Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) and of the Associazione degli Italianisti (Italianist Association). Mrs. Andreoni’s scientific studies focus on the literature and culture of the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment and recently, on the Italian literature in the digital era too. She wrote plenty of essays and the books: Omero italico. Favole antiche e identità nazionale tra Vico e Cuoco (Jouvence, 2003); V. Cuoco, Platone in Italia. Traduzione dal greco, (Laterza, 2006 e 2013); La via della dottrina. Le lezioni accademiche di Benedetto Varchi, (ETS, 2012); Esercizi di lettura per Marco Santagata (Il Mulino, 2017). Her last book Ama l’italiano. Segreti e meraviglie della lingua più bella, (PIEMME, 2017) has been considered a real success by both public and press.