The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present Annalisa Andreoni’s conference “La lingua dell’amore e la lingua della beffa, la lingua dell’arte, della musica e della scienza: l’italiano degli scrittori” (The language of love and mockery, the language of art, music and science: Italian of writers ) 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“. During the conference the Director of the Institute, Francesco D’Arelli, and Professor Dario Brancato from Concordia University will discuss with Mrs. Andreoni about the main arguments exposed. The conference is organized under high patronage of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and in collaboration with Concordia University.
Thursday, October 18th 2018, 6:40 pm
Italian Cultural Institute
1200, Dr. Penfield Avenue
Montreal
Free Entrance
The Italian language has eight centuries of history. It is able to express all kinds of feelings and contents, from love to hate, from joke to tirade. Poets and writers have almost created a “language of love”, a “language of mockery”, a “language of tirade”, and so on. Through the centuries Italian has been : the language of art, represented by Leonard and other Renaissance artists, the language of science represented by Galileo and the language of music, with opera. The aim of this conference is to show the highlights of Italian secular history.
Annalisa Andreoni is associate professor of Italian Litterature at the IULM University in Milan. In 1995 she graduated from Classic Letters at the University of Pisa and there she got her doctorate in Italianist Studies in 2001. She was a scholar at the University of Zurich 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 the journal Nuova Rivista di Letteratura Italana and the collection Alla giornata. Studi e testi di letteratura italiana. Furthermore, she is a 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 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.
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