June 23, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free Dear friends and members of the Dante, we are happy to invite you to our free online talk on Dante’s Divine Comedy, with Dr. Emma Barlow. On 23 June at 6 pm, simply click on this link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/97522122198. See you then! Add to calendar Details Date: June 23, 2020 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cost: Free Website: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/97522122198 Venue Zoom online talk

March 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Free POSTPONED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK 25 March 2020 will be the first DanteDì: a new national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri, the “father” of the Italian language. Dr. Emma Barlow, a Researcher with a deep knowledge of Dante, will talk us through this great genius of the Middle Ages. To make a booking, please send us an email with your name and surname at enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au. We look forward to seeing you there! Add to calendar Details Date: March 25, 2020 Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Cost: Free Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Woollahra Library 451 New South Head Road, Double Bay 2028

February 22, 2020 @ 3:00 pm Free Join us for a free event on Giuliano Guareschi at the Italian Forum in Leichhardt: see the flyer by clicking HERE. To book your seat, email us at enquires@dantealighieri.com.au . To see the event’s photos click HERE Add to calendar Details Date: February 22, 2020 Time: 3:00 pm Cost: Free Organisers Dante Alighieri Society Sydney NIAWA Venue Italian Forum 19-23 Norton Street, Leichhardt NSW 2040 Australia

November 25, 2019 @ 8:00 pm $100 Dear member and friends, we hope to see all of you on the 25th of November, for our end-of-the-year dinner! For more details, please see the invitation. Book as soon as possible with your name as a reference: see you then! [See the photos here] Add to calendar Details Date: November 25, 2019 Time: 8:00 pm Cost: $100 Event Category: Past Events Website: https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/76603161_2464714610464304_32434987429003264_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_oc=AQmGRERud_NoQAPceOBowy69c_s4cio51nm0obdNuk3oEXecFA3OQ6FrYa1OPYXl0yQ&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.xx&oh=49e07013dbba7c10985d2df21d6644fb&oe=5E43A9D9 Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Grappa Ristorante e Bar

November 15, 2019 @ 7:30 pm $15 Dear friends and members of the Dante, please join us on the 15th of November, 6:30 pm at St. Joseph’s Church Hall (12 Albert Street, Edgecliff), for a talk that journalist Yvette Alberti Devlin will deliver on Aldo Giurgola, the well-known Italian academic and architect who designed the new Australian parliament building. To make a booking, please complete a $15 bank transfer: Dante Alighieri Society, BSB 062 032 – account no. 28020681 (reference: Devlin + your surname). We look forward to seeing you there! Add to calendar Details Date: November 15, 2019 Time: 7:30 pm Cost: $15 Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue St. Joseph Church Hall 12 Albert Street, Edgecliff NSW 2027

October 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm Free Dear members and friends of the Dante, we are pleased to present a free event that will take place on the 23rd of October at the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney (6 pm), in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society Sydney. Prof. Rodney Lokaj will talk about the origins of Italian theatre, between the sacred and the profane. To book your seat, please click here. Wee look forward to seeing you there! Add to calendar Details Date: October 23, 2019 Time: 7:00 pm Cost: Free Event Category: Past Events Website: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/at-the-origins-of-italian-theatre-between-the-sacred-and-the-profane-tickets-70225894541?utm_campaign=postpub&utm_medium=em&utm_source=sm&utm_content=viewevent Organisers Italian Cultural Institute Sydney Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Venue Italian Cultural Institute Sydney Level 4, 125 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 - Australia

October 15, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm $15 Dear friends and members of the Dante, on the 15th of October architect Richard Mann, director of Ecosystems Architecture, will talk about the Roman Empire and its influence over the contemporary biophilic urbanism. The relative completeness of recorded material, over the nominal thousand year time frame of the ancient Roman world, is proving to have significant relevance for appreciating trends in contemporary urban life. To make a booking, please complete this bank transfer: Dante Alighieri Society, BSB 062 032 – account no. 28020681 (reference: Mann + your surname). We look forward to seeing you there! Add to calendar Details Date: October 15, 2019 Time: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Cost: $15 Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Woollahra Council Bay Room Cosmopolitan Centre (level 1), 2-22 Knox Street, Double Bay

September 24, 2019 @ 6:00 pm $15 Dear friends and members of the Dante, on the 24th of September Dr. Benedetta Brevini – Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Sydney – will talk about how post-truth politics has progressively dominated media and political discourses. Dr. Brevini will delve into specific Australian instances, concerning climate change, the Adani Carmichael mine, and how they have been framed in public discourses. To make a booking, please complete this bank transfer: Dante Alighieri Society, BSB 062 032 – account no. 28020681 (reference: Brevini + your surname). We look forward to seeing you there! Add to calendar Details Date: September 24, 2019 Time: 6:00 pm Cost: $15 Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Woollahra Library 451 New South Head Road, Double Bay 2028

August 22, 2019 @ 6:30 pm $10 Dear friends and members of the Dante, we are pleased to announce that, on Thursday the 22nd of August, a special talk on Leonardo da Vinci will take place. Dr. Katharine Blake, a historian specialised in Renaissance studies, will sort fact from invented legend while trying to answer the question, how did he do so much in lifetime? As the world’s most renown polymath, a conference on the genius of Leonardo da Vinci will surely entertain you on many levels. Thursday, 22nd August @ 6:30 pm St. Joseph Church Hall 12 Albert Street, Edgecliff NSW 2027 A free contribution of $10.00 will be appreciated Light refreshments to follow The talk will be in English Bookings is essential! Direct Debit: Acc. Dante Alighieri Society, BSB 062 032 Acc. 28020681 Reference: Leonardo and surname Add to calendar Details Date: August 22, 2019 Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $10 Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue St. Joseph Church Hall 12 Albert Street, Edgecliff NSW 2027

March 1, 2018 @ 5:30 am - 6:30 am A talk by Australian economist and author Bruce Bland on celebrated architect Francesco Borromini, a leading figure in the emergence of Baroque architecture and a legendary rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Add to calendar Details Date:March 1, 2018Time:5:30 am - 6:30 amEvent Category:Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri SydneyPhone:02 92830261Email:enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue St. Joseph’s Church Hall12 Albert Street Edgecliff, NSW 2027 Australia

March 25, 2018 @ 5:00 am - 6:30 am William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was notoriously fascinated with Italy and set several of his plays there. Some even claim he lived in Italy and was an Italian himself. Poet Mark O’Connor brings several of these strands together in a rare public address on this topic. Mark O’Connor is a very well known Australian poet, Shakespeare and English poetry scholar, and environmentalist. Details Date: March 25, 2018 Time: 5:00 am - 6:30 am Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue St. Joseph’s Church Hall 12 Albert Street Edgecliff, NSW 2027 Australia

April 6, 2018 @ 5:30 am - 8:00 am Literary historian Susannah Fullerton delighted us in August with a talk on why Italy has been such a magnet to writers over the centuries. Details Date: April 6, 2018 Time: 5:30 am - 8:00 am Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Club Marconi 259 Riley St Surry Hills 2010, NSW 2010 Australia

April 8, 2018 @ 12:00 am - 2:00 am A presentation by a delegation of the city of Foligno of a faithful replica of the first printed edition in 1472 of the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri. On April 11th 1472, the city of Foligno (Umbria region) saw the first ever printed edition of Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia. The printing was carried out by the master printer Johann Numeister, a pupil of Gutenberg, with the collaboration of the Foligno minter Emiliano Orfini. Why exactly in Foligno? What kind of process, printing style and characters were used? What were the characteristics of the paper that guaranteed durability over the years? What were the illustrations like? The talk examined the early establishment of printing in Umbria, exploring the reasons of its emergence in Foligno, leading to the production of the Editio Princeps of Dante’s masterpiece. Add to calendar Details Date: April 8, 2018 Time: 12:00 am - 2:00 am Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Dante Alighieri School level 3 suite 38 104 Bathurst Street, Sydney Australia

April 27, 2018 @ 4:00 am - 5:30 am No appreciation of Italian language and culture could be complete without an understanding of historic Rome and the ways of the ancient Romans. The extremely-rich archaeology of Rome provides extensive information on how the ancient Romans lived, governed, and made community decisions on their civic and private amenities. Richard Mann is a Sydney-based architect with extensive international experience. His practice at Ecosystem Architecture employs principles of design and building that have foundations in Roman times and beyond. Richard has studied the buildings of ancient Rome, focusing on the human aspects; the people who drew up the plans, arranged permissions and resources, did the construction and made use of these buildings for more than a thousand years. In his presentation, Richard explained how the old stones and cement (opus caementicium) of Rome yield up secrets of the past, inspire contemporary society and enrich our appreciation of modern Italy. Details Date: April 27, 2018 Time: 4:00 am - 5:30 am Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Phone: 92830261 Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue St. Joseph’s Church Hall 12 Albert Street Edgecliff, NSW 2027 Australia

April 27, 2018 @ 4:30 am - 6:30 am Dr. Alice Loda, a Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, talked about immigrants’ poetry in Italy. Traditionally a country of emigration, over the past four decades it also increasingly became one of destination and transit. Her talk described the progressive emerging of migrant voices in contemporary Italian literature, and explored their positioning within the relevant literary debate. It then presented and analysed a selection of works produced in Italian by authors born in non-Italophone countries, focusing in particular on poetry writing and on literary collectives. Details Date: April 27, 2018 Time: 4:30 am - 6:30 am Event Category: Past Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Dante Alighieri School level 3 suite 38 104 Bathurst Street, Sydney Australia

May 18, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $20 Vice-president Concetta Cirigliano Perna spoke about the wonderful city of Matera, 2019 European Capital of Culture, while actress Bianca Bonino read some excerpts from “Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli” and “L’uva Puttanella”. Details Date: May 18, 2018 Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Cost: $20 Event Categories: Past Events, Society Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au

November 14, 2018 @ 8:00 pm - November 15, 2018 @ 12:30 am The Dante Alighieri Society Sydney end-of-the-year party 2018! Over 150 guests made this year’s party a memorable one, thank you all! Details Start: November 14, 2018 @ 8:00 pm End: November 15, 2018 @ 12:30 am Event Categories: Past Events, Society Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au Venue Grappa Ristorante e Bar

December 16, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm l Porcellino is the bronze statue that graces Macquarie Street at the entrance of the Old Sydney Hospital. The statue, surprisingly not known to many sydneysiders, was donated to the City of Sydney by the Marchioness Clarissa Fiaschi Torrigiani on 16 December 1968 in memory of her father, Dr. Tommaso Fiaschi. Dr. Fiaschi was an extraordinary gentleman who in 1896 founded the Dante Alighieri Society Sydney, but he is also and maybe better known as a surgeon who introduced sterilisation techniques to Australia, as a member of the medical core of the Australian army during the Boer War, and during the WWI in which achieved the rank of general. He also served in the Italian army during that war. One additional achievement was the establishment of a vineyard “Tizzana” on the Hawkesbury River with cuttings he brought from France and Germany. The vineyard is still active, albeit in different hands. The 16th of December marks the 50th anniversary of the placement of the statue of Il Porcellino, as it is known, in Macquarie Street and the descendants of Dr. Fiaschi celebrated the event with a well attended ceremony in the courtyard of the Old Sydney Hospital. Mr. Jim Robertson, a Sydney great great grandson of Dr. Fiaschi, reunited several members of the family, some had not seen each other for many years and had arrived from Italy, in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Sydney, Mrs. Linda Scott who welcomed the guests and relatives of Dr. Fiaschi. Present were Mr. Lanfranco Secco Suardo from Bergamo, Tom Yates, Nigel McCarthy who narrated recollections of the family and Fabio Carosone, president of the Dante Alighieri Society Sydney, who introduced a brief history of the Society and the present condition of the learning of the Italian language in Australia and, in particular, in Sydney. After refreshments and appetisers, a cake with the image of Il Porcellino was cut by Jim and the deputy mayor Linda Scott and enjoyed by all. All the guests then assembled by the Porcellino for photos and coin donations to the statue. Details Date: December 16, 2018 Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Categories: Italian SYD Events, Past Events, Society Events Organiser Dante Alighieri Society Sydney Email: enquiries@dantealighieri.com.au

August 15, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm Free Dear members and friends of the Dante, we invite you to join us on this meaningful occasion! The Dante Alighieri Society Sydney will donate its precious copy of the Divina Commedia – The Divine Comedy – to the University of Sydney, which has organised a special event to celebrate this donation. On 15 August 2019, from 4 to 6:30 pm, come and meet us at the Fisher Library, where Prof. Nerida Newbigin and Dr. Francesco Borghesi will entertain us with a tailored talk. The event is free and open to everyone. For further information, either contact us or Dr. Borghesi. Details Date: August 15, 2019 Time: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm Cost: Free Event Categories: Italian SYD Events, Past Events, Society Events Website: https://slc-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/inspired-giving-dante-collection-university-of-sydney-library Organisers Dante Alighieri Society Sydney University of Sydney Venue Fisher Library, room 218 – University of Sydney Fisher Library (F03), Eastern Ave, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2006