Literature
International conference explores links between two major Irish writers
This year’s annual James Joyce Italian Foundation conference in Rome on 2-3 February is entitled Yeats, Joyce and the Revival.
The inter...
The Anglo American Bookshop near the Spanish Steps presents a talk by TEDx speaker and author Rosalyn Kahn on 15 January at 17.30.
The Los Angeles writer will speak about the stories behind her book Random Acts of Kin...
The Anglo American Bookshop near the Spanish Steps presents a talk by TEDx speaker and author Rosalyn Kahn on 15 January at 17.30.
The Los Angeles writer will speak about the stories behind her book Random Acts of Kin...
Rome's Keats-Shelley House at the Spanish Steps is holding a book sale on Thursday 11 December from 18.30 until 20.00.
On sale will be a range of poetry, fiction, biography and history titles in both English and Itali...
The 13th edition of Piú Libri piú liberi, the national fair for small and medium Italian book publishing houses, offers a five-day literary programme of conferences, lectures, readings, theatre workshops, p...
A lecture at the American University of Rome examining whether early Hollywood, with its celluloid dreams and theme-park cemeteries, was the beginning of the end of the western humanist tradition.
Drawn to Los Angeles...
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this year's Italy Reads programme
John Cabot University in Rome has selected A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway as the subject of this year's Italy Reads, i...
Upcoming sale include vintage books
The S. Susanna Library, the English-language lending library in Rome, is holding its next sale of used books from 22-31 October.
The sale takes place during normal library hours:...
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio. Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
In this biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio, Lucy Hughes-Hallett retraces the life of one of the central figures of Italian history...
Author will be signing copies of her best-selling biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio
British cultural historian and biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett joins the Keats-Shelley House for an evening devoted to the charismatic...
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this year's Italy Reads programme
John Cabot University in Rome has selected A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway as the subject of this year's Italy Reads, i...
Poet Moira Egan and translator of poems Damiano Abeni give a bi-lingual poetry reading at St Stephen's Cultural Center on the evening of Wednesday 1 October.
Along with her husband Abeni, Egan will read from her lates...
Rome's Festival of Literature ends on 17 September with a tribute to the celebrated Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Entitled Ritratto allo specchio (Portrait in the Mirror) the event will see the Man Booker prize-win...
This interesting event, organised by the Italian Geographical Society and Federculture, is dedicated to the art of travel literature in its various forms: books, films, photographs, drama and comics.
The seventh editi...
Keats-Shelley House in Rome examines Browning's Italian connections
A temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House examines the time spent in Italy by celebrated English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-18...
Under the title Brendan Behan: rescuing the writer from the myth, this international conference will reassess the life and work of Brendan Behan, one of Ireland’s best known, most controversial, and least studied w...
John Cabot University's Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation presents a reading by Andrew Cotto on Wednesday 9 July from 18.30-20.00.
Cotto is the author of The Domino Effect and Outerborough Blues:...
Australian poet Michael Farrell will read some of his work in English, and Italian translations will also be read, at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 27 June at 17.00.
Farrell is the Australia Council BR Whiting Stu...
John Cabot University's Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation presents a reading by Charles Lambert on Wednesday 18 June from 18.30-20.00.
Lambert is the author of With a Zero at its Heart, an autobi...
Moved by Wonder
John Cabot University and its department of English language and literature celebrate the life and work of American writer Flannery O’Connor with a two-day symposium from 13-14 June.
O’C...
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