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The pleasure of reading in Italian: great literature at the Italian Embassy

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The pleasure of reading in Italian: great literature at the Italian Embassy

(April 6, 2017) Thursday, at the Embassy of Italy in Brasilia, is the day dedicated to the "pleasure of reading in Italian". This is the title of the event sponsored by the embassy, a series of lectures devoted to some of the most important authors of our contemporary literature. Inaugurating appointments, last March 30, "L’Amica Geniale" by Elena Ferrante. It continues on April 27 with "Io Non Ho Paura" by Niccolò Ammaniti; on May 25 with "Seta" by Alessandro Baricco; on June 29 with "Un mese con Montalbano" by Andrea Camilleri; on July 27 with "Il senso del dolore. L’inverno del commissario Ricciardi" by Maurizio De Giovanni; on August 31 with "Gomorra" by Roberto Saviano; on September 28 with "Spingere la notte più in là" Mario Calabresi; on October 26 with "Idi di Marzo" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi; on November 30 with "Una giornata nell’antica Roma" by Alberto Angela; on December 7 with "La fine è il mio inizio" by Tiziano Terzani ". (Red)


ABOUT / THE ITALIAN EMBASSY

Juscelino Kubitschek, President of the Republic from 1956 to 1961, realized what was written in the constitution of Brazil about the country's capital, building Brasilia on the plateau central. To the countries with which Brazil had diplomatic relations were given plots of land of equal size (25,000 m²) so they could build their embassies. The then Minister Counselor of the Embassy of Italy in Rio de Janeiro, Carlo Enrico Figlioli, chose in November of 1959 the lot 30 of the district number 807, Embassies South Sector. So it was built on that ground, one of the best because of the views on the area where it would have been created the Lake Paranoá, which at the time was still little more than a field of shrubs, the first symbolic construction: a small house for the guardian. The construction of the new headquarters of the Embassy were initiated in late 1966, when the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) moved from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia. Entrusted to Pier Luigi Nervi, the work was completed and handed over to Ambassador Maurizio Bucci in January 1977, with the results that we can appreciate today. The first official reception at the Embassy was held on June 2, 1977, Italian Republic Day.

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