(10 May 2017) "Echoes of a lost voice" is the result of a twelve-year friendship between journalist Gabriella Poli and Primo Levi: a volume composed not only drawing from recorded interviews and conversations throughout the writer's career - even in the most unthinkable places - but mostly thanks to private conversations with the author, lasting many years before his death in 1987. The book was published five years later in 1992, making it one of the first testimonies of Levi's life and work. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Primo Levi and of the first English edition of "Echoes of a Lost Voice" by Gabriella Poli and Giorgio Calcagno, the Italian Institute of Culture in London organised a talk commemorate the great author from Turin with Carole Angier (author of a biography of Primo Levi - "The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography" and the editor of "Echoes of a Lost Voice"), Robert Gordon (Professor of Italian at Cambridge University), Anthony Rudolf (Writer, translator and founder of Menard Press and the first editor of Primo Levi's poems in English) and Sue Vice (Professor of Literature and Holocaust Studies at the University of Sheffield). The conference is on Monday, May 15 from 19:00 to 21:00. (Red)

IN THE FRONT LINE FOR ITALIAN CULTURE SINCE 1950

In 1949, the Duke of Westminster grants Duke Gallarati Scotti, Italian Ambassador, 39 Belgrave Square to establish the seat of the Italian Institute of Culture. Since its inauguration in June 1950, leadership of the Institute went to Count Umberto Morra of Lavriano, Guido Calogero, Gabriele Baldini, Filippo Donini, Mario Montuori, Alessandro Vaciago, Francesco Villari, Benedetta Bini, Mario Fortunato, Pierluigi Barrotta, and Caterina Cardona. Since July 2015, Marco Delogu became the new director. The Institute has frequently invited personalities of great importance both in the Italian and British cultural world. For example, in 1964 T.S. Eliot held a conference on Dante and in 1986 Primo Levi spoke on "From the Lab to the Writer's Desk", among others. Among those who have collaborated with the Institute are: Italo Calvino, Mario Soldati, Umberto Eco, Antonia S. Byatt, Piero Dorazio, Achille Perilli, Fabio Mauri, Carlo Maria Giulini, Luciano Berio, Luciana Serra, Zubin Mehta, Graziella Sciutti, Alberto Zedda, Sylvano Bussotti, Renata Scotto, Ruggero Raimondi, the Taviani brothers, Ferruccio Soleri and many more.