Italian Language and Literature

CAFFÈ LETTERARIO Book Club  With special guest, author Donatella Di Pietrantonio CAFFÈ LETTERARIO, is the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco virtual book club. It gives you the opportunity to meet new friends who share your interest in the Italian language and literature.The third book to read and discuss is Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s Borgo Sud. We’ll have the privilege […]

New Italian Books is the site that promotes Italian publishing, language and culture in the world. It’s bilingual, and aimed at Italian and foreign publishers, literary agents, translators, Italianists, Italian cultural institutes, Italians abroad, and all literature lovers.​ With the goal of encouraging Italian publishing production in the world, and facilitating the translation process of the latest […]

Join “Caffe Letterario – Portland” for a discussion with author and Professor Maddalena Marinari about her new book Unwanted. About this Event Dr. Marinari joined the history department at Gustavus Adolphus College in the fall semester of 2015. She teaches a broad range of courses on twentieth-century U.S. history, immigration history, American identity, U.S. in […]

With Special guest writer Marinette Pendola Born in Tunis to parents of Sicilian origin, Marinette Pendola writes about history, customs and traditions of the Italian community of Tunisia, a diaspora resulting from migrations in the Mediterranean region. The North African country has long been at the center of her studies and writing and in her […]

Certification of Italian Language at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco offers, twice a year, the opportunity to take the official exams for the Certification of Italian Language (CELI) managed by the Università per Stanieri di Perugia at the headquarters of the Institute itself. Exam dates for […]