A lecture by dr. Toni Veneri, University of Trieste. Event in collaboration with the Società Dante Alighieri in Haifa.
Young Italian scholars travelling between East and West
Young Italian scholars travelling between East and West "SECOND CLASS" ITALY, IN PAOLO RUMIZ'S EYES – 2. HISTORICAL ROUTES, TEMPORAL PERIPHERIESA lecture by dr. Toni Veneri, University of Trieste.Event in collaboration with the Società Dante Alighieri in Haifa.Paolo Rumiz (Trieste, 1947), special correspondent for the paper "Piccolo"
and columnist for "La Repubblica", wrote a series of travel reportages
about a far less known Italy, abandoned by both tourists and its own
inhabitants. This second appointment on Rumiz's Italy will present a
Country, whose shared memories are fading away and whose historical
geography needs to be retold in order to appreciate again the rich
layering of its territory: from the ancient peripheral Italic riots
against the powerful Romans (the epic of Annibale. Un viaggio), to the
ideals of the Risorgimento and Garibaldi youth (the Independence wars
described in Camicie rosse), to the tragedies which marked the
Italian-Austrian front less than 100 years ago (La Grande guerra). Toni Veneri lives
in Trieste, where, after the archivist qualification (2009), he
obtained in 2011 his PhD in Italian Literature and was appointed
"cultore della materia" in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.
Besides acting as Director of the Istituto Gramsci del Friuli Venezia
Giulia, and working as a high school teacher (Literature, History,
Latin), he is currently completing his post-doctoral research at the
University of Haifa. His areas of interest overlap: the literary and
scientific construction of space in late Medieval and early modern
times; travel literature in its encounters with the history of
cartography, art, print and diplomacy; theoretical issues between
history and literature. Event held in Italian. Thursday, May 22th, 2014, at 19:00Italian Cultural Instituterehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa