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Camões and the Slave Bárbora: Canon, Beauty, and Skin Colour

March 10, 2026

Speakers:

Rita Marnoto

Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of Camões’s Birth

Toni, My Father screening with Q&A

March 9, 2026

Speakers:

Anna Negri, Meghan Sutherland (University of Toronto)

Register for free tickets

Il Dizionario delle collocazioni: Le parole per dirlo

February 19, 2026

Speakers:

Paola Tiberii

Collocations are natural combinations of words that regularly occur together in a language and are acquired through repeated use rather than throug

Engraving from 1650 showing a detailed section of the frontispiece of Giovanni Filippo Tomasini, featuring decorative elements typical of the period.

Petrarch’s Sisters: History and (Fake) Women’s Literature in Early Modern Italy

February 5, 2026

Speakers:

Prof. Laura Ingallinella

This talk traces the long and curious life of a woman who never existed.

Meet Gianna Patriarca: Reading, Conversation, and Book Signing

January 20, 2026

Speakers:

Gianna Patriarca, Paolo Frascà

Join us for an exciting reading and book signing event with internationally acclaimed and award-winning author Gianna Patriarca, introduced by and

What makes a controversial comparison? Alba de Céspedes, the 1968 Insurrections and the Cuban Revolution

January 15, 2026

Speakers:

Dr. Elisa Segnini

This talk focuses on the Italian-Cuban writer Alba de Céspedes (1911- 1997) and her collection of poems about the 1968 Parisian insurrection: C

Abstract drawing by Lorna Goodison for Inferno, featuring a partially visible human face rendered in muted gray and beige washes.

Translation, Adaptation, Tradaptation: On Lorna Goodison’s Jamaican Inferno

January 7, 2026

Speakers:

Prof. Elizabeth Coggeshall

When we see contemporary creatives engage with old texts, we might imagine that they do so with one of two divergent approaches in mind: either the

Il Disastro di Pavia Revisited: Lecture with Professor Franco Pierno

February 3, 2026

Speakers:

Professor Franco Pierno

Join us for a celebration of literature with an evening of poetry and music.

Erich Auerbach and Literary History

November 20, 2025

Speakers:

Guido Mazzoni

Luca Somigli, Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, cordially invites you to a public lecture by Guido Mazzoni.

Coming to Terms with Columbus, Caboto and Other Colonial Myths

November 21, 2025

The Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections Project at the University of Toronto cordially invite you to this online event

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