Poetry, Prose and Potions November 2010
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This fall, Frank Ambrosio, Company co-Director, was
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invited to present a lecture on "The Heritage of Francesco DeSanctis." Part of the commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. The lecture series celebrating Desanctis, of which the Washington event marked the start, will travel to Embassies of Italy in France, Egypt, and Russia, before concluding in Rome. Frank's contribution considered the influence which DeSanctis, Italy's most important literary critic and the first to offer a unified vision of Italian literature as a whole, on the tradition of interpretation of Dante, especially The Divine Comedy. Frank shared the program with former American Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky, who read from his own translation of The Inferno, and with noted Italian stage and screen actress Anna Galiena, who did an interpretive of lectures reading of Inferno V , the Paolo and Francesca episode, in the original Italian.
 | Deborah Warin, Battista Sforza and the Court of Urbino lecture
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In her richly illustrated lecture presentation, Battista Sforza and the Court of Urbino, Deborah R. Warin, Company Director, spoke to a sold out audience about the Renaissance princess whose image, immortalized by Piero Della Francesca, has become iconic while her fascinating personal story and significant political and cultural influence has been largely forgotten. In her lecture, Deborah helped her listeners sort through the evidence gathered in her scholarly research in preparation for a first English biography of this memorable woman, uncovering a pattern that helps us understand why so accomplished an individual could so quietly recede from history's spotlight.
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