Friday 6 February 2015 from 18:00 to 19:00: Debate with Rocco Femia, Pierre Cadars and Marc Lazar on the occasion of the publication of books : "The Verdi homelands" and "Italian Resistance" Editions Editalieorganise in conjunction with the Symposium Ritals - stories of emigration, the 7-8 February 2015.
Rocco Femia is Publisher and journalist, founder of the editions EDITALIE and Director of the Franco-Italian bilingual magazine RADICI. He is the author of several publications : Heart open (New city, 1994), At the heart of the roots and men (2007), Italians 150 years of emigration in France and elsewhere (2011).
He worked also regularly with the most important Italian and french newspapers.
Marc Lazar is Professor at the Institute of political studies in Paris as well as at the Luiss in Rome. Recognized expert of the Italy and the West European left, He has published numerous books on Western communism and the contemporary Italy.
Pierre Cadars, cinema and music specialist, former Director of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, regularly publishes in the journal Radici.
“The Verdi homelands”: Through the pages of this book dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), you will discover the route traversed by the great Italian composer throughout his life. A true invitation to travel, famous native Emilia-Romagna in the major Italian theaters where it went, passing by the Paris Opera, England and the Egypt. You are going to meet the man who passed through disappointments, chess and bereavements, before becoming the iconic musician of a United Italy. This book is neither quite a historical work, neither quite a tourist guide, but a mixture of the two. It is a book about the Verdi homelands, offering a constant back and forth between past and present, Thanks to many information about the tourist opportunities today these places, whether they are famous or more intimate, and that you can visit yourself.
“Italian resistance”: Turin, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Bologna or Genoa, but also the winding paths of the Piedmontese Alps, the villages lost in the Carnia, the marble quarries of Tuscany ; formerly abandoned farms partisan bases, the factories idle seats first labor strikes, the buildings of periphery theatres of clandestine meetings or sinister rooms of torture. Here we are at the scene of the Resistance in Northern Italy, in the footsteps of supporters, famous or anonymous, who opposed the German occupation after the signing of the armistice by the Badoglio Government in 1943.
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