Literature
Book sale at S. Susanna library
Library invites new members and volunteers.
6-27 April. The S. Susanna Library, the English-language lending library in Rome, is appealing for new members and volunteers as it announces its latest...
Poetry consultations at the Keats-Shelley House
12 March. Award-winning poet Moira Egan is offering poetry consultations at Keats-Shelley House on Saturday 12 March, from 10.00-18.00.
Aspiring poets will be expertly guided through imagery, rhym...
Shakespearean Joyce Joycean Shakespeare
2-3 Feb. In 2016 a global series of celebrations marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist...
14-15 Jan. Rome conference marks the centenary of Ireland's Easter Rising.
Easter or rather the events to commemorate and study the Easter 1916 Rising will come early to Rome. The centenary of the...
4-8 Dec. The 14th edition of Piú libri piú liberi, the national fair for small and medium Italian book publishing houses, offers a five-day literary programme of conferences, lectures, readings, theat...
10 mg by Maria Teresa Berardelli
1 Dec. The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Rome's John Cabot University presents 10 mg by Maria Teresa Berardelli on 1 December at 19.00.
Rome’s leading English-language...
Barry McCrea book launch in Rome
Barry McCrea, professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Notre Dame, presents his new book: Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-...
Annika Milisic-Stanley at Open Door Bookshop
20 Nov. The Open Door Bookshop presents a reading and book-signing of The Disobedient Wife by Annika Milisic-Stanley on Friday 20 November at 19.00.
Organisers say that guests can enjoy a glass of...
27 Oct. The St Stephen’s Cultural Centre Foundation presents a bi-lingual (English and Italian) poetry reading with Charles Simic, the 2007 US Poet Laureate, on Tuesday 27 October at 19.00.
Simic i...
New and used book festival at S. Susanna Library
21 Oct-4 Nov. Prices at library's book sale begin at 50 cent.
The S. Susanna Library, Rome's English-language lending library, is holding a new and used book festival from 21 October until 4 Novemb...
Italy Reads at Rome's John Cabot University
23 Sept-1 April. John Cabot University in Rome has selected The Bluest Eye by Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison as the subject of this year’s Italy Reads, its annual community-based En...
InVerse - Italian Poets in Translation
16 Sept. John Cabot University presents the tenth edition of InVerse - Italian Poets in Translation at 20.00 on Wednesday 16 September.
Founded in 2005 by JCU professors Brunella Antomarini, Bereni...
Festival della Letteratura di Viaggio
11-13 Sept. This interesting festival is dedicated to the art of travel literature in its various forms: books, films, photographs, drama and blogs, and is organised by the Italian Geographical Societ...
9-30 June. Rome's Festival of Literature takes place in two locations this year — Piazza del Campidoglio and Casa delle Letterature —from 9-30 June.
The popular initiative celebrates the written wo...
Book sale at S. Susanna Library
Prices at book sale begin at 50 cent.
The S. Susanna Library, the English-language lending library in Rome, is holding its next sale of used books from 17-23 June. The sale takes place on Wednesday...
Kevin Brophy at John Cabot University
26 May. John Cabot University presents a reading by the award-winning Australian writer Kevin Brophy on 26 May, from 18.30-20.00.
Currently writer-in-residence at the Australia Council B. R. Whitin...
11-25 May. Literature festival dedicated to eight classics by great South American writers of the 20th century.
The evenings last about an hour each, beginning with a brief biographical introducti...
Poet David Starkey reads at John Cabot University
14 April. The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Rome’s John Cabot University presents a poetry reading by David Starkey, on Tuesday 14 April from 18.30-20.00.
Among the col...
The Keats-Shelley House in Rome presents Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field, a talk by Catherine Maxwell, on Thursday 26 March at 18.30.
A significa...
Inspired by Italy - The Romantic Poets in Song
A concert for the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 28 May at 19.30 at S. Maria del Priorato in the Aventino district of Rome.
A rare opportunity to experience a suite of songs which together attest...
