“ON BEING A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL ABROAD: HOW A HISTORY
BOOK SET OFF A NATIONAL DEBATE IN ITALY”

A Presentation by
Professor Spencer Di Scala
Author of

Filippo Turati. Le origini della democrazia in Italia

Hosted by: Hon. Liborio Stellino
Consul General of Italy

April 17, 2008

5:00-8:00 P.M. Campus Center, RM 3-3545

Sponsored by the Public History Program of the UMB History
Department
The History Department
The Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts

Refreshments Served

Flyer

TOURING ITALY

Is a film that lasts 60 minutes It shows Beautiful Naples, the Ruins of Pompei, Magnificent Venice, Hustling Milano, Renaissance Florence, Historic Bologna Shakespearean Verona, the spectacular Italian Riviera, the leaning Tower of Pisa and Roma ,the eternal city, with its towering monuments, the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, Piazza Navona , Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Spagna, Saint Peter's Basilica and
Hadrian'sVilla. All of this is portrayed with a wonderful narration and an equally wonderful cinematography.

Commentary to be provided by Franco Vitiello, Board of Governor of Dante Alighieri Society.

To complement the movie, there will be a wonderful exhibit of scenic photography of the many beautiful sights in Italy

Photos of the Feel of Giudecca (Venice) and of Rome will be shown by Louis H. Hamel, Jr., Esq., retired from the law firm of Wilmer Hale (formerly Hale and Dorr), an experienced amateur photographer with a love of Italy, especially Rome and Venice, who in April 2007 fell in love with the Island of Giudecca, its early morning sunrise haze a setting for a painter studying Palladio's S. Georgio Maggiorie, in front of La Zitelle (planned by Palladio), set between the sunset-facing S. Georgio and the dawn-facing Redentore, also by Palladio, with children off to school at the vaporetto stop, fruit and vegetable deliveries nearby on fhe Fondamenta, and the brisk sun-glancing busy-trafficed chop of the Giudecca Canal setting off the brilliant copper ball and weather-vane atop Canaletto's Dogana di Mare at the tip of Dorsoduro, across the sea-way, and the broad Zattere there inviting walks in the late afternoon.

Mr. Hamel grew up in Haverhill MA, in the Merrimack River Valley, and worked in the family tanning and industrial real estate businesses, had a short career as a Fordham graduate student and instructor in Philosophy at Manhattanville College before rejoining the family business and going to Harvard Law School ('69) and then beginning a career at Hale and Dorr where he chaired the Trusts and Estates Department and specialized also in Pensions and Exempt Organizations, for many years, and has been a student of Psychoanalysis for over 30 years, writing numerous articles in legal and other periodicals, some concentrating on "Psychoanalytic Critique of Estate Planning Techniques."

The photos to be exhibited were all taken with a small hand-held available-light Leica M8 rangefinder camera and Leica lenses.
 

In celebration of the Festa della Repubblica, there will be a concert at the Dante Alighieri Society on Friday evening, May 30th, at 7:30 p.m.

The Coro Dante, Kevin Galiè J.D., M.M., Musical Director/Conductor, will perform a selection of Italian music, including pieces by Verdi, Mozart, and Rossini, as well as traditional songs. They will be joined by operatic soloists and the Dante Alighieri's Children's Choir.

This event is free and open to the public.

Festa Della Repubblica flyer 2008

Il Caso Moro