FREE
Wednesday, 10 September
Visit: Walk in the Historic Center of Florence
Meet at 14.40 in front of the school in Via Faenza. Sign up at the administrative office (Department of Art and Italian Language) by Tuesday, 9 September. Maximum 25 participants.
Thursday, 11 September
Visit: Florentine Gelateria
Meet at 16.30 in front of the school in Via Faenza. Cost: € 3,00 , which includes the visit/tour of the gelateria, two flavors of gelato, and informational materials. Sign up and pay at the administrative office (Department of Art and Italian Language) by Wednesday, 10 September. Minimum 6 participants.
FREE
Friday, 12 September
Seminar: “Italian Geographyâ€
Meet at 12.45 in Classroom E
Monday, 15 September
Wine Tasting
Meet at 12.45 in the Wine Room (Aula Vini) in Via Faenza, 69. Cost: € 7,00, which includes wine tasting, cheese, presentation of the most important Italian wines. Sign up and pay at the administrative office (Department of Art and Italian Language) by Friday, 12 September. Maximum 15 participants.
FREE
Monday, 15 September
FILM: I Vitelloni (The Vitelloni) by F. Fellini, 1953, 103′ duration.
The film is set in Rimini and follows a group of young people: the intellectual Leopoldo, the womanizer Fausto, the mature Moraldo, the immature Alberto, and the incurable gambler Riccardo.
20,30 in Aula Roma at the school building on Via Faenza.
FREE
Wednesday, 17 September
Visit: Il Duomo
Meet at 14.40 in front of the school in Via Faenza. Sign up at the administrative office (Department of Art and Italian Language) by Tuesday, 16 September. Maximum 25 participants.
FREE
Friday, 19 September
Seminar: “Italian Gesturesâ€
Meet at 12.45 in Classroom E.
FREE
Monday, 22 September
FILM: I Soliti Ignoti (The Usual Unknowns) by M. Monicelli, 1958, 111′ duration.
A band of robbers find an opportunity for an easy hit: crack a safe in total silence by breaking through a faulty wall in a private residence. The robbers enter but through the wrong wall; they find themselves in the kitchen. In the refrigerator there is food- they sit down and eat dinner.
20,30 in Aula Roma at the school building on Via Faenza.
FREE
Wednesday, 24 September
VISIT: Boboli Gardens
Meet at 14,40 in front of the school building on Via Faenza. RSVP with the department of Italian language and art by Tuesday, 23 September. Maximum 25 participants.
FREE
Friday, 26 September
Seminar: “Michelangeloâ€
Meet at 12.45 in Classroom E.
Saturday, 27 September
Visit: La Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano
Meet in front of the school at 9,10 to visit the country villa of Lorenzo il Magnifico and where Francesco I and Bianca Cappello died. Cost: € 10,00, which includes return bus trip, guided visit of the villa and park, informational materials. Sign up and pay with the department of Italian language and art by Thursday, 25 September. Minimum 6 participants.
FREE
Monday, 29 September
Seminar: “Florence and the Mediciâ€
Meet at 12.45 in Classroom N.
FREE
Monday, 29 September
FILM: Travolti da un Insolito Destino Nell’Azzurro Mare d’Agosto (Swept Away by an Unexpected Destiny in the Blue Sea of August) by L. Wertmuller, 1974, 125′ duration.
Raffaella Pavone Lanzetti spends her vacations on a yacht in the Mediterranean, together with her rich friends. Gennarino, a rough sicilian sailor, is constantly at her beck and call until because of a damaged engine the two find themselves alone in the open water. Washed up on a desert island, roles are reversed until…
20,30 in Aula Roma at the school building on Via Faenza.
FREE
Wednesday, 1 October
Visit: Accademia Gallery
Meet at 14.40 in front of the school in Via Faenza. Sign up at the administrative office (Department of Art and Italian Language) by Tuesday, 30 September. Maximum 25 participants.