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The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
presents
CULTURAL EVENTS of
2012
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
together with
the America-Italy Society of Philadelphia
present their
SPRING 2012 FILM SERIES
Italian Food and Cinema Un americano a Roma (1954)
(An American in Rome) A film by Steno (Stefano Vanzina)
with Alberto Sordi and Maria Pia Casilio
Running time 134
In Italian with English subtitles
Introduction by Massimo Musumeci
Professor of Italian
at Community College of Philadelphia
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early 50s Roma He is completely crazy for everything that
comes from the States He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever) to wear like he thinks
Americans do to walk like John Wayne () trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup His life is a complete
parody of the real American way of life which he couldnt ever get Nandos not so secret dream is to go
to the USA To get it he goes to the Coliseum and threats to suicide if the American Embassy doesnrsquot give
him the Visa But at this point Nando is very well known as a crazy-for-USA boyhellip
Thursday April 26 2012 at 600 pm America-Italy Society of Philadelphia
1420 Walnut Street Suite 310 - Philadelphia PA 19102
FREE ADMISSION - Light refreshments
RSVP Tel 215 735 3250 or infoaisphilaorg
Consulate General of Italy Saint Josephrsquos University
in Philadelphia
ldquoStylehelliprefers to cultural attitudes and states of consciousness which encompass intellectual and aesthetic
political and scientific assumptions and thoughtsrdquo (Mieke Bal)
The Death of the Baroque
Aesthetics and Cultural Politics in XVIII-Century Rome
By Dr Paola Giuli
Thursday April 19th
2012 at 430pm
North Lounge - Campion Student Center at Saint Josephrsquos University
Signed miniature (1732) showing Laura Bassi lecturing in the Palazzo Pubblico Bologna
This presentation studies the ways in which 18th-century Italian womenrsquos emergence in the Republic of Letters is connected to the shift from a baroque to classicist aesthetics in early eighteenth-century Rome At a time of the famous Orsi-Bouhours controversy on the Baroque Arcadia opened its doors to literary women in order to form an educated class conversant with classicist principles of buon gusto It stressed not only a Pastoral aesthetics and the imitation of Petrarch but also a simplified more democratic social structure Arcadia became a laboratory for cultural and social experimentation that had a direct impact not just on eighteenth-century Italian literature and art but also on eighteenth-century Italian society It created the premises for an unprecedented flourishing of women intellectuals not just poets but also translators dramatists essayists memorialists journalists historians poet laureates and university professors Directions httpwwwsjueduaboutmapdirectionshtml
Architectures of the Text An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries
Saturday February 11 2012
1000AM mdash 630PM
Meyerson Conference Room Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 2nd floor
University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-6206
Registration Space is limited so advanced registration is required by Tuesday February 7 2012
For registration please RSVP HERE or contact us at
rbmlpoboxupennedu or 2158987088
In April 2011 the University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquired a copy of the uncommon second edition of Francesco Colonnarsquos Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili (Venice 1545)sup1 Since the appearance of the first edition in 1499 the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has been heralded as the most beautiful
book to appear in the Italian Renaissance Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius ldquoThe Dream of Poliphilyrdquo was admired by Aldusrsquos contemporaries
for its scholarship and value as an architectural treatise Forty-six years after the publication of the first edition Aldusrsquos heirs printed a second edition
in 1545 This second edition suggests a renewed interest in the work within Italy and beyond for within a year a French translation appeared
followed by an English translation in 1592 Celebrated for its typographical design and illustrations the Hypnerotomachia continues to attract the
interest of scholars typophiles and collectors it remains available in modern scholarly editions in both print and electronic format
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquisition came at the suggestion of John Dixon Hunt Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at
the University Funds for its purchase came from the G Holmes Perkins Books and Archives Fund established by G Holmes Perkins Professor of
Architecture and Urbanism and former dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts (now the School of Design) The Libraries and the School of Design
administer this fund jointly
On February 11 2012 the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the School of Design will
collaborate on a one-day symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the Hypnerotomachia The symposium will give faculty students scholars and
the public the opportunity to explore the beauty meaning and mysteries contained within the books text and images and to share observations and
findings with Penn colleagues and the scholarly community Topics to be addressed include the publishing history of the book gardens and landscape
architecture in the book and in Renaissance Italy classical inscriptions and ruins the language of the text and its sources and the continuing influence
of the Hypnerotomachia on graphic design
sup1 Francesco Colonna La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo cioegrave pugna damore in sogno douegli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che
sogno amp doue narra moltaltre cose degne di cognitione (In Venetia In Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo MDXXXXV [1545])
Confirmed Speakers
Lynne Farrington University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
William Keller University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library
Victoria Kirkham University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages
David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture
David McKnight University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ann Moyer University of Pennsylvania Department of History
Chris Nygren University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Larry Silver University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Ian White Independent scholar and translator of the Hypnerotomachia
Shushi Yoshinaga Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Conference Sponsors
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Center for Italian Studies - Italian Section University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History of Art University of Pennsylvania
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
is proud to present
Our 2nd
ITALIAN LANGUAGE TANDEM
Come join the friends of the Consulate for an Italian-style APERITIVO and get the
chance to practice speaking ItalianEnglish with your Italian counterparts share
studytravel abroad experiences or just come spend time with other Italians We
are glad to meet you all at the Positano Coast Restaurant on Thursday February
9th at 700 pm
Feel free to invite your friends to join us
RSVP to stagistafiladelfiaesteriit
Where Positano Coast Restaurant
212 Walnut (2nd floor)
Philadelphia PA 19106
When Thursday February 9th
Time 700-930pm
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
together with
the America-Italy Society of Philadelphia
present their
SPRING 2012 FILM SERIES
Italian Food and Cinema Un americano a Roma (1954)
(An American in Rome) A film by Steno (Stefano Vanzina)
with Alberto Sordi and Maria Pia Casilio
Running time 134
In Italian with English subtitles
Introduction by Massimo Musumeci
Professor of Italian
at Community College of Philadelphia
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early 50s Roma He is completely crazy for everything that
comes from the States He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever) to wear like he thinks
Americans do to walk like John Wayne () trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup His life is a complete
parody of the real American way of life which he couldnt ever get Nandos not so secret dream is to go
to the USA To get it he goes to the Coliseum and threats to suicide if the American Embassy doesnrsquot give
him the Visa But at this point Nando is very well known as a crazy-for-USA boyhellip
Thursday April 26 2012 at 600 pm America-Italy Society of Philadelphia
1420 Walnut Street Suite 310 - Philadelphia PA 19102
FREE ADMISSION - Light refreshments
RSVP Tel 215 735 3250 or infoaisphilaorg
Consulate General of Italy Saint Josephrsquos University
in Philadelphia
ldquoStylehelliprefers to cultural attitudes and states of consciousness which encompass intellectual and aesthetic
political and scientific assumptions and thoughtsrdquo (Mieke Bal)
The Death of the Baroque
Aesthetics and Cultural Politics in XVIII-Century Rome
By Dr Paola Giuli
Thursday April 19th
2012 at 430pm
North Lounge - Campion Student Center at Saint Josephrsquos University
Signed miniature (1732) showing Laura Bassi lecturing in the Palazzo Pubblico Bologna
This presentation studies the ways in which 18th-century Italian womenrsquos emergence in the Republic of Letters is connected to the shift from a baroque to classicist aesthetics in early eighteenth-century Rome At a time of the famous Orsi-Bouhours controversy on the Baroque Arcadia opened its doors to literary women in order to form an educated class conversant with classicist principles of buon gusto It stressed not only a Pastoral aesthetics and the imitation of Petrarch but also a simplified more democratic social structure Arcadia became a laboratory for cultural and social experimentation that had a direct impact not just on eighteenth-century Italian literature and art but also on eighteenth-century Italian society It created the premises for an unprecedented flourishing of women intellectuals not just poets but also translators dramatists essayists memorialists journalists historians poet laureates and university professors Directions httpwwwsjueduaboutmapdirectionshtml
Architectures of the Text An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries
Saturday February 11 2012
1000AM mdash 630PM
Meyerson Conference Room Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 2nd floor
University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-6206
Registration Space is limited so advanced registration is required by Tuesday February 7 2012
For registration please RSVP HERE or contact us at
rbmlpoboxupennedu or 2158987088
In April 2011 the University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquired a copy of the uncommon second edition of Francesco Colonnarsquos Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili (Venice 1545)sup1 Since the appearance of the first edition in 1499 the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has been heralded as the most beautiful
book to appear in the Italian Renaissance Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius ldquoThe Dream of Poliphilyrdquo was admired by Aldusrsquos contemporaries
for its scholarship and value as an architectural treatise Forty-six years after the publication of the first edition Aldusrsquos heirs printed a second edition
in 1545 This second edition suggests a renewed interest in the work within Italy and beyond for within a year a French translation appeared
followed by an English translation in 1592 Celebrated for its typographical design and illustrations the Hypnerotomachia continues to attract the
interest of scholars typophiles and collectors it remains available in modern scholarly editions in both print and electronic format
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquisition came at the suggestion of John Dixon Hunt Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at
the University Funds for its purchase came from the G Holmes Perkins Books and Archives Fund established by G Holmes Perkins Professor of
Architecture and Urbanism and former dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts (now the School of Design) The Libraries and the School of Design
administer this fund jointly
On February 11 2012 the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the School of Design will
collaborate on a one-day symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the Hypnerotomachia The symposium will give faculty students scholars and
the public the opportunity to explore the beauty meaning and mysteries contained within the books text and images and to share observations and
findings with Penn colleagues and the scholarly community Topics to be addressed include the publishing history of the book gardens and landscape
architecture in the book and in Renaissance Italy classical inscriptions and ruins the language of the text and its sources and the continuing influence
of the Hypnerotomachia on graphic design
sup1 Francesco Colonna La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo cioegrave pugna damore in sogno douegli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che
sogno amp doue narra moltaltre cose degne di cognitione (In Venetia In Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo MDXXXXV [1545])
Confirmed Speakers
Lynne Farrington University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
William Keller University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library
Victoria Kirkham University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages
David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture
David McKnight University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ann Moyer University of Pennsylvania Department of History
Chris Nygren University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Larry Silver University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Ian White Independent scholar and translator of the Hypnerotomachia
Shushi Yoshinaga Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Conference Sponsors
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Center for Italian Studies - Italian Section University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History of Art University of Pennsylvania
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
is proud to present
Our 2nd
ITALIAN LANGUAGE TANDEM
Come join the friends of the Consulate for an Italian-style APERITIVO and get the
chance to practice speaking ItalianEnglish with your Italian counterparts share
studytravel abroad experiences or just come spend time with other Italians We
are glad to meet you all at the Positano Coast Restaurant on Thursday February
9th at 700 pm
Feel free to invite your friends to join us
RSVP to stagistafiladelfiaesteriit
Where Positano Coast Restaurant
212 Walnut (2nd floor)
Philadelphia PA 19106
When Thursday February 9th
Time 700-930pm
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
Consulate General of Italy Saint Josephrsquos University
in Philadelphia
ldquoStylehelliprefers to cultural attitudes and states of consciousness which encompass intellectual and aesthetic
political and scientific assumptions and thoughtsrdquo (Mieke Bal)
The Death of the Baroque
Aesthetics and Cultural Politics in XVIII-Century Rome
By Dr Paola Giuli
Thursday April 19th
2012 at 430pm
North Lounge - Campion Student Center at Saint Josephrsquos University
Signed miniature (1732) showing Laura Bassi lecturing in the Palazzo Pubblico Bologna
This presentation studies the ways in which 18th-century Italian womenrsquos emergence in the Republic of Letters is connected to the shift from a baroque to classicist aesthetics in early eighteenth-century Rome At a time of the famous Orsi-Bouhours controversy on the Baroque Arcadia opened its doors to literary women in order to form an educated class conversant with classicist principles of buon gusto It stressed not only a Pastoral aesthetics and the imitation of Petrarch but also a simplified more democratic social structure Arcadia became a laboratory for cultural and social experimentation that had a direct impact not just on eighteenth-century Italian literature and art but also on eighteenth-century Italian society It created the premises for an unprecedented flourishing of women intellectuals not just poets but also translators dramatists essayists memorialists journalists historians poet laureates and university professors Directions httpwwwsjueduaboutmapdirectionshtml
Architectures of the Text An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries
Saturday February 11 2012
1000AM mdash 630PM
Meyerson Conference Room Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 2nd floor
University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-6206
Registration Space is limited so advanced registration is required by Tuesday February 7 2012
For registration please RSVP HERE or contact us at
rbmlpoboxupennedu or 2158987088
In April 2011 the University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquired a copy of the uncommon second edition of Francesco Colonnarsquos Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili (Venice 1545)sup1 Since the appearance of the first edition in 1499 the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has been heralded as the most beautiful
book to appear in the Italian Renaissance Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius ldquoThe Dream of Poliphilyrdquo was admired by Aldusrsquos contemporaries
for its scholarship and value as an architectural treatise Forty-six years after the publication of the first edition Aldusrsquos heirs printed a second edition
in 1545 This second edition suggests a renewed interest in the work within Italy and beyond for within a year a French translation appeared
followed by an English translation in 1592 Celebrated for its typographical design and illustrations the Hypnerotomachia continues to attract the
interest of scholars typophiles and collectors it remains available in modern scholarly editions in both print and electronic format
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquisition came at the suggestion of John Dixon Hunt Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at
the University Funds for its purchase came from the G Holmes Perkins Books and Archives Fund established by G Holmes Perkins Professor of
Architecture and Urbanism and former dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts (now the School of Design) The Libraries and the School of Design
administer this fund jointly
On February 11 2012 the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the School of Design will
collaborate on a one-day symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the Hypnerotomachia The symposium will give faculty students scholars and
the public the opportunity to explore the beauty meaning and mysteries contained within the books text and images and to share observations and
findings with Penn colleagues and the scholarly community Topics to be addressed include the publishing history of the book gardens and landscape
architecture in the book and in Renaissance Italy classical inscriptions and ruins the language of the text and its sources and the continuing influence
of the Hypnerotomachia on graphic design
sup1 Francesco Colonna La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo cioegrave pugna damore in sogno douegli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che
sogno amp doue narra moltaltre cose degne di cognitione (In Venetia In Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo MDXXXXV [1545])
Confirmed Speakers
Lynne Farrington University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
William Keller University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library
Victoria Kirkham University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages
David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture
David McKnight University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ann Moyer University of Pennsylvania Department of History
Chris Nygren University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Larry Silver University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Ian White Independent scholar and translator of the Hypnerotomachia
Shushi Yoshinaga Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Conference Sponsors
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Center for Italian Studies - Italian Section University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History of Art University of Pennsylvania
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
is proud to present
Our 2nd
ITALIAN LANGUAGE TANDEM
Come join the friends of the Consulate for an Italian-style APERITIVO and get the
chance to practice speaking ItalianEnglish with your Italian counterparts share
studytravel abroad experiences or just come spend time with other Italians We
are glad to meet you all at the Positano Coast Restaurant on Thursday February
9th at 700 pm
Feel free to invite your friends to join us
RSVP to stagistafiladelfiaesteriit
Where Positano Coast Restaurant
212 Walnut (2nd floor)
Philadelphia PA 19106
When Thursday February 9th
Time 700-930pm
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
Architectures of the Text An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries
Saturday February 11 2012
1000AM mdash 630PM
Meyerson Conference Room Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 2nd floor
University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-6206
Registration Space is limited so advanced registration is required by Tuesday February 7 2012
For registration please RSVP HERE or contact us at
rbmlpoboxupennedu or 2158987088
In April 2011 the University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquired a copy of the uncommon second edition of Francesco Colonnarsquos Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili (Venice 1545)sup1 Since the appearance of the first edition in 1499 the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has been heralded as the most beautiful
book to appear in the Italian Renaissance Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius ldquoThe Dream of Poliphilyrdquo was admired by Aldusrsquos contemporaries
for its scholarship and value as an architectural treatise Forty-six years after the publication of the first edition Aldusrsquos heirs printed a second edition
in 1545 This second edition suggests a renewed interest in the work within Italy and beyond for within a year a French translation appeared
followed by an English translation in 1592 Celebrated for its typographical design and illustrations the Hypnerotomachia continues to attract the
interest of scholars typophiles and collectors it remains available in modern scholarly editions in both print and electronic format
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquisition came at the suggestion of John Dixon Hunt Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at
the University Funds for its purchase came from the G Holmes Perkins Books and Archives Fund established by G Holmes Perkins Professor of
Architecture and Urbanism and former dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts (now the School of Design) The Libraries and the School of Design
administer this fund jointly
On February 11 2012 the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the School of Design will
collaborate on a one-day symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the Hypnerotomachia The symposium will give faculty students scholars and
the public the opportunity to explore the beauty meaning and mysteries contained within the books text and images and to share observations and
findings with Penn colleagues and the scholarly community Topics to be addressed include the publishing history of the book gardens and landscape
architecture in the book and in Renaissance Italy classical inscriptions and ruins the language of the text and its sources and the continuing influence
of the Hypnerotomachia on graphic design
sup1 Francesco Colonna La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo cioegrave pugna damore in sogno douegli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che
sogno amp doue narra moltaltre cose degne di cognitione (In Venetia In Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo MDXXXXV [1545])
Confirmed Speakers
Lynne Farrington University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
William Keller University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library
Victoria Kirkham University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages
David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture
David McKnight University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ann Moyer University of Pennsylvania Department of History
Chris Nygren University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Larry Silver University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Ian White Independent scholar and translator of the Hypnerotomachia
Shushi Yoshinaga Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Conference Sponsors
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Center for Italian Studies - Italian Section University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History of Art University of Pennsylvania
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
is proud to present
Our 2nd
ITALIAN LANGUAGE TANDEM
Come join the friends of the Consulate for an Italian-style APERITIVO and get the
chance to practice speaking ItalianEnglish with your Italian counterparts share
studytravel abroad experiences or just come spend time with other Italians We
are glad to meet you all at the Positano Coast Restaurant on Thursday February
9th at 700 pm
Feel free to invite your friends to join us
RSVP to stagistafiladelfiaesteriit
Where Positano Coast Restaurant
212 Walnut (2nd floor)
Philadelphia PA 19106
When Thursday February 9th
Time 700-930pm
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
the public the opportunity to explore the beauty meaning and mysteries contained within the books text and images and to share observations and
findings with Penn colleagues and the scholarly community Topics to be addressed include the publishing history of the book gardens and landscape
architecture in the book and in Renaissance Italy classical inscriptions and ruins the language of the text and its sources and the continuing influence
of the Hypnerotomachia on graphic design
sup1 Francesco Colonna La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo cioegrave pugna damore in sogno douegli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che
sogno amp doue narra moltaltre cose degne di cognitione (In Venetia In Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo MDXXXXV [1545])
Confirmed Speakers
Lynne Farrington University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture
William Keller University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library
Victoria Kirkham University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages
David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture
David McKnight University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ann Moyer University of Pennsylvania Department of History
Chris Nygren University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Larry Silver University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
Ian White Independent scholar and translator of the Hypnerotomachia
Shushi Yoshinaga Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Conference Sponsors
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Center for Italian Studies - Italian Section University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History of Art University of Pennsylvania
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
is proud to present
Our 2nd
ITALIAN LANGUAGE TANDEM
Come join the friends of the Consulate for an Italian-style APERITIVO and get the
chance to practice speaking ItalianEnglish with your Italian counterparts share
studytravel abroad experiences or just come spend time with other Italians We
are glad to meet you all at the Positano Coast Restaurant on Thursday February
9th at 700 pm
Feel free to invite your friends to join us
RSVP to stagistafiladelfiaesteriit
Where Positano Coast Restaurant
212 Walnut (2nd floor)
Philadelphia PA 19106
When Thursday February 9th
Time 700-930pm
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
is proud to present
Our 2nd
ITALIAN LANGUAGE TANDEM
Come join the friends of the Consulate for an Italian-style APERITIVO and get the
chance to practice speaking ItalianEnglish with your Italian counterparts share
studytravel abroad experiences or just come spend time with other Italians We
are glad to meet you all at the Positano Coast Restaurant on Thursday February
9th at 700 pm
Feel free to invite your friends to join us
RSVP to stagistafiladelfiaesteriit
Where Positano Coast Restaurant
212 Walnut (2nd floor)
Philadelphia PA 19106
When Thursday February 9th
Time 700-930pm
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
Speech of the Deputy Eugenio Boldrini at the Tribute to the Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia
Calabi-Zevi
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to this event organized by the Consulate General of
Italy in Philadelphia
As you might know January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the victims of
the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime It was
designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 607 on November 1 2005 January 27
was chosen because on this date in 1945 the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated by Soviet troops
Tonight on this occasion we pay homage and give tribute to an extraordinary woman Tullia Zevi
who was the only woman to ever hold the position of president of our countryrsquos Jewish communities
and one of the historic post-war leaders of Italys Jews It is a sad coincidence that Tullia Zevi passed
away last year on January 22 Hence today we commemorate in this occasion the first anniversary of
her passing
Allow me to first welcome our distinguished guests I would like to thank Professor Eugenio Calabi
Tullia Zevirsquos brother for being here tonight to remember his sister Tullia and to share some of his
experiences of Fascism and the war
Many thanks to Mrs Giuliana Calabi Mrs Nora Calabi and her husband Mr Luis for attending this
event and sharing their memories with us I would like to take this opportunity to also wish Mrs Nora
Calabi a very happy birthday
I would also like to thank Dr Jonathan Steinberg Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and
expert of Modern European and Jewish History for accepting our invitation to talk tonight and
interviewing Professor Calabi
Many thanks also to Professor Richard Juliani for his suggestions and ideas on this event and finally
thanks to Gershman Y for hosting this event
January 2012 sadly marks 70 years since Nazi Germany executed the plan of the
systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II or as Hitler termed it the final solution of
the Jewish question It was only with that decision made at the Wannasee Conference on January 20
1942 that the extermination camps were built and the industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began
Tomorrow at the America-Italy Society you will have an opportunity to see a movie set in Hungary
during the last most crucial years of the war and the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
So it is with a sense of grief and sorrow that tonight we commemorate the first anniversary of the
passing of Tullia Calabi Zevi Professor Calabi and Professor Steinberg will talk more extensively
about her I would just like to mention how and why this woman was so special for all Italians
Tullia was a strong woman since her youth when she fled to France and then to New York where she
was able to assimilate the American spirit reacting vigorously to the sadness for the forced exile from
home She made her passion for music a profession playing harp with Bernstein and Sinatra While in
New York she met and married the brilliant architect and intellectual Bruno Zevi and she actively
participated in the vital antifascist Italian community that was following the three principles of
antifascism democracy and tolerance
She was a noted journalist conducting significant interviews with important people for the Israeli
newspaper Maariv covering the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS
officer Adolf Eichmann one of the major organizers of the Nazi Holocaust
She possessed a certain liberty and self-confidence equal to those of men without the lsquomaster keyrsquo of
feminism
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
Without being too ldquoreligiousrdquo she distinguished herself as an Italian Jew and was head of Italys Jewish
communities for 15 years from 1983 to 1998
She lived her entire life with intensity and sweetness giving testimony to universal values that filled
up her difficult life values that were universal like the thousand streams of the Diaspora during the
centuries values that she tried to assert again and again during the lsquoshort centuryrsquo (the 20th
century) in
whose tragedies the Jewish people most of anyone else were entangled and represent a paradigm of
suffering
She was a protagonist of our history an extraordinary woman who was at the same time courageous
and meek who possessed exquisite humanity and culture For survivors she was a clarion voice that
warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism not just to Jews but to society and democracy as a whole
and was a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the universal struggle against the malignant threat
of fascism
I will now turn the floor over to Professor Steinberg who is the Walter H Annenberg Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall
Cambridge His work has been in both German and Italian history and he has published on the rise of
fascism in Calabria the questione della lingua in Italian history Carlo Cattaneo and finally in All or
Nothing The Axis and the Holocaust he compared Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in their treatment of
the Jews His most recent book Bismarck A Life was published by Oxford University Press in April
2011
Please join me in welcoming Prof Steinberg Thank you
