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Our Upcoming Events
Quiz Evening... in Italian Mostly
Gloria and Marisa present another Cheltenham Italian Society quiz evening.
Christmas Social
Christmas starts early for members, with Italian Christmas fare and a consideration of how Italians celebrate their Christmas.
Davide Ventola of Caffè e Vino in Conversation
Davide established Tewkesbury’s Caffè e Vino some six years ago with the goal of serving ‘great Italian food to happy customers’. Based on bookings, word-of-mouth and a Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence, he has achieved his goal – and will now share his story with us. Event largely in Italian.
Talk: Dr Robert Wenley, Barber Institute Birmingham
‘Presentation and Representation: New Approaches to Displaying Italian Old Master Paintings at the Barber Institute’. During his talk Dr Wenley will share the concepts and ideas underpinning the rehang of the Italian Collections at Birmingham University’s Barber Institute of Fine Arts, whose Grade 1 listed building is currently being redeveloped. Talk in English.
Members' Evening
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‘The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance’
‘The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance’. Ross King has written books on Italian, French and Canadian art and history including Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, Leonardo and The Last Supper and a biography of Machiavelli. He will talk about this ‘king of booksellers’ who sold illuminated books graced to popes, kings and princes – but lived to see the life-transforming invention of printing and to write wonderfully gossipy memoirs. Talk in English
AGM, and Talk (tbc)
Annual General Meeting and short talk/entertainment (details tbc)