The Leonardo Da Vinci Society
In collaboration with
Museo Italo Americano
cordially invites you to
Leonardo Sciascia
100 year Birth Anniversary Celebration
presenting
TRUTH THROUGH LITERATURE: SCIASCIA AT 100
A lecture by
Prof. Enrico Vettore
California State University Long Beach
Chair of the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies
Live event with Prof Vettore on Zoom
Refreshments will follow
November 18, 6:00 pm
Museo Italo Americano,
Fort Mason, Building C, SF
Free for members. $10 suggested donation GP
Proof of vaccination and mask required
The Italian Cultural Institute
Bio of Prof. Enrico Vettore
Enrico Vettore is Professor of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach and Chair of the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies.
His main scholarly interests include: Philosophy and Literature, Italian Cinema and Jungian and post-Jungian literary criticism, Ecocriticism, and Zen philosophy.
He has published articles on Roberto Rossellini’s Voyage in Italy, Leonardo Sciascia and Alessandro Manzoni, Sciascia, Borges and Schopenhauer, Petrarch and Schopenhauer, an alchemical reading of Pasolini’s Medea and a Zen reading of Pirandello’s One, No one, and One Hundred Thousand.
He is currently working on an ecocritical/ecopsychological reading of Antonioni’s trilogy and on a book project on Gianni Celati and Zen philosophy.
The event is “ in person event” Prof Vettore will appear on a big screen on a zoom connection with the audience.
RSVP to : ldvsf2017@gmail.com
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