Archivio eventi

THE FORGER'S CRAFT PART II: THE FORGING OF A 'RENAISSANCE' PAINTING

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Illuminating the Past

A workshop to create a Renaissance illuminated letter

SOTTO AL BRITISH, Lungarno Guicciardini n.15 

Piano Recital by Simone Tavoni

At the British Institute Library

Miracle Makers of Duecento Florence

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Visiting La Foce’s gardens with author Katia Lysy

Tour bus will leave Florence at 9:00 and should be back in town by 17:00.

Sex and Solitude – Arturo Galansino and Christian Levett discuss the life and work of Tracey Emin

At the British Institute Library 

Art and Reproductions: What is so special about seeing the original?

A lecture by Duncan Geddes

Wine Tasting - Vignamaggio

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library 

Jazz al British - Il Circo by Giovanni Vannoni

At the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks. 19:00 Concert starts

‘A mirror endowed with memory…’ Photography, Artists & the Art Market in late 19C Florence

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

Inside Florence - Palazzi and Botteghe by Livia Frescobaldi

At the British Institute Library 

Adventures in Antiquity and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud’s Visits to Italy in the 1890s

A lecture by Giuseppe Albano

Piano Recital by Sherri Lun

At the British Institute Library

A visit to Il Palmerino: Garden and Estate Tour

At Villa Il Palmerino 

The Annunciation in Tuscan Art

A lecture by Mark Roberts 

Speaking through Colour

The paintings of John Griffiths in dialogue with works from The Levett Collection.

At the British Institute Library

History of Winemaking in Chianti

A lecture by Guido Gualandi 

Piano Recital by Ruben Micieli

At the British Institute Library

The Invention of Cosimo I de' Medici

A lecture by by Alessio Assonitis

The Magpie's Guide to Montalcino by Laura Rose Gray

At the British Institute Library 

Piano Recital by Maria Martinova

At the British Institute Library

How they were Seen IV

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Iris Origo and Villa La Foce

A lecture by Katia Lysy

Jazz Concert by Stefano Maurizi (piano) & Mirco Mariottini (clarinet)

At the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks. 19:00 Concert starts

Voices from the Renaissance

A lecture by Lisa Kaborycha

Hobbits, Space Pirates, Talking Seagulls...and The Brothers of Italy

A lecture by John Hooper

A painter’s Florentine Garden: Lola Costa and Il Palmerino

A lecture by Federica Parretti and Linda Falcone

Renaissance Women of Florence

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

The Glittering Canopy: Renaissance Pyrotechnics

A lecture by Marcella Stockstill

Christmas Concert

At the British Insitute Library

Feasting in the Renaissance

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo

Mercatino di Natale 2024

Alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Art and science at the Medici court

A lecture by Filippo Camerota

Did Jesus die on the cross? An enquiry into images of the crucifixion

A lecture by Duncan Geddes

Piano Recital by Chiara Saccone

At the British Institute Library

The Grand Dukes and the Cathedral Facade

A lecture by Timothy Verdon

Meet the Author - Vanessa Nicolson

At the British Institute Library 

Three collectors in early 20th-century Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Piano Recital by Misha Kaploukhii

At the British Institute Library

Christmas Raffle

Help raise funds for our wonderful library and try to win one of this year's prizes!

Meet the Author - Amber Guinness

At the British Institute Library 

Ghiberti, Brunelleschi and the Gates of Paradise

A lecture by Jason Arkles

Duo Atlantis: Jack Tyndale-Biscoe (piano) & Rachel Payne (mezzo soprano)

At the British Institute Library

Wine Tour - Tenuta Poggio Torselli

Tour bus will leave Florence at 10:00 and should be back in town by 17:00.

The Emotional Language of Justice in Renaissance Italy

A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

The Forger’s Craft: The Making of a ‘Renaissance’ Drawing

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Piano Recital by Nicolò Giuliano Tuccia

At the British Institute Library

Italy in the American Imagination

A lecture by Ian Bickerton

When Computers look at Art

A lecture by David G. Stork

Giornata Europea delle Lingue

At the British Institute Library

Giochi, sport, eventi e fantastici premi tra gli Istituti di Lingua e Cultura di Firenze!

Jazz al British by Phelan Burgoyne & Edoardo Ferri

At the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks are served; 19:00 Concert starts

Boccaccio’s Decameron in Florence

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Wine Tasting - Poggio Torselli

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library 

The Girl with a Peach: courage and compassion in wartime Tuscany

A lecture by Anne Copley

How Florence Won my Heart

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Piano Recital by Kyle Hutchings

At the British Institute Library

"The Maiden of Florence" by Katherine Mezzacappa

Book Presentation at SOTTO al British

Southbound Sagas: Medici’s South American Tales

A lecture by Gastòn Javier Basile

Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers - between the real world and Middle Earth

John Hooper in conversation with Morgan Fiumi

A Special Event in the Library

Piano Recital by Sasha Grynyuk

At the British Institute Library

How They Were Seen Part III: A Walk around Florence in the 1480's

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Roger Low (violoncello) and Scott Faigen (piano)

At the British Institute Library

Byron 200

A performance by Jan Noble with an introduction by Mark Roberts

Piano Recital by Jayson Gillham

At the British Institute Library

Plague in Florence

A lecture by John Henderson

Meet the Author - Mark Roberts

At the British Institute Library 

Brunelleschi’s Dome

A lecture by Ross King

Piano Recital by Andrea Molteni

At the British Institute Library

Meet the Author - Moira Macfarlane

At the British Institute Library 

How the Medici Came to Know About the World: The Origin of Newspapers in Early Modern Florence

A lecture by Alessio Assonitis

Vernon Lee and the efforts to preserve old Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Piano Recital by William Howard

At the British Institute Library

Painting the Past: How the Renaissance was Invented

A lecture by Kevin Murphy

Wine Tasting - Ruffino Wines

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library 

A Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Restored: Pontormo at San Lorenzo

A lecture by Elizabeth Pilliod

“Sono arrivati degli inglesi”. The British presence in Florence through the images of Alinari Archives

A lecture by Giorgio van Straten

Jazz Concert by Phelan Burgoyne (drums) and Fred Thomas (piano)

At the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks; 19:00 Concert starts

Finding, Fixing, Faking, Making: The Dealer Stefano Bardini and the Many Hands of Bardini & Co.

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

Meet the Author - Mark Anthony Jarman: Burn Man

At the British Institute Library 

Dante’s Florence

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Piano Recital by Simone Tavoni

At the British Institute Library

The Liberation of Florence (1944)

A lecture by Valdo Spini

Facts and Fictions in Renaissance Florentine Family Books

A lecture by Lisa Kaborycha

Piano Recital by Magdalene Ho

At the British Institute Library

Divine Blue

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi 

Images of Love in the Renaissance

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo  

Jazz Concert by Stefano Maurizi (piano) & Mirco Mariottini (clarinet)

At the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks. 19:00 Concert starts

Palazzo Strozzi by Arturo Galansino

A lecture by Arturo Galansino

Porcelain from Florence: the Ginori factory

A lecture by Oliva Rucellai  

Piano Recital by Filip Michalak

At the British Institute Library

‘Of glorious and generous fame’: The lasting influence of Francesco Petrarca

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence   

Lorenzo Bartolini and the Truth of Nature

A lecture by Jason Arkles   

Wine Tasting - Basilica Cafaggio Winery

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library 

The Importance of Florence in Music History

A lecture by Anthony Cummings     

Christmas Concert

At the British Insitute Library

Under the Sign of Donatello - A Tribute to John Pope-Hennessy

Under the Sign of Donatello

Distinguishing Donatello

A lecture by Jeremy Boudreau

Meet the Author - Jeannie Marshall: All Things Move

At the British Institute Library 

The Jewish Ghetto of Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Piano Recital by Minkyu Kim

At the British Institute Library

Pre-Raphaelite ‘Sisterhood’ in the villas of Bellosguardo

A lecture by Francesca Baldry

Meet the Author - Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

At the British Institute Library 

Mascarade Song Recital

At the British Institute Library

Between the Sheets

A lecture by Duncan Geddes

Violin Jazz by David Schulman

At the British Institute Library

Raphael’s Madonna del Baldacchino and the Basilica of Santo Spirito

A lecture by Timothy Verdon

Christmas Raffle

Help raise funds for our wonderful library and try to win one of this year's prizes!

What It Meant to Be Human in the Renaissance: Human Potential and Shaping a Self

THE 2023 RENAISSANCE PROGRAM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

at the British Institute Library

Piano Recital by Jae Hong Park

At the British Institute Library

The Bookseller of Florence

A lecture by Ross King

Brahms and Schubert by Warwick Lister (violin) and James Gray (piano)

At the British Institute Library

How they Were Seen - Sculpture

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Female Forerunners: A Room of their own

A lecture by Linda Falcone

Populists or Pussycats? Giorgia Meloni’s government one year on

John Hooper in conversation with Morgan Fiumi

A Special Event in the Library

Phelan Burgoyne / Emanuele Maniscalco Duo

At the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks; 19:00 Concert starts

The Bargello from 1880s to the present day.

A lecture by Paola D’Agostino

The Grand Tour & Beyond. The Paradigm of Florence

A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

Jonathan Ferrucci Piano Recital

At the British Institute Library

Gesture in Renaissance Art

A lecture by Kevin Murphy

Christian Levett: In conversation

At the British Institute Library and online

The Black Death

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo

Castiglion del Bosco Wine Tasting

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library 

VINTAGE OBSESSION

At SOTTO al British

The Future of Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Vernon Lee Conference

At the British Institute Library

Palazzo Lanfredini

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Q and A with London-based Literary Agent Hannah Schofield

Special Event at SOTTO al British

The Velkro Trio

Live at the British Institute Library

Ponte Santa Trinita: "Where it was, as it was"

A lecture by Jason Arkles

Meet the Author - Louisa Young

At the British Institute Library and online, on Zoom

The Paliotti of Santo Spirito

A lecture by by Margaret Zaho

Chloe Jiyeong Mun piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

RESTORATION: A day in the life of Artemisia... today

A lecture by Elizabeth Wicks

The Gipsoteca of the Galleria dell’ Accademia

A lecture by Cecilie Hollberg

Mascarade Song Cycle

Live at the British Institute Library

Smell of the Botteghe

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

The Bequest by Joanna Margaret

Book Presentation at SOTTO al British

Special Wine & Craft Event

Organised by K-OVER in collaboration with Fattoria Santo Stefano at SOTTO al British

All in the (Medici) Family: Cultural Propaganda in Palazzo Pitti

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Meet the Author - John Hooper

At the British Institute Library and online, on Zoom

Roger Low (cello) and Scott Faigen (piano)

Live at the British Institute Library

Quattro Corone Fiorentine

 Zanobi da Strada between Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio

A lecture by Jason Houston

From Elizabethan to Carolean - the man behind the crown | Dall'epoca di Elisabetta all'epoca di Carlo: l'Uomo dietro la Corona

Lezione Speciale a cura di Julia Waldman
Martedì 9 maggio - 18.30-20.30 - presso la Scuola in Viale Mazzini 10

Brigida Baldinotti, The Most Celebrated Unknown Writer of the Quattrocento

A lecture by Lisa Kaborycha

Jan Noble: Shelley 200

A special Event in the Library

Revisiting Vinci: Legends and letters from Leonardo’s childhood

A lecture by Jeremy Boudreau

Meet the Author - Alison MacLeod

At the British Institute Library and online, on Zoom

TRINKETS

Phelan Burgoyne Duo 

Live at the British Institute Library

18:30 Drinks - 19:00 Concert

The Fake-makers of Bardini & Co

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

Botticelli’s Secret

A lecture by Joseph Luzzi

Emanuil Ivanov piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

How they were Seen

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Meet the Author - Antony Beevor

At the British Institute Library and online, on Zoom

Palazzo Davanzati: a Medieval Time Machine

A lecture by Paola D'Agostino, Director Musei del Bargello

Rosalba Carriera: “First Painter of Europe"

A lecture by Angela Oberer

Frescobaldi: a Family History in Wine

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library

Meet the Author - Tim Parks

At the British Institute Library and online, on Zoom

Ivan Krpan piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

A League of their own: Women artists in grand-tour Florence

A lecture by Jeremy Boudreau

Who is Fra Angelico?

A lecture by Carl Strehlke

The Sitwells at Montegufoni

A lecture by Mark Roberts

NATIVE COLORS

Stefano Maurizi, piano 

Presso la biblioteca del British Institute

18:30 Wine;  19:00 Concert starts

The Rise of the Medici

Violence and Justice in Quattrocento Florence

A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

The Young Michelangelo

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo

Hao Zi Yoh piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

Villa Stibbert - A Castle with a View

A lecture by Martina Becattini

Artemisia UpClose!

A lecture by Linda Falcone

EVENTO CANCELLATO - New light on the Latin Inscriptions of Medici Florence

A lecture by Patrick Kragelund

Mercatino di Natale 2022

1. Alla Biblioteca del British Institute

The Colognole Estate: Lecture & Wine and Oil Tasting

Lecture and wine tasting

Permacrisis

What is happening in Italy and the wider world?

A Special Event in the Library

Mascarade Opera Singers

Live at the British Institute Library

Egg Tempera Painting in the Renaissance

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Quick Tickets to Paradise: Martyrs and Miracles in Art

A lecture by Duncan Geddes

Sala della Niobe at the Uffizi

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Pedro López Salas piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

Madness in Romantic Opera

A lecture by Matteo Sansone

Florence Baptistery: History, Art, Myth

A lecture by Timothy Verdon

Donne e Vino

An “Aperi-Talk” by Daniela Salvioni

SOTTO al British

Milda Daunoraite piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

A Beautiful Darkness: Rivalry, Competition, and Madness in Renaissance Florence

A lecture by Stephanie Azzarello

The Mysterious Maurice de Bosdari

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

Kinga Augustyn (violin) and Corrado Ruzza (piano)

Live at the British Institute Library

D.H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas in Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Tenuta degli Dei: Lecture and Wine Tasting

Lecture and Wine Tasting

Nikita Lukinov piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

Santa Trinita, Life and Death in a Renaissance Square

A lecture by Kevin Murphy

Love not War

Live at SOTTO al British

All Change in Italy?

Italy goes to the Polls

A Special Event in the Library

Streaming del Funerale di Sua Maestà Elisabetta II

Presso la Biblioteca del British Institute 

Queen Elizabeth: a Lifetime of Service

Proiezione speciale

Biblioteca del British Institute

BRAINSTORMING FOR WRITERS - SEASON FINALE

SOTTO al British
with Lori Hetherington

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING - SEASON FINALE

SOTTO al British
A social drawing session with model and wine refreshments after. 

Byron, Shelley and Hunt in Tuscany

At the British Institute Library

Songwriters Circle/Cantautori in Circolo

SOTTO al British
SEASON FINALE

Led by Patti DeRosa

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING

SOTTO al British
A social drawing session with model and wine refreshments after. 

Salvador Sanchez piano recital

Live at the British Institute Library

Meet the Author - Tishani Doshi

At the British Institute Library and online, on Zoom

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING

SOTTO al British
A social drawing session with model and wine refreshments after. 

PLACEHOLD Open Mic Night

SOTTO al British 

David in Florence

A lecture by Margaret Zaho

Is Gothic Gendered?

A lecture and interactive discussion by Lee Foust, 

TALK TUESDAYS - Projecting Florence

SOTTO al British
Marisa Garreffa in conversation with David Hartono.

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING

SOTTO al British
A social drawing session with model and wine refreshments after. 

“The Barber and the Clown” + Celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee!

Live at the British Institute Library

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING

SOTTO al British
A social drawing session with model and wine refreshments after. 

Sguardi d' Oltrarno 2022

Exhibition

SOTTO al British, Lungarno Guicciardini n.15

Sguardi d' Oltrarno 2022 - Vernissage

SOTTO al British, Lungarno Guicciardini n.15

PLACEHOLD Open Mic Night

SOTTO al British 

Freedom to Think by Susie Alegre - Book Launch

SOTTO al British
Lungarno Guicciardini n.15 Firenze

Machiavelli’s Florence by Day and by Night

A lecture by Marcello Simonetta

Songwriters Circle/Cantautori in Circolo

SOTTO al British
Every first Tuesday of the month  

Led by Patti DeRosa

TALK TUESDAYS - Queer Dating Florence

SOTTO al British
Marisa Garreffa in conversation with Kali Swaid, Nina Peci, and Vincenzo D'Angelo.

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING

SOTTO al British
A social drawing session with model and wine refreshments after. 

The Melancholy of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici

A lecture by Alessio Assonitis

Phelan Burgoyne New Florence Trio

Live at the British Institute Library

Placehold Open Mic

Organised by Marisa Garreffa and Lauren Mouat

The Ceiling Outside

Book Presentation with Noga Arikha and Vittorio Gallese

Painting Large Frescoes in the Renaissance

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

How to get published

A workshop for writers by Baret Magarian

Connecting Florence

A conversation with Miriam Hurley and Lexie Cimko

"Again" (Знову)

Video art exhibition by Natalyia Antonenko curated by ON.irica 

From Far, From Eve and Morning

Live at the British Institute Library

Multi-Media Spectacle in Renaissance Florence

A lecture by Kate Bolton-Porciatti

Reporting Florence

Reporting Florence
A conversation with Jamie Mackay

SOCIAL LIFE DRAWING

Every Monday night from 18:30-20:30 

Leonardo's Workshops

A lecture by Luke Syson

From the heart to the hills

At SOTTO al British

Royals in Florence

A lecture by Deirdre Pirro

Pulp and Primroses

At SOTTO al British 

Piano Recital by Thomas Kelly

At the British Institute Library

Henry James in Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Meet the Author - Charmaine Wilkerson

At the British Institute's Library and online, via Zoom

Cultivating the Renaissance

A lecture by Katie Campbell

Festivities at the Duomo - 1436

A Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau 

Meet the Author - Christobel Kent

At the British Institute's Library and online, via Zoom

Religious History of the Duomo

Wednesday Lecture by Timothy Verdon, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Gozzoli in Florence

Meet the Author - Sarah Winman

At the British Institute's Library and online, via Zoom

Women in Dante

Wednesday Lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

It's Storytime!

Reading and Activities for Children

WARD ROUND AT THE UFFIZI

Wednesday Lecture by Duncan Geddes, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Town Hall meeting for UK Nationals Living in Italy

Alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

The Grand Duke and the Merchant of Pisa: Ferdinando I's Relations with the Jews of Tuscany

Wednesday Lecture by Lisa Kaborycha, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Meet the Author - Vanessa Nicolson

At the British Institute's Library and online, via Zoom

SECRETS OF THE FLORENTINE MASTERS: DRAPERY STUDIES

Wednesday Lecture by Alan Pascuzzi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Goldberg Variations - A Concert by Jonathan Ferrucci

at the British Institute Library

Omnium Gatherum: American Sculptors in Risorgimento Italy

Wednesday Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Sir Horace Mann and the Grand Tourists

Wednesday Lecture by Mark Roberts, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Liszt Dante Sonata - A Concert by Dalia Lazar

at the British Institute Library

Music Squared: The Power of the Ensemble

Concerto a cura della Fondazione Mascarade Opera presso Giardino Corsini - via Il Prato 56

A Castle in Chianti – the Story of Sonnino

Wednesday Lecture by Caterina Sonnino, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

INTARSI DANTESCHI

Alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence e online, su Zoom

Guardians and Messengers: Archangels in Florence

Wednesday Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Giornata Europea delle Lingue

Online, su Facebook e di persona a Palazzo Strozzino

Pinocchio in Florence

Wednesday Lecture by Anna Kraczyna and John Hooper, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Monumental Dante

Wednesday Lecture by Jason Houston, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Speaking Dante

A 24-hour live reading marathon ,in streaming

Currency of Diplomacy: Friendship, Propaganda and the Power of Renaissance Portrait Medals

Wednesday Lecture by Paola Vojnovic, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Artists' Payment in the Renaissance

Wednesday Lecture by Alan Pascuzzi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Urban safari: Lions, Giraffes, Monkeys and a Hippo in Renaissance Florence

Wednesday Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

The monumental complex of Santa Croce, instructions for use - Narrating seven hundred years of history and building for the future

Wednesday Lecture by Stefano Filipponi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

George Eliot and the writing of Romola

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Ghiberti´s homage to Brunelleschi - artistic rivalry in early 15th century Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

From Moore to Gormley and beyond: contemporary presences in the cradle of the Renaissance

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

To Remember, To Listen

Una performance artistica a cura di Marisa Garreffa

Henry Moore and Tuscany

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Medieval Politics: Guelfs vs. Ghibellines

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Snail and the Whale di Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Earth Day Storytimes - on line, via Facebook and YouTube

Fighting spirits

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Lorax di Dr Seuss

Earth Day Storytimes - on line, via Facebook and YouTube

Poggio Bracciolini: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The IASEMS Graduate Conference at the British Institute of Florence

Virtual Conference, via Zoom

Underground di Madeline Tyler

Earth Day Storytimes - on line, via Facebook and YouTube

The Acton-Mitchell Family at Villa La Pietra: Writing, Collecting, and Gardening

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Tree di Britta Teckentrup

Earth Day Storytimes - on line, via Facebook and YouTube

Patterns of Patronage in Santo Spirito

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Mother Earth and Her Children by Sibylle Von Olfers

Earth Day Storytimes - on line, via Facebook and YouTube

Bronze casting in the Renaissance

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Tower that Giotto never built

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Birth of Opera in Renaissance Italy

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Power and Sexuality in Renaissance Art

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Walter Savage Landor in Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Sculpture and Scrutiny: Public Art and Public Opinion in Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter

Alessandro Sinigaglia and Florentine Resistance

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

A Taste of Modernity - The Tuscan Wine Revolution

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Origin of the Renaissance Palace Typology in Florence, 1382-1432

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Fallen Marys: The Magdalene and Other Wayward Saints in Renaissance Art

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Letture Natalizie per bambini - Harry and the Snow King by Ian Whybrow

Online, via Facebook and YouTube

Letture Natalizie per bambini - Pooh's Christmas Adventure by Andrew Grey

Online, via Facebook and YouTube

Rediscovering the Raphael Cartoons at the V&A

Online event, via Zoom

Letture Natalizie per bambini - How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss

Online, via Facebook and YouTube

The Recovery Plan: Recovering Blackness and Recovering from Florence’s Historical Narration

Online event,  via Zoom

Il Parco delle Cascine

Online event, via Zoom

The Art of Goldsmithing: the Secret of the early Renaissance?

Online event, via Zoom

House of Secrets 2: Eccentricity and Debauchery in fin de siècle Florence

Online event, via Zoom

Settignano

Online Event - via Zoom 

Some 20th Century Literary Visitors to Florence

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

The Epicurean Machiavelli

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Super Tuscans 4 (1475 - 1550)

History of Art Online Seminar - on ZOOM

Super Tuscans 3 (1400-1475)

History of Art Online Seminar - on ZOOM

Il Borgo Ognissanti

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Giornata Europea delle Lingue

Evento online

Leonardo, Zeffirelli and the Corsi family

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Mostra bibliografica - Queen Victoria

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Super Tuscans 2 (1325-1400)

History of Art Online Seminar - on ZOOM

Did Raphael have a Florentine Period?

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Super Tuscans (1250-1325)

History of Art Online Seminar - on ZOOM

American sculptors in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Il Sesto di San Piero Scheraggio: History, Art and Life in the Heart of Florence’s Historic Centre.

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

New Jerusalem: Florence, the Medici and the Jews during the Renaissance

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Firenze NOW!

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

'With exquisite workmanship and skill': il parato di S.Giovanni embroidered from designs by Antonio Pollaiolo

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Boccaccio’s Decameron: a guide to Life after the Plague

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

James Joyce was born in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Twelve and a half Centuries in Twelve and a half Hectares

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Oscar Wilde’s loyal friend Reggie: Reginald Turner in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

House of Secrets: Palazzo Rucellai

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Tuscany, the Mediterranean and the birth of Europe

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

LA COSTA SAN GIORGIO IN OLTRARNO: An uphill encounter with Florence’s Southside

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Healing not Broken

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Florentine Renaissance Art In The Domestic Sphere: Art And Daily Life In Renaissance Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

La Piazza della Santissima Annunziata - A Renaissance Crossway of Faith, Charity and Hope

Virtual Cultural Event, on ZOOM

Early Anglo-Florentines, and some 18th-century visitors to Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on ZOOM

Virtual Event - Portraits and Selfies : the evolution of tourism in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on ZOOM

ART STORIES - TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

It's Storytime! OWL BABIES

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Tè in Biblioteca

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

The apprenticeship and early lives of Leonardo and Michelangelo: a comparison

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Presentazione del libro "Marco Giuliani"

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Talking Pictures

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Tè in Biblioteca

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Getting the message through: composers, scores, performers

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Talking Pictures

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain di Verna Aardema

alla Biblioteca del British Institute.

In collaborazione con Black History Month Florence

Tè in Biblioteca

alla biblioteca del British Institute

Renaissance food and banqueting

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Party di Raccolta Fondi

presso la Sala Ferragamo, Palazzo Lanfredini, Lungarno Guicciardini 9

MUSIC AL BRITISH - Ashley Fripp (piano)

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Tè in Biblioteca

Tè in Biblioteca

Scambio di Lettura

alla Biblioteca del British Institute 

The midwives at the Nativity

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Life after BREXIT Talk

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

ART STORIES - POGGIO BRACCIOLINI: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

It's Storytime! Bimwili and the Zimwi di Verna Aardema

alla Biblioteca del British Institute.

In collaborazione con Black History Month Florence

Tè in Biblioteca

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute

Some nineteenth-century literary visitors to Florence

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Lungarno Chats | Conversations with inspiring individuals

at the British Institute Library

Talking Pictures

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Tè in Biblioteca

Tè in Biblioteca

Florence and the changing concept of childhood

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

MUSIC AL BRITISH - Warwick Lister (violin) and James Gray (piano)

alla Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

Pierrot: a silent witness of changing times

alla Biblioteca del British Institute 

Talking Pictures

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Family&Kids Open Day alla Biblioteca del British

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Un mausoleo per i Medici: il Pollaiuolo nelle province

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute

ART STORIES - La Torre che Giotto non ha mai costruito

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Té in Biblioteca

Vi aspettiamo giovedì 9 gennaio per il primo Té in Biblioteca della stagione

The Orion Piano Trio

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Letture e Canti di Natale

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

It's Storytime! Dream Snow by Eric Carle

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Ultimo tè in Biblioteca prima della chiusura invernale

Biblioteca Harold Acton

String City 2019

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Special Fundraising Gala Concert

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Book signing con Julian Barnes

at the British Institute of Florence - Sala Lungarno

Mercatino Inglese di Natale

alla Biblioteca del British Institute 

Building a monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista

di Jason Houston 

ART STORIES SERIES - To Giorgio with Love:Vasari’s Lives of the Artists in the Age of Academic Painting

di Jeremy Boudreau

The boy bishop, the feast of fools and the feast of asses

di Mark Roberts

Talking Pictures...again

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute 

It's Storytime! Bee Makes Tea by Leslie Sims and Fred Blunt

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

The Pinocchio papers: what Italy’s best-loved fable tells us about the Italians and their country today

di John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna

ART STORIES SERIES - Urban safari: Lions, Giraffes, Monkeys and a Hippo in Renaissance Florence

di Jeremy Boudreau

Lungarno Chats | Conversations with inspiring individuals

at the British Insitute Library

Music al British

at the British Institute Library

Monsters and why we need them

di Charles Lambert 

Talking Pictures...again

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute 

Plautilla Nelli’s Last Supper

di Linda Falcone

ART STORIES SERIES - River Babies: Infant Navigators of the Historic Arno River Floods

di Jeremy Boudreau

Halloween Party! The Gruffalo's Child di Julia Donaldson e Axel Scheffler

Caramelle! Laboratorio creativo! Dolcetti&Tè!

A Royal Tourist in Florence

with Simon Gammell

Talking Pictures...again

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute 

Music al British

alla biblioteca del British Institute

The limits of medicine

con Duncan Geddes e Tonino Pieri

ART STORIES SERIES - Le Malattie dei Medici: Gotta, Colpi di cannone, Omicidio e Sifilide nell'albero genealogico dei Medici

di Jeremy Boudreau

How music learning and listening affect brain structure and function

di Piero Dolara

Talking Pictures....again

presso la Biblioteca del British Institute of Florence

The Villa Farnese at Caprarola and its gardens

di Paul Gwynne 

ART STORIES SERIES - Sculpture and Scrutiny: : Public Art and Public Opinion in Florence (Past and Present)

Unisciti alla lezione tenuta dal responsabile di Storia dell’Arte Jeremy Boudreau per il nostro primo giovedi sera di Art Stories.  

Music al British

The inaugural concert for our new Music al British series will feature acclaimed international violinist Elvira Bekova:

Elvira Bekova  -  Violin

Ivan Sokolov  -  Pianoforte

Book Aid International: the stories of our lives

di Kamin Mohammadi and Emma Taylor 

The Iranian writer and journalist Kamin Mohammadi joins Emma Taylor of the British-based charity Book Aid International to narrate inspiring stories about the importance of reading in our lives.

It's Storytime! The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr

Lettura e attività

Dignity through the Arts

Concert - Music for Migrants

Concerto di Fleur Snow e Morgan Overton

Musiche di Schubert, Mozart, Debussy e Satie

Town hall meeting with British nationals

Meeting for UK Nationals on citizens’ rights and EU Exit

Andrea del Verrocchio, master of Leonardo da Vinci

Conferenza in inglese di Arturo Galansino 

It's Storytime! THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN

Lettura e laboratorio

Insieme 200: celebrating 200 years of US diplomatic presence in Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Benjamin Wohlauer

La passione: how Italy seduced the world

Conferenza in inglese di Dianne Hales 

Scambio di lettura

Scambio di Letture

Death in Venice: corpses, cemeteries and Catholicism

Conferenza in inglese di Alex Bamji 

Vernon Lee 2019: An Anniversary Conference

British Institute of Florence (30 May) and Villa Il Palmerino (31 May)

The lady is a spy: Stan Harding in Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Melanie King 

Roma Britannica: Britain and the British in the Latin inscriptions of Rome

Conferenza in inglese di Tyler Lansford 

It's Storytime! DEAR ZOO by Rod Campbell

Lettura e attività

The Shepheardes Calender (World premiere performance)

Conferenza in inglese di David Salvage 

Resubstantiating antiquity: revival and architectural reuse in the Renaissance

Conferenza in inglese di Michael Waters 

Lettura in inglese per bambini - Leonardo da Vinci Fables and Legends

Lettura in inglese per bambini by Matilda Colarossi

SPECIALE STORYTIME PASQUALE! We are Going on an Egg Hunt. Illustrato da Laura Hughes

Lettura e caccia alle uova

Resurrection: the iconography of Easter

Conferenza in inglese di Mark Roberts

Spring Book Fair

Libri, oggetti di artigianato, té e dolci.

Killing Caesar

Conferenza in inglese di Simon Gammell

SHAKESPEARE WEEK 

Shakespeare Week 2019

Dal 9 al 12 aprile celebriamo William Shakespeare con una settimana di eventi culturali

Becoming Michelangelo

Conferenza in inglese di Alan Pascuzzi

Twenty-five years after the English translation of Carlo Rosselli’s ‘Socialismo Liberale’: meaning and prospective

Conferenza in inglese di Nadia Urbinati

Scambio di lettura

Scambio di Letture

Giuliano da Sangallo’s non-conformist Renaissance

Conferenza in inglese di Dario Donetti

Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

The US author JHUMPA LAHIRI will present the new Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

It's Storytime! Augustus and His Smile di Catherine Rayner

Lettura e laboratorio

Lovely faces: the biology of beauty

Conferenza in inglese di Duncan Geddes

SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CULTURAL SALON

LAUNCH EVENT

Howard Pyle: American master, studente di Firenze

Conferenza in inglese di Jeffrey Pike

The eyes that look: the secret story of Bassano’s ‘Hunting dogs’

Conferenza in inglese di Julia Grigg e Giuliana Ericani

THE DIGITAL TEACHER: improve your digital skills for language teaching

A workshop for teachers

A lecture for Black History Month Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Angelica Pesarini

It's Storytime... con un Musical in inglese per bambini: Dr. Giacomino’s Tiny Bookshop

Parole e musica di Franco Travaglio
con Mikela Rebua - Francesca Mura; M° Manuel Maccioni al pianoforte
Pupazzi realizzati da “La Tizzi Puppetsfactory”
Costumi e libro realizzati da “Annalisa Benedetti”

Two kings, two statutes, two hospitals: how Santa Maria Nuova inspired the creation of the Savoy Hospital in London

Conferenza in inglese di Manila Soffici

Leonardo da Vinci: beauty and utility

Conferenza in inglese di Sara Taglialagamba

Behind the Medici men: the ladies

Conferenza in inglese di Daniela Cavini

It's Storytime! THE SNOWY DAY by Ezra Jack Keats

Una storia sulla magia della prima neve.

Lettura e laboratorio creativo.

The writing on the walls: inscriptions in the streets of Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Graham Avery

Scambio di lettura

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 17 gennaio alle 16:00

Insieme200: celebrating 200 years of U.S. diplomatic presence in Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Benjamin Wohlauer

Economists and charlatans

Conferenza in inglese di David K. Levine

LA MUSICA E IL DOLCE STIL NOVO

Christmas comes but once a year

Evento natalizio - Staff e soci 

It's Storytime! The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Lettura e laboratorio natalizio

My father the poet Peter Russell

Conferenza in inglese di Sara Russell 

Mercatino inglese di Natale 2018

Presso la Harold Acton Library

Lotteria di Natale 2018

Presso la Harold Acton Library

Between Italy and Greece: letters across the Mediterranean Sea

Conferenza in inglese di Sara Moran 

Bella figura: how to live, love and eat the Italian way

Conferenza in inglese di Kamin Mohammadi 

Concert for the centenary of the First World War

Musica di Sinforosa Petralia (pianoforte) e Lea Galasso (violoncello)

It's Storytime! TROLL SWAP by Leigh Hodgkinson

Lettura in inglese e attività

Bernini, Benjamin West and the dirty secrets of art history

Conferenza in inglese di Loyd Grossman 

Bartolomeo Ammannati e le sue costruzioni a Firenze

Conferenza in italiano di Marco Calafati 

Women artists of the 1900s

Conferenza in inglese di Linda Falcone

Frankenreads

La Biblioteca del British Institute partecipa a Frankenreads

It's Storytime! DO NOT BUILD A FRANKENSTEIN di Neil Numberman

Lettura in inglese e laboratorio

Who gets the money, who gets the estate? Untying the knot of cross-border inheritance

Conferenza in inglese di Maria Grazia Antoci 

Scambio di lettura

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 18 ottobre alle 16:30

A Florentine composer between two worlds: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

Conferenza in inglese di Matteo Sansone

Stories of Italian migrants in the United Kingdom

Conferenza in inglese di Rino Garro

Muriel Spark: appointment in Arezzo/Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Alan Taylor 

Spine-tingling tales from the private library of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Conferenza in inglese di William Zachs

It's Storytime! THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT di Drew Daywalt

Lettura e attività in inglese

Egypt and Mesopotamia in John Alfred Spranger’s 1929-1936 photo reportages

Conferenza in inglese di Stefano Anastasio

Theatre, magic and philosophy: Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian legacy

Conferenza in inglese di Gabriela Dragnea Horvath

It's Storytime! THERE’S A TIGER IN THE GARDEN by Lizzie Stewart

Lettura e laboratorio

Remembering Iris Origo: her war diaries

Conferenza in inglese di Benedetta Origo and Katia Lysy

Monochrome: curating in black and white

Conferenza in inglese di Jennifer Sliwka

Scambio di lettura

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 7 giugno alle 16:00

“A mirror endowed with memory…” Photography, Artists & the Art Market in late 19C Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Lynn Catterson

Recitativo/Clouds and Noise – Fragments after Lucretius and Negri

Performance by David Ryan and musicians

Language of my choosing

Conferenza in inglese di Anne Pia

It's Storytime! FLOJTEFISKEN THE WHISTLING FISH

Lettura, canzoni e attività

Concerto di George Wilson e Natasha Hall

Musiche per pianoforte e violino di Mozart, Beethoven e Chausson

Florence and The Grand Tour

Conferenza in inglese di Mark Roberts

Due medici toscani del Settecento e i rapporti con la cultura britannica: il mugellano Antonio Cocchi e Michelangelo Giannetti da Barga

Conferenza in italiano di Manuele Bellonzi

‘Measure for Measure’ and the quest to overcome sexual tyranny

Shakespeare Week conferenza di Eric Nicholson

Shakespeare Week 2018

Measure for Measure

Art and the biology of consciousness

Conferenza in inglese di Duncan Geddes

Afternoon Tea di Pasqua

Tè, lettura per bambini e caccia alle uova 

Birth of a nation. Italian art from the postwar to 1968

Conferenza in inglese di Arturo Galansino

Climate change and the future of the Paris Agreement

Conferenza in inglese di Joanne Scott

It's Storytime! BUSY, BUSY WORLD by Richard Scarry

Lettura, canzoni e molto altro

Bernard Berenson and Asian art; Asian art and me

Conferenza in inglese di Carl Strehlke

Scambio di lettura - Giornata internazionale della donna

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 10 marzo alle 16:00

Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence, 1613-1620

Conferenza in inglese di Sheila Barker

The concept of modern art in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Conferenza in inglese di Robert Brennan

Il lato nascosto dell’ovvio (eccezionale, naturalmente).

Conferenza in italiano di Maria Luisa Ciminelli

It's Storytime! Outfoxed

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Concerto Alice Michahelles (pianoforte) e Francesca Taviani (violoncello)

Musica di Chopin, Vaughan Williams e Chaplin

Make art, not walls: a Black History Month Florence event

Conferenza in inglese di Virginia Ryan

The challenge of migration in the European Union

Conferenza in inglese di Caterina Francesca Guidi

Il ruolo dell'Inghilterra nel Risorgimento italiano

Conferenza in italiano di Giovanni Cipriani

It's Storytime! Paco & Camelia

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Love letters from Mount Rushmore

Conferenza in inglese di Richard Cerasani

Blurring the boundaries: Italian neo-realism and documentary film

Conferenza in inglese di Patrick Hazard

Christmas Fair 2017

Libri, oggetti d'artigianato e molto altro. Siete tutti invitati all'annuale Mercatino Natalizio in Biblioteca.

It's Storytime! Paddington e la Sorpresa di Natale

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Noel, Noel

Evento speciale per Natale con letture e carole a cura del nostro staff e dei membri dell'istituto

Serata di Gala anni Venti: Assassino sull'Orient Express

Serata di gala tema anni Venti con la proiezione di Assassino sull'Orient Express, con tanti premi in palio.

Italian political rhetoric

Conferenza in inglese di Franco Andreucci 

All other news (I mean lies): the forging of 17th-century news discourse in a sceptical news society

Conferenza in inglese di Nicholas Brownlees 

The archive of the British Institute of Florence

Conferenza in inglese di Alyson Price

It's Storytime! The Three Little Pigs

Lettura animata e laboratorio

An evening with the Chairman of the British Institute of Florence

Evento in inglese ospitato da Richard Jacques

A brief history of Virago Press

Conferenza in inglese di Lennie Goodings

Upon this rock by Mark Roberts

Presentazione del libro (in inglese)

Concerto di Margaret Bruce (pianoforte) e Dearbhla Nolan (tromba)

Musica di Schubert, Hansen, Liszt e altri

It's Storytime! The Tailor of Gloucester

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Visite reali a Firenze

Conferenza in italiano di Domenico Savini

Italian academies and their networks, 1525-1700

Conferenza in inglese di Simone Testa

Tè con vista

Per ricordare il trentesimo anniversario dell'amatissimo film Camera con vista e per celebrare la visita del regista James Ivory, il British Institute of Florence organizza un Tè con vista, nella biblioteca Harold Acton. 

Rooms and Views: filming in Florence with Merchant Ivory

Conferenza in inglese di Sarah Quill

EU-UK relations after Brexit

Conferenza in inglese di Renaud Dehousse

It's Storytime! Riccioli d’oro e i tre orsi di Robert Southey

Lettura animata e laboratorio

A Europe of states or a Europe of getting things done

Conferenza in inglese di Richard Rose

The character, legacy and genius of Michael Faraday

Conferenza in inglese di John Meurig Thomas

Ian Greenlees (Director 1958-1980) and his friendship with Norman Douglas

Conferenza in inglese di Mark Roberts

Herbert Percy Horne e la sua collezione

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Elisabetta Nardinocchi

Heading for the Exit: the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Helen Wallace

It's Storytime! Jerry’s Trousers by Nigel Boswall and David Melling

Lettura e attività

Bloomsday

Lettura pubblica dall'Ulisse di James Joyce

Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, in Florence and Rome

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Flora Fraser

Scambio di lettura

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 8 giugno alle 16:00

Relations between the United Kingdom and Italy: the past, the present and the future

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Jill Morris

British reactions to the bimillennium of Augustus, 1936-1937

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Christopher Smith

It's Storytime! Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd

Lettura e attività

Renaissance tapestries and textile diplomacy

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Jeremy Boudreau

An Englishman in New York

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Bill Jacklin

The marvels of Clarence Bicknell

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Graham Avery e Marcus Bicknell

Picasso and the meaning of Guernica

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Robin Blake

It's Storytime! The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Lettura e attività

The English and the Uffizi: three centuries of cultural exchange

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Eike Schmidt

Richard III and representations of tyranny in Shakespeare and early modern drama

Conferenza in inglese per la Shakespeare Week a cura di Martin White

Shakespeare Week 2017

Richard III

Shakespeare in White

Mostra di Lorenzo Perrone alla Biblioteca Harold Acton (3 aprile-26 maggio 2017)

I miei maestri: gli scrittori che mi hanno formato

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Marco Vichi

In the Name of the Family

Lancio italiano del nuovo romanzo di Sarah Dunant.

Heritage: who needs it?

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Loyd Grossman

It's Storytime! The Story of Miss Moppet

Lettura e attività

Adventures in ‘artigianato’

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Eve Borsook

Scambio di lettura

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 9 marzo alle 16:00

A talk for International Women’s Day

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Julia Race

The magic of books or the magic of Facebook?

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Giuliano Amato

Storie e storia: scritture africane come fonte

Conferenza in italiano per il mese della storia dei neri a cura di Maria Stella Rognoni

It's Storytime! The Cat in the Hat

Lettura e attività

Inglesi ingessati - gessi nella collezione Bartolini della Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Cecilie Hollberg

Playful pictures: art and carnival culture under Lorenzo de’ Medici

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Chriscinda Henry

Mostra - Black History Month Florence

Mostra in biblioteca a cura di Leon Jones (SACI MFA)

Rock and roll diplomacy: how American music influenced the Rolling Stones, and how the Stones changed America

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Abigail Rupp

The outlook for the European economy and financial markets

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Lorenzo Bini Smaghi 

It's Storytime! “Guess how much I love you”

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Caravaggio and the guardian of mercy

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Terence Ward

President Trump: the path to the White House and his prospects

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Federico Romero

It's Storytime! Pooh’s Christmas Adventure

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Readers and musicians

Letture e musiche natalizie, with mince pies

Ai Weiwei a Firenze

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Arturo Galansino

Christmas Fair 2016

Libri, oggetti d'artigianato e molto altro. Siete tutti invitati all'annuale Mercatino Natalizio in Biblioteca.

The UK and Europe post the referendum

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Brigid Laffan

Per Edward Gordon Craig nel cinquantenario della morte (1966-2016)

Convegno internazionale di studi a cura dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze

Edward Gordon Craig

Convegno internazionale di studi - Teatro della Pergola

From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Marco Solinas

It's Storytime! There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey

Lettura animata e laboratorio

The 1966 flood: an eye-witness account

Part of the Month of Mud

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Swietlan Kraczyna

L’alluvione a Firenze: sgomento e riscatto di una città

Part of the Month of Mud

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Bruno Santi

Responses to the 1966 Florence flood

Part of the Month of Mud

Presentazione degli eventi organizzati dal British Institute of Florence

Why save Florence? A film-maker reflects on the 1966 flood

Part of the Month of Mud

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Roger Graef

It's Storytime! (Not so) Scary Monsters

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Writing history, creating a dynasty: the sacred work of Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Conferenza in inglese a cura di John Hoenig

Month of Mud

A novembre si ricordano i 50 anni dalla peggiore all’alluvione che la città di Firenze abbia vissuto dal 1557. Il British Institute of Florence partecipa all’anniversario con numerosi eventi.   

‘Think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically’: the films of Bernardo Bertolucci

Conferenza in inglese a cura di James Sholto Douglas

Du iu spik inglish?

Presentazione del libro di Alessandro Gualtieri

The organ at the Badia Fiorentina: an instrument of European importance

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Robin Walker 

Scambio di lettura

presso la Biblioteca Harold Acton

The Olympic spirit: citius, altius, fortius

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Michael Griffiths

In biblioteca 2016: dire no alla violenza

Mostra: Children of the nineteenth century: Henry Mayhew and Charles Dickens

The paradox of the democratic Prince: Machiavelli and political leadership in contemporary democracies

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Richard Bellamy

Giornata Europea delle Lingue - 2016

Quiz a premi e sconti sui corsi e sulle iscrizioni alla Biblioteca

Lombard bankers in London

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Francesco Guidi Bruscoli

It's Storytime! The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Lettura animata e laboratorio

L'Europa dopo Brexit

Conferenza in inglese a cura di BIll Emmott

Romeo e Giulietta

Sconti speciali per studenti e soci dell'Istituto.

Castello dell'Acciaiolo - Scandicci; Teatro della Pergola – Firenze

L’immagine delle ville medicee: le lunette Utens

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Alessandra Griffo

Bloomsday - Lettura pubblica dall'Ulisse

Primo Levi: chemistry, literature and memory

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Luigi Dei

It's Storytime! The Gruffalo

Lettura animata, film and laboratorio

Scambio di lettura

presso la Biblioteca Harold Acton

Lear

Sconti speciali per studenti e soci dell'Istituto.

Teatro della Pergola – Firenze

The myth of republicanism in Renaissance Italy

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Fabrizio Ricciardelli

Conferenza in lingua inglese: Water, architecture and the city in Renaissance Italy

‘I am not what I am’: hidden identities in Shakespeare’s plays

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Luigi Giannitrapani

Tè con Sarah Dunant: “From the mind to the page: the birthing pains of a new novel”

Alla Biblioteca Harold Acton

Bernard Berenson and tactile values

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Marion Thain

Battlefield

Sconti speciali per studenti e soci dell'Istituto.

Teatro della Pergola – Firenze

From Florence to South Kensington to New York: J. Pierpont Morgan’s bronze doors

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Lynn Catterson

Three (and a half) collectors in early 20th-century Florence: Acton, Loeser and Horne (and Langton Douglas)

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Mark Roberts

Alfred The Time Traveling Dinosaur

Lettura animata e laboratorio

Ferdinando Tacca: a theatre cast in bronze

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Anthea Brook

Il Maggio dei Libri

1-31 maggio 2016

A recital of music by Beethoven, De Falla and Brahms

Concerto del Duo Goldenberg

Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Conversazione con Margherita Ghilardi. Letture di Ilda Rosati.

Speaking Shakespeare in the English-speaking cinema

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Russell Jackson

Shakespeare Week

Shakespeare and Italy

Sweet Dreams, Honey Bear

Lettura animata in lingua inglese

Cities of the Levant: a warning from history?

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Philip Mansel

It's Storytime! Stories for Children Read by Children

7 aprile 2016 - 17:00

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Concerto: il Maestro Oleg Caetani con l'Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

The trial of Jesus

Conferenza doppia in inglese a cura di Joseph Weiler

It's Storytime! Indian Storytelling

17 marzo 2016 - 17:00

Un critico riflette sul cinema italiano

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Giovanni Bogani

Scambio di lettura

Il prossimo Scambio di Letture si terrà presso la Biblioteca giovedì 10 marzo alle 16:00

Dante and Lady Philosophy

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Andrew Frisardi

De tous les livres celui que je préfère est mon passeport

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Julia Race

Pictures, words and the imagination in Cimabue’s Vita Christi

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Holly Flora

Middle-ground morals for Middle Sea migrants

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Martino Traxler

Mostra - Emma di Jane Austen

Art: mirror of the soul

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Richard W. Serrin

It's Storytime! I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!

Lettura e laboratori

Afternoon Tea alla Biblioteca Harold Acton

Ogni giovedì alle 16:30

Wines in opera: dithyrambs, brindisi and mischief

Conferenza e musiche in inglese a cura di Matteo Sansone e Tanya Di Rienzo

Nature’s secretaries: Renaissance women and the art of writing artless letters

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Lisa Kaborycha

It's Storytime! Room on the broom

Racconti, laboratori, canzoncine in rima e molto altro ancora!

Escape to Italy: D.H. Lawrence remembers his elopement with Frieda

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Ross Robins

Afternoon Tea alla Biblioteca Harold Acton

What is reading but silent conversation? – Walter Savage Landor

Concerto di Carla Giometti (soprano) e Adriano Sebastiani (chitarra)

Musica di Giuliani, Schubert, Dowland, Britten e altri.

The procession of the Three Kings

Conferenza natalizia in inglese a cura di Mark Roberts

It's Storytime at the Harold Acton Library!

Racconti, laboratori, canzoncine in rima e molto altro ancora!

Giovedì 10 dicembre alle 17:00: Lettura, film d'animazione e laboratorio – The Snowman di Raymond Briggs

A reading of his poems, a performance of his music

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Baret Magarian

La liberazione della Donna: music, theatre and sexual politics in early Seicento Florence

Conferenza in inglese con musica a cura di John Hoenig

Reading and Values

Sessione di formazione per insegnanti con Nina Prentice che presenterà the Official Read On! Theme per il 2016

Senza parole: comunicare coi gesti in Italia

Conferenza a cura di Massimo Castagna

Il Viaggio dei Romantici alla Ricerca della Felicità

Conferenza in italiano a cura di Luigi Giannitrapani

It's Storytime at the Harold Acton Library!

Racconti, laboratori, canzoncine in rima e molto altro ancora!
Gli eventi si svolgono una volta al mese, sono in lingua inglese, e si tengono nella stanza dei bambini della Biblioteca Harold Acton del British Institute.

When the world answered: Florence, women artists and the 1966 flood

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Linda Falcone

Translation as ethical hospitality

Conferenza in inglese: Franca Cavagnoli

Corruption in late Republican Rome

Conferenza in inglese a cura di Valentina Arena

Looking beyond the Renaissance: modern Florence (1865-2015)

Conferenza in inglese a cura di David e Ann Wilkins