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Artistic words for the Festival d'Europa
On the occasion of the Festival d’Europa, the journal MCM-La storia delle cose publishes an issue devoted to the artistic and cultural relationships always existing between Italy and the other European countries. The journal, freely available during the whole Festival d’Europa in Florence, intends to think back to the evident link between Italy, Europe and Florence through great art masterpieces – from tapestries to works in semi-precious stones, from the goldsmith's art to glass-making, through painting, sculpture, miniature and architecture.
In this issue, a particular importance will be given to design, currently one of the most important forms of art, which has introduced objects of great artistic and technical significance in the daily life of many European and non-European citizens, giving birth to a borderless cultural and aesthetic mass communion. Therefore, art as an instrument to respect but also to go beyond and combine identities and differences.
Workshop on legal information in the EU on the occasion of the Festival d’Europa
The accessibility of legal information in the EU and its importance for the exercise of the rights of European citizens is the subject of a workshop taking place in Florence on the occasion of the Festival d’Europa on Friday 6th May at the Palagio di Parte Guelfa at 9.30 am. The initiative is promoted by the ITTIG, the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council, with the purpose of presenting the results of some initiatives and projects aimed at fostering the diffusion and knowledge of legal information. The subject affects the daily and professional life of all citizens and, therefore, the meeting is aimed at a public broader than the specialists of the sector only.
Among the protagonists are some experts who will present specific projects such as a representative of the European Union Publication Office and the representatives of the national governmental Offices working for the diffusion of legal information.
Collecting Europe, Conferenze and visit to the Museo Stibbert
On May 10, from 4 p.m. onwards at the Museo Stibbert there will be a short conference on Frederick Stibbert, a citizen of Europe, and a visit to the Museum that hosts all collections that the Florence-born British Citizen bequeathed to the city, in particular the weapons collection but also many pieces of art and everyday life of the European, Islamic and Far East (especially Japanese) civilizations.
The theme of the conference will be the creation of the Museum by the collector, who was also a traveller and a man of the world, who had been in all countries of Europe and was a symbol of internationalism not restricted by the limits of our continent but roamed also in the Middle and Far East.
The Festival d'Europa pays homage to Franz Liszt
An author that in his works has “spoken” about Europe with passion and skill. This author is Hungarian composer Franz Liszt who, in his most important piano compositions has highlighted his belonging to the cosmopolitan European dimension developed through frequent travels in the European continent. The Festival dell’Europa dedicates, in the bicentennial of the composer's birth, a concert featuring Riccardo Sandiford on the piano. The concert will be held on May 9 afternoon at the Lyceum Club Internazionale in Via degli Alfani and will feature major Liszt works with inherently innovative nature like the Sonata in B minor or the “diaries” of Liszt’s travels in Switzerland and Italy, masterfully made music in the Years of pilgrimage, where European nature, art and culture are paid homage by the great Hungarian musician.
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