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Stefano Albertini

I was born in Bozzolo (litterally 'cocoon') in the Northern Italian province of Mantova 54 years ago. I obtained my degree from the University of Parma, after which I moved to the other side of the ocean and obtained my Master’s from the University of Virginia and my Ph.D from Stanford. I have been teaching at New York University (NYU) since 1994, and I have been running the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò of NYU, since 1998. At the Casa, we organize more than one hundred events annually, including exhibitions, conferences, concerts and theatrical performances. My personal passion, however, continues to be teaching: I created a course on the cinematographic portrayal of Italian history, and one on Machiavelli in its historical context. I also run the NYU program in Florence every summer. I continue to have a close and visceral relationship with my town of origin, and 2 years ago, I founded the Academy of the Bozzolese Dialect to conserve and promote the local culture.

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Francis to Gay People: “God Doesn’t Just Tolerate or Accept You. God Loves You”

The documentary became a global sensation because of Pope Francis’s openness to civil unions for gay people, yet the documentary itself paints a larger picture of this pontificate. There was no shortage of criticism by those who seek to minimize his thoughts, but ignore those who don’t wish to understand his message and watch the film instead. You will see that Francis' message does not require parsing or explanation, for it contains the beauty and essence of the Gospel.

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Museo degli Innocenti: Entrepreneurs Who Donated Beauty Even to the Most Humble

The silk makers were well travelled business people, but they were also conscious of their responsibilities and believed that the poor, in this case the abandoned children, had as much right to beauty as others. They entrusted the responsibility for the construction of the institution to Filippo Brunelleschi. It would be as if today the Italian Merchants Association, la Confindustria, entrusted a project for the welcoming of migrants to Renzo Piano.

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Coronavirus? Careful with Your Heart! Life-saving Warning from Prof. Albertini

The thing that struck me most in the few days of my hospitalization was the staff's attitude towards the patients. I had feared that the Covid19 emergency and the additional stress from overwork might have made everyone tense and irritable; instead, I found myself in a place in which I felt that anyone who attended us at our bedside did so with all of themselves and gave us the time needed not only to check on us and treat us, but also to listen to us, understand our fears and perhaps even play them down with a joke.

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“It Will Be Chaos” Makes You Live the Ordeal of Migrants Without the Rhetoric

It Will Be Chaos is a patient documentary asking the right questions about the "after", devoid of the stock images depicting the migrant landings and shipwrecks that bounced all over global media and were immediately exploited to underpin the rhetoric of xenophobia and invasion. It concentrates on the individual paths of a few individuals, with a focus on their hopes, fears, and daily lives.

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With Andy Warhol from A to B and back again… to the Future!

Until March 31, an exhibition on the artistic genius that had an extraordinary influence on our tastes and our ways of relating to one other, an influence that persists more than 30 years after his death. Warhol, who in New York always went around with a voice recorder and a camera (like us today with our smartphones), not only forever revolutionized art, but also had a lasting and rippling effect on our way of communicating for decades to come.

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