#INSIDE - Milan. "Il genio di Milano. Crocevia delle arti dalla Fabbrica del Duomo al Novecento"

#INSIDE - Milan, a series of meetings to coincide with the exhibition Il genio di Milano.Crocevia delle arti dalla Fabbrica del Duomo al Novecento.

WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2024 - The allure of Milan's urban planning: Leonardo in town - Curated by and with Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana - speaker: Prefect Mons. Marco Navoni

THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 2024 - Milan, light on the talents of ballet - Curated by Francesca Pedroni, with Alice Mariani - Prima Ballerina del Teatro alla Scala

THURSDAY, 16 JANUARY 2025 - The Great Milan by Strehler - Edited by Giovanni Caccamo with Giulia Lazzarini

THURSDAY '23 JANUARY 2025 - One hundred years of radio, seventy of television: Italy on the air - Edited by Aldo Grasso with Monica Maggioni

THURSDAY, 30 JANUARY 2025 - Bar Jamaica. The legendary meeting place of great artists in Milan - Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero

THURSDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2025 - Not only Stendhal! Milan, the city of writers - Edited by the Circle of Readers and the National Center for Manzonian Studies, dialogue together with Antonio Franchini, Marco Missiroli and Federica Manzon, moderated by Mauro Novelli

THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2025 - 1585 Milan: four young Japanese about town - Curated by and with Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana - speaker: Mons. Alberto Rocca

THURSDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2025 - Milan at the center of the musical stage - Davide Boosta Dileo talks with Mario Manca 

Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: curated by and with Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, speaker  Prefect Mons. Marco Navoni

The face of Milan has been graced by the contribution of many renowned artists over the centuries. Da Vinci, an illustrious guest since 1482, contributed to shaping the urban soul beginning with the Codex Atlanticus, preserved in the Venerable Ambrosian Library. Mons. Marco Navoni, Prefect of the great institution created by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, will guide us through the discovery of the remarkable project on Milan not only by talking about Leonardo. An opportunity to reflect on the planning and magic of making this city great, based on documentary evidence.

Date: Thursday 12 December 2024
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: curated by Francesca Pedroni, with Alice Mariani

Milan and the ballet: a long-standing love affair, dating back more than two hundred years, with its heart in the Teatro alla Scala and its Accademy. Ever since the theatre was founded in 1778, ballet has been at home at La Scala, which became a breeding ground for talent in 1813 with the creation of the “Imperial Regia Accademia”. Year after year, the Scuola di Ballo dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala has trained young artists, welcoming boys and girls within its walls. All from Milan? No: many students have come to Milan over the decades from all over Italy: Lecce, Potenza, Salerno, Palermo, Turin, Rome and Florence, but also from foreign countries, including Japan, Russia, Ukraine, France and Brazil in recent years. All with the dream of becoming a star of the ballet. Many of them become part of the Corps de Ballet of La Scala, others take flight for foreign countries or for other Italian Ballet Companies, strengthened by their training at the Scuola di Ballo dell'Accademia. And others, trained or artistically developed abroad, are welcomed to Milan by La Scala, which showcases their talent.

Date: Thursday 16 January 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: curated by Giovanni Caccamo with Giulia Lazzarini

Italy's first permanent theatre, founded on 14 May 1947 by Giorgio Strehler, Paolo Grassi and his wife Nina Vinchi Grassi, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano is still a point of reference for theatre lovers. Giorgio Strehler, an eclectic and highly prolific personality, is considered one of the most representative directors of European theatre. Giulia Lazzarini, an actress of outstanding talent, chosen by Strehler as the first actress and face of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Shakespeare's “The Tempest” and Beckett's “Happy Days”, will tell stories and anecdotes, talking to the artist Giovanni Caccamo.

Date: Thursday 23 January 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: curated by Aldo Grasso with Monica Maggioni

“Viva la RAI, ci fa crescere sani!” are the words of a song by Renato Zero celebrating the impact of public television on the Italian people. Television has profoundly transformed the cultural and social landscape of our country over the years. Television critic Aldo Grasso will be talking to journalist Monica Maggioni to retrace seventy years of television, from its origins to the first RAI broadcast, amidst anecdotes and documents that tell the story of the evolution of our customs and language.

Date: Thursday 30 January 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: curated by Luca Massimo Barbero

The legendary art of the Seventies. A journey through time to rediscover the Caffè degli Artisti, in the heart of Milan, where friendships and movements were born. A great scholar of Art will help us rediscover that fertile and creative period.

Date: Thursday 06 February 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: organised by the Circolo dei Lettori and the Centro Nazionale Studi Manzoniani, Antonio Franchini, Marco Missiroli and Federica Manzon converse together, with the moderation of Mauro Novelli

On his grave in Paris, Stendhal wanted to be remembered as being “Milanese”. Arriving in the Milanese capital in 1800, he fell in love with the city, its parties, its atmosphere and a young countess who rejected him. A century and a half later, another writer, Luciano Bianciardi, in his “La vita agra”, even imagined blowing up the Pirellone building. Between these two “modern” extremes, Milan continues, now more than ever, to be an attractive beacon for those who want to write or work in the glittering publishing industry. Countless other names could be listed: Verga, Vittorini, Ottieri, Scerbanenco, Lalla Romano…

Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: curated by and with Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana – speaker: Mons. Alberto Rocca

In 1585, four young Japanese men arrived in Milan accompanied by a Portuguese Jesuit. Milan was a stop on a very long journey, the purpose of which was to gain a direct knowledge of the customs and traditions of the European continent. The people of Milan were enthusiastic about it, and it is in Milan, at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, that a handwritten codex which is not only a valuable record of this visit, but also gives us the oldest portraits of these young men from the Land of the Rising Sun, is kept.

Date: Thursday 27 February 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting 
Speakers: Davide Boosta Dileo talks to Mario Manca

Despite its very ancient roots, the relationship between Milan and music could not be richer and more flourishing, considering that the city has not only been the stage for historic concerts like those of the Beatles (1965), Led Zeppelin (1971), Bob Marley (1980) and, more recently, Taylor Swift (2024), but is still a beacon for the Italian and international music industry. Where, however, does this ferment come from and, above all, how far will it go? Davide Boosta Dileo, keyboard player and co-founder of the band Subsonica, and Mario Manca, journalist for Vanity Fair, talk about the union that links music and Milan through a journey of confirmation and discovery.