Still places available for the Italian language group courses starting on February 7th 2008. Courses will take place in the morning from Monday to Friday. Our courses are aimed at improving your Italian and they are carefully structured to develop your fluency and accuracy. Non-beginner students can start their course on any Monday. It is […]
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On 18th December 2007 a committee of the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, proposed by Italian government. A “resolution” is a final decision of an assembly. Especially for the United Nations it is the main juridical act not legally binding, but only […] The Sleepwalker is an opera in two acts set in music by Vincenzo Bellini in the libretto I Felice Romani. The big composer wrote it in two months and, together with “The Puritan” and “Norma”, it is considered to be one of the most significant and classic of bellini. At the end of the first […] Have you ever heard talk of Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster? Have you ever read the story of Saint George, of the princess of the dragon? The dragon was always an imaginary creature present in the fantasies of man. The name dragon comes from the Greek drákōn, of the verb dérkomai that means “to fasten […] When one thinks of Italy, one thinks, one also unfortunately thinks of the mafia. This word is probably and unfortunately one of the most exported of the entire peninsula. But what is truly known of this problem? The Italians themselves often settle the question by recognizing that it is a socio-economic curse but after all […] Several universities and colleges nowadays encourage, and even require, students to take some time abroad to complement their course of study and experience the world around them, they often grant transfer credit for programmes that are not directly sponsored by their university. The Accademia del Giglio recommends that students who would like to receive credit […] Art classes are starting again soon at Accademia del Giglio in the centre of Florence. From January 7th drawing and painting techniques will be taught both in English and in Italian by the Art teacher Gianparide Moretti, in the Art studio of the school. The complete course in Art is divided into 9 units […] Here is a short description of the project Adgblog, which has received the European Label 2007 last December 20th at the Italian Ministry of Education in Rome. The project The blogs can be considered as a new form of communication, which thanks to their user-friendliness and ease of maintenance, editing and updating encourage greater […] The beautiful castle of Poppi lies in the north-east of Tuscany, in the upper Arno valley called the Casentino. It was probably built during the period of the Longobards and the Franks invasions of Italy (9th Century), and in the middle age it became the residence of the feudal family, the Counts Guidi. Today […] On Wednesday 20th at the Italian Ministry of Education in Rome the European Label 2007 was awarded to Adgblog for being an innovative project in language teaching and learning. At the ceremony, which took place in the room of the “Consiglio Superiore”, Serena Bedini and Lorenzo Capanni collected the prize as representatives of the entire […] |
 
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