2024 Events
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May 13th, 2024: Presentation of Rupert Brooke: Lo splendore delle ombre,
Società Letteraria di Verona, Verona, with Annamaria Trombetta e Daniela Zumiani, 5.30 pm
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May 7th: Presentation of Rupert Brooke: Lo splendore delle ombre, Ares, Milan, 6.30 pm, with Bruno Nacci
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April 17th: “200 anni dalla morte di Lord Byron", in collaboration with the Italian Byron Society: Paola Tonussi, Nicola Guerini and Silvio Pozzani”, Società Letteraria di Verona, Verona, 5.30 pm
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March 13th: Presentation of Sulle Rovine d’Europa, by and with Raoul Precht, Libreria Pagina 12, Verona
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March 1st: presentation of War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra, Società dei Militi di Cremona, Cremona, with Francesco Paolo Truglia and Giulio Solzi Gaboardi
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January 19th: “The Truth and Pity of War”, Sapienza University of Rome
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January 17-18th “ByronNow”, 4th edition, Ca’ Bernardo, Ca’ Foscari, Venice
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2023 Events
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Fondazione Toniolo - “War Poets” (Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegried Sassoon, Harold Monro, Laurence Binyon, Ivor Gurney) – 6 incontri
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“ByronNow” 2023, 3rd edition: January 18th, 2023 – Ca’ Bernardo, Ca’ Foscari, Venice
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January 25th, Presentation of War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale,
Società Letteraria of Verona, Verona, 5.30 pm, with Cinzia Bigliosi and Professor Angelo Righetti
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January 26th, Presentation of War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale, Ares, Milan, with Bruno Nacci
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March 10th, Presentation of War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale, Fondazione Malagutti, Curtatone - Mantova
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May 12nd: presentation of War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale, Centro Relazioni Culturali del Comune di Ravenna, Ravenna
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May 8th: Radio Spada, Luca Fumagalli reviews War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale
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May 20th: presentation of Il Processo degli animali contro l’uomo, Libreria Esoterica, Milan, with Cristina De Piante
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June 2nd: interview by Emanuela Borgatta Dunnett on War Poets – nelle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale
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July 12nd: presentation of La casa di Claudine (De Piante, 2022), “La Piccola Fenice”, Varese, with Silvio Raffo
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December 7th: Presentation of Il Processo degli animali contro l’uomo, Libreria Massari, Castelfranco Veneto, with Cristina De Piante.
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2022 Events
Fondazione Toniolo “Dinastie inglesi” – 6 incontri
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October 25th, Presentation of Gli amanti legati, by Davide Brullo,
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2021 Events
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October 9th, 2021: presentation of Emily Brontë (Salerno, 2019), Corte dell’Arte, Venice
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Fondazione Toniolo “Re, regine e Muse” – 6 incontri
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2020 Events
October, 4th: Premio Comisso, Treviso: Emily Brontë is one of the three finalists in the Biography Section
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2019 Events
Presentation: Presentation: Emily Brontë (Salerno Editrice 2019), Lìbrati, Libreria delle donne, Padova,
4th October 2019, 18.00 pm
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IL CONVIVIO: lectures
Polyclinic "G.B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona
John Keats and the nightingale at Hampstead garden, 7th October 2019, 10.30 am
William Wordsworth revisiting Tintern Abbey, 4th November 2019, 10.30 am
Lord Byron and the sea: the sense of the divine, 2nd December 2019, 10.30 am
Josif Brodskij and Venice ,10th May 2019, 10.00 am
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Presentation of Ho cercato di scrivere paradiso: Ezra Pound nelle parole della figlia:conversazioni con Mary de Rachewiltz by Alessandro Rivali
Società Letteraria - Verona, 7th May 2019, 17.30 pm
Boonrod: presentation
Agorà degli scrittori, Festival Letterario Soave Città del libro,14th April 2019, 12.30 pm
Charlotte and Emily Brontë: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - 6 incontri
Fondazione G. Toniolo www.fondazionetoniolo.it
2018 Events
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona
«Vispa, irrequieta, permalosetta»: la Pisana nelle Confessioni di un italiano di Ippolito Nievo, 12th September, 10.00 am.
Charles Dickens in Verona(Italian Pictures) , 10th October, 10.00 am.
Amy Dorrit: sfondi veneziani in Little Dorrit, 21th November, 10.00 am.
A strong wish for wings: The life of the Brontës. 6 incontriFondazione Giuseppe Toniolowww.fondazionetoniolo.it
2017 Events
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
Dickens in Verona
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona, 13th November, 10.00 am.
"Dickens and Stendhal travellers in Verona" - Paola Tonussi and Cinzia Bigliosi
La Feltrinelli, Via IV Spade, Verona
from: Sognatori, poeti e viaggiatori (Salerno-Antenore, 2017),24th October, 18.30 pm
"Dickens and Stendhal travellers in Verona" - Paola Tonussi and Cinzia Bigliosi, from: Sognatori, poeti e viaggiatori (Salerno-Antenore, 2017),
La Feltrinelli, Via IV Spade, 24th October, 18.30 pm, Verona
"Byron in Verona" with Gregory Dowling (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Sala Impero - Due Torri Hotel, Verona
from: Sognatori, poeti e viaggiatori (Salerno-Antenore, 2017), 20th October, 17.00 pm
"Scipio Slataper: Il mio Carso"
Società Dante Alighieri, Vienna,13th October, 18.00 pm
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
"A different heroine": Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona,25th September, 10.00 am
A book against Yulin and the DMT: Presentation: Boonrod 12th June, Treebar, Via Flaminia 226, Rome, 5 pm.
Fatti di lettura - Incontro d'autore: Paola Tonussi with John Francis Phillimore: Boonrod. 11th May, The Kolbe Theatre, Venice Mestre, 5.30 pm.
Enrico Peruzzi (Verona University): "Boonrod, a dog, a novel". 8th May 2017, Rotary Club, Circolo Ufficiali, Castelvecchio Verona, 8.30 pm.
The Brontës
Paola Tonussi: "Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey, 170 years after the publication"
Sergio Perosa (Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature): "Governesses and passion"
3rd April 2017, Literary Society of Verona, 07.30 pm
Presentation of the novel Boonrod
In collaboration with LAV - fundraising event, 21st March, Antico Caffè San Marco - Triest, 7.00 pm.
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"Qua la zampa": meeting students, animal and nature lovers.
Organised by Arts Studio Verona (www.artsstudio.it) and LAV (Anti Vivisection League) with the Patronage of the City of Verona.
Speaking: Giorgia Palmano, Donatella Ceccon, Paola Tonussi, 11th March, Gran Guardia - Verona, 9.00-11.00 am.
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Presentation of the novel Boonrod
In collaboration with LAV - fundraising event, 13th March, Minotauro Bookshop - Verona, 6.00 pm.
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
The Brontës: "A web of sunny air"
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona, 2nd February, 10.00 am
"L'Arena di Noè"-TV programme by Elisabetta Gallina
Boonrod's Story, 15th January, Telearena, 6.30 pm
2016 Events
Will Young and Friends of Soi Dog Foundation
Reading: Rainbow Bridge - Chester Cathedral, Chester, UK
14th December 2016, 21.00 pm
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Writers and Students: "Firmino Club"
Presentation of the novel Boonrod, in collaboration with "E. Medi" High School, LAV (Anti Vivisection League) Verona
Villafranca Town Library, Villafranca (Verona), 6th December, 17.30 pm
Presentation: Boonrod
Literary Journalistic Award Piersanti Mattarella
Sala della Protomoteca, Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
20th November 2016, 3.00 pm
Presentation: Boonrod
"Meeting authors": "Primo Levi" Cultural Centre, S. Stino di Livenza - Venice (Italy) ,17th November 2016, 3.00 pm
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
Charles Dickens: Italian Pictures
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona, 11th November, 10.00 am
Presentation: Boonrod
La Feltrinelli, Brescia (Italy)
17th June 2016, 6:00 pm
Presentation: Boonrod
Società Letteraria Verona, in collaboration with Soi Dog Foundation, Phuket, Thailand
25th May 2016, 7:00 pm
with Mario Tedeschi Turco, Professor of Italian Literature and Paola Colaprisco, Journalist