2019 News & Events
Presentation: Emily Brontë
Libreria Trame - Bologna
28th February 2020, 18.00 pm
Presentation: Emily Brontë
Libreria "Virginia & Co" - Monza
31st January 2020, 21.00 pm
Presentation: Emily Brontë
"Il divano rosso" Libreria Pagina 12 -Verona
17th January 2020, 18.30 pm
with Cinzia Bigliosi
Presentation: Emily Brontë
Libreria del Convegno - Cremona
22nd November 2019, 18.00 pm
Presentation: Emily Brontë
Libreria Editrice Goriziana - Gorizia
15th November 2019, 18.00 pm
Presentation: Emily Brontë,
Società Letteraria - Verona
14th October 2019, 18.00 pm
With Angelo Righetti and Cinzia Bigliosi
"BORN IN STARS WE LIVE ON EARTH AS POETS" (William Blake) -
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS
Fondazione Toniolo - Verona
The first generation
1. William Blake: when poetry creates myths – The chimneysweeper. Before Dickens, a crude criticism of the «evils of industrialization».
1st October 2019, 16.00 pm
2. William Wordsworth: happiness in nature – passages from Tintern Abbey and The Prelude, the conception of poetry as an aesthetic and a moral code.
8th October 2019, 16.00 pm
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a story of guilt and final redemption – The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner, where the protagonist learns to love «all the creatures that God has made».
15th October 2019, 16.00 pm
The second generation
4. John Keats: a garden, the song of a nightingale and the sense of infinitude – Ode to the Nightingale: «a thing of beuty is a joy forever».
22nd October 2019, 16.00 pm
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley: friendship and memories of the past. Passages from Adonais - his sorrow for Keats' premature death - and Julian e Maddalo - his friendship with Byron in Venice.
29th October 2019, 16.00 pm
6. Lord Byron: “Ave Maria” from Don Juan. At Ravenna the poet's love for nature becomes song, elegy, communion with the divine.
5th November 2019, 16.00 pm
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Presentation: Emily Brontë, Salerno Editrice 2019
Lìbrati, Libreria delle donne di Padova
4th October 2019, 18.00 pm
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
John Keats and the nightingale at Hampstead garden: Eternity of and in nature.
7th October 2019, 10.30 am
William Wordsworth revisiting Tintern Abbey: the power of memory.
4th November 2019, 10.30 am
Lord Byron and the sea: the sense of the divine.
2nd December 2019, 10.30 am
Polyclinic "G.B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona
2018 Events
IL CONVIVIO: lectures
«Vispa, irrequieta, permalosetta»: la Pisana nelle Confessioni di un italiano di Ippolito Nievo. Una protagonista moderna.
12th September, 10.00 am.
Charles Dickens viaggiatore a Verona: «immagini vaghe - solo ombre sull’acqua...» da Quadri italiani.
10th October, 10.00 am.
Amy Dorrit, ovvero «la piccola signora inglese che è sempre sola»: sfondi veneziani in Little Dorrit.
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona
21th November, 10.00 am.
A strong wish for wings: The life of the Brontës. 6 incontri
Fondazione Giuseppe Toniolo
www.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
"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 at the eve of Yulin:
Presentation of Boonrod and the project of Soi Dog Italia
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 at 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.
"Qua la zampa": meeting students, animal and nature lovers.
Organised by Arts Studio Verona (www.artsstudio.it), in collaboration with LAV (Anti Vivisection League) and other animalist associations.
With the Patronage of the City of Verona.
Speaking: Giorgia Palmano (Theologician), Donatella Ceccon (LAV Education), Paola Tonussi (Writer)
11th March, Gran Guardia - Verona, 9.00-11.00 am.
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
https://www.facebook.com/groups/285363178495163/permalink/315091402189007/
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 of the novel Boonrod
Literary Journalistic Award Piersanti Mattarella
professor Enrico Peruzzi, University of Verona
Sala della Protomoteca, Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
20th November 2016, 3.00 pm
Presentation of the novel 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, from Verona to Mantua
Polyclinic "G. B. Rossi", Oncology Ward, Verona
11th November, 10.00 am
Presentation of the novel Boonrod
La Feltrinelli, Brescia (Italy)
17th June 2016, 6:00 pm
Presentation of the novel Boonrod
Società Letteraria Verona
in collaboration with Soi Dog Foundation, Phuket, Thailand
25th May 2016, 7:00 pm
Daniela Brunelli, President of the Società Letteraria, Verona
Paola Tonussi, Writer
Mario Tedeschi Turco, Professor of Italian Literature and Music Critic
Paola Colaprisco, Journalist