NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University is New York City’s leading academic and public center dedicated to Italian culture. 🇮🇹

🎨🎶 What Makes It Italian? The Return of Music + Art with our Music Club.What can a Renaissance painting tell us about th...
10/01/2026

🎨🎶 What Makes It Italian? The Return of Music + Art with our Music Club.

What can a Renaissance painting tell us about the music of its time? And what might a madrigal reveal about the architecture and visual culture of 16th-century Rome?

On Tuesday, October 6 at 6 PM, What Makes It Italian? returns with an exploration of Renaissance Rome, bringing music and art into conversation.

We’ll look at the new secular musical genre of the madrigal alongside the emergence of the villa suburbana, exploring the work of composer Sebastiano Festa and architect Baldassare Peruzzi, whose Villa Farnesina provides the setting for Raphael’s celebrated Galatea.

Led by Gina Crusco, the free online listening and discussion group explores the qualities and connections that make Italian music and art distinctly—and sometimes unexpectedly—Italian.

Free and open to everyone. Online via Zoom.

📩 To participate and receive the Zoom link, please contact Gina Crusco. Email in our website.

A new chapter for Casa Italiana is about to begin.As we finalize the details of our auditorium renovation — the first ph...
09/29/2026

A new chapter for Casa Italiana is about to begin.

As we finalize the details of our auditorium renovation — the first phase of our renewal project — we are thinking carefully about the space we want to create: welcoming, comfortable, and worthy of the conversations, performances, ideas, and encounters that have filled it for decades.

You can help make it possible. Every contribution, whatever its size, makes a difference. Your support will help bring these plans to life and ensure that Casa remains a place where Italian culture can continue to be studied, experienced, shared, and enjoyed in New York City.

Interested in sponsoring a seat? Seat sponsorships start at $2,000 and include a double Casa membership for the next two years. But you do not need to sponsor a seat to support the renovation — donations of any amount are warmly welcomed. A contribution of $75 or more also includes one year of Casa membership.

Support the renovation. Help shape what comes next.

Link in bio for the donation page.

What happens when a centuries-old ritual of music, dance, and trance moves from the peasant world of Salento into the co...
09/29/2026

What happens when a centuries-old ritual of music, dance, and trance moves from the peasant world of Salento into the contemporary imagination?

Tonight at Casa Italiana: Tarantismo – Odyssey of an Italian Ritual, a journey through the history and afterlife of tarantismo—from a contested form of healing to its rediscovery by ethnomusicologists, its transformation into cultural heritage, and its echoes in contemporary ritual and music.

Alan Marzo-Strani, co-author of Tarantismo: Odyssey of an Italian Ritual and co-founder of FLEE, will present the book and its companion LP, featuring rare field recordings of tarantismo healing sessions made in the 1950s by Diego Carpitella and Alan Lomax, alongside contemporary reinterpretations.

The evening continues with a conversation with Alessandra Belloni, singer, percussionist, dancer, and researcher of Southern Italian healing traditions, moderated by Emilio Tamburini, Ph.D. Candidate at NYU.

🎶 Tarantismo – Odyssey of an Italian Ritual
📍 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
🗓️ Tonight, September 29
🕡 6:30–8:00 PM
🇺🇸 In English

In collaboration with FLEE.


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🏠 What if getting your own home meant waiting for someone to die?On September 17, Casa Italiana welcomes Karen Pinkus, a...
09/15/2026

🏠 What if getting your own home meant waiting for someone to die?

On September 17, Casa Italiana welcomes Karen Pinkus, author of Nuda proprietà (Derive Approdi, 2026), for a conversation with historian and author Vanessa Roghi, Tiro a Segno Visiting Fellow in Italian American Studies at NYU, with Isabella Livorni.

At the center of Pinkus’s novel is Franca, a forty-year-old single woman living in Rome who dreams of one simple thing: a home of her own. Tired of her family, her domineering sister, and her aging father, she signs a nuda proprietà contract—the right to live in a property while giving up its ownership until the current owner dies.

There’s just one problem: the owner is 87… and has no intention of dying.

What follows is a feminist mystery with surreal touches of true crime, set against a Rome of traffic, garbage, family dramas—and unexpected hidden beauty.

A darkly funny story about home, autonomy, aging, family, and the absurdities of contemporary life.

📚 Una casa tutta per sé
Thursday, September 17, 2026
6:30–8:00 PM
📍 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU
In Italian

09/09/2026

Pinocchio has had many lives. How many do you know? 🪵✨

Two hundred years after the birth of Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio is still one of the most beloved stories of childhood—and one of the most endlessly reinvented.

This evening, Casa Italiana and Italy on Screen Today bring together scholars from literature, history, medicine, and art history for The Many Lives of Pinocchio, a conversation exploring the character beyond the familiar wooden puppet.
From the history of childhood and education to child mortality and immortality, from the visual evolution of Pinocchio to his place in Italian culture, our panelists will look at the many meanings this extraordinary character has acquired over time.

🎙️ With
Larry Wolff, NYU
Perri Klass, NYU
David Forgacs, NYU
Giulia Silvia Ghia, art historian and Councilor for Culture, Education and Youth Policies for the First Municipality of Rome

Moderated by historian and author Vanessa Roghi, with welcoming remarks by Loredana Commonara, Founder & Artistic Director of Italy on Screen Today.

📍 Wednesday, September 9 | 6:30–8:00 pm
In English

And the story continues the following day at Quad Cinema, with screenings of Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio and Luigi Comencini’s Le avventure di Pinocchio.
Registration is free.

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by his pen name Carlo Collodi, was born in Florence in 1826 and has remained one of the mo...
08/28/2026

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by his pen name Carlo Collodi, was born in Florence in 1826 and has remained one of the most widely read and beloved authors of children’s literature thanks to his fantasy novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883).

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Collodi’s birth, Casa Italiana and .new_york are coming together for two days dedicated to Pinocchio—from the cultural history of Collodi’s beloved character to two very different cinematic visions of his journey.

📚 THE MANY LIVES OF PINOCCHIO
Wednesday, September 9 | 6:30 PM
📍 Casa Italiana Auditorium (Yes! Works haven't started yet)

A panel discussion moderated by Vanessa Roghi, featuring Larry Wolff, Perri Klass, David Forgacs, and Giulia Silvia Ghia, who will explore Pinocchio through the perspectives of cultural history, childhood, education, medicine, and visual culture.

🎬 PINOCCHIO (2019)
Thursday, September 10 | 3:15 PM
📍 Quad Cinema

Matteo Garrone’s acclaimed adaptation, starring Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo, and Gigi Proietti.

🎬 LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO (1972)
Thursday, September 10 | 7:00 PM
📍 Quad Cinema

Luigi Comencini’s beloved adaptation, starring Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi, and Gina Lollobrigida.

Both films will be screened in Italian with English subtitles.

From Collodi’s pages to two radically different cinematic interpretations, these events invite us to look again at a story we think we know—and discover how much more Pinocchio still has to tell us.

Registration is required for all events.

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