The national day devoted to poet Dante Alighieri - “Dantedi”- will be celebrated on Friday by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Culture Institute, Bucharest, Dante's genius being pointed out in professor Luca Serianni's lesson called “Dante's language and Modern Italian”. March 25 is the day according to which, in 1300, Dante was lost in the “dark forest” of Chant I Inferno from “Divina Commedia”, the Italian Embassy mentions in a press release. The event was initiated in 2020 by the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, upon the suggestion of culture minister Dario Franceschini, who considered that “the symbol of Italian linguistic unity and the very idea of Italy” are found in Dante's figure. The event will be inaugurated at 11.00 a.m by the Italian ambassador to Romania, Alfredo Durante Mangoni and the moderator of the meeting will be Smaranda Bratu Elian, professor doctor of philology at the Faculty of Romance Languages, Bucharest University. Professor Serianni's speech “Dante's Language and Modern Italian”will be followed by speeches of Oana Salisteanu, Corina Anton and Anamaria Gebaila, professors at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bucharest University. The purpose of the initiative is that of involving Romanian students and cultural institutions. “722 years after the beginning of the Supreme Poet's journey, Italian institutions present in Romania gather around one of the “parents” of Italian linguistic genealogy, a reference point of national and European culture and identity,” the press release shows. Luca Serianni teaches the History of Italian language at Rome University – La Sapienza. He investigated various aspects of Italian linguistic history. He is associate professor at the Accademia della Crusca and Accademia dei Lincei, and a vicepresident of Dante Alighieri Society. He is also director of the magazines “Italian linguistic Studies”and “Studies of Italian Lexicography”. Professor Serianni is the author of many books, among which: “Italian Poetic Language. Grammar and texts”, “Italian in schools between students and teachers,” “Manual of Italian linguistics. History, topicality, grammar”, “Italian in prose”, “Italian Hour”. The event can be followed in live streaming on the Facebook page of the Italian Embassy and of the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest, at https://www.facebook.com/Institut.
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Romanians will be able to call 112 via video call and will be found much more easily thanks to a new, highly performant location system, implemented for the first time in Europe. The new system, called Next Generation 112, is based on network information, ILD, and determined location information. It will allow faster call handling, […]
A new analysis showed a sharp decline in the number of Romanian students enrolled at UK universities, with figures dropping by 73% over the past three academic years. In 2024-2025, 2,435 Romanian students were studying in the United Kingdom, compared to 8,915 in 2021-2022 - a decrease of 6,480 students. The downturn follows the UK’s […]
