Sunday, April 4, 2010
Raivaticano online
The site will start with La Bibbia Giorno e Notte, the 137 hours reading of the Old and the New Testament carried out on October 2008 in the Roman basilica Santa Croce di Gerusalemme and broadcasted by Rai Educational.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Raffaele Giglio's OpenCourseWare about Dante
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Il Cacciatore di libri
Radio24
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Radio Arlecchino
Podcasts are built around dialogs that explain the Italian grammar behind communicative language functions – functions like describing and comparing, recommending and expressing opinions, recounting the past, expressing likes and dislikes, hypothesizing, and talking about the future.
You can download pdf files to read dialog transcripts and learn more from additional grammar and cultural notes. You can even ask questions on the discussion blog."
Radio Arlecchino is produced at the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.
Fumetti Podomatic
"This is a podcast for intermediate or advanced Italian language learners. You can expand your vocabulary by listening to spoken Italian while you also read the transcript and study the words that are unfamiliar. The best part is that you'll have a lot of fun in the process! "Fumetti" are Italian comic books. The podcasts are comic books that were originally dramatized for Italian radio (RADIO 2).
This podcast will focus mainly on three comic book characters that are incredibly successful in Italy: Tex, Diabolik and Dylan Dog. The podcasts and other materials on the website will show you how deeply the characters have entered the consciousness of contemporary Italian society.
Transcripts are available for download."
You can send comments and suggestions at fumetti@podomatic.com.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Saturday, December 6, 2008
'Amore e ginnastica' by Edmondo De Amicis
* full text
[A movie was shot by Luigi Filippo D'Amico in 1973]
Saturday, November 29, 2008
What is poetry? by Valerio Magrelli
Friday, November 28, 2008
Podcast Auditorium Parco della Musica
Sunday, November 9, 2008
'Il barone rampante' by Italo Calvino
Rai - 'Ad Alta Voce'
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Il Canto delle anime (Lugano, Oct. 21, 22, and 24)
Lugano, Cattedrale S. Lorenzo: October 21, 22, and 24
[The event will be recorded by Rete 2 Radio Svizzera di lingua italiana: streaming ]
Ideated by scholar Gian Franco Freguglia and musicologist Giovanni Conti, the program presents a reading by Vittorio Sermonti and music by More Antiquo Ensemble and Giorgio Battistelli.
Introduction: Sermonti e Dante a Lugano [interview with Sermonti] Oct. 5, 2008 [podcast / see Quilisma]
[Sermonti reads DC I and more]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Celebrated Heideggerian Celebrates Dante in Class and on iTunes
Hubert Dreyfus, professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley and leading interpreter of Heidegger, podcasts his course lectures on iTunes. In his most popular course, “Man, God, Society in Western Literature: From Gods to God and Back,” Dreyfus surveys five major literary works of Western Literature according to Heidegger's "understanding of being." Between Homer and Melville, Dreyfus devotes six classes to The Divine Comedy: over eight hours of an existentialist reading of Dante.
Dreyfus lectures that Artworks focus, glamorize and unify a culture, thereby holding up to people the unifying thing that makes them a Greek or a Roman or a Christian or an American, in his examples. In hours of close textual analysis, Dreyfus argues that Dante's Divine Comedy focuses and unifies a medieval Christian understanding of being in such a way that readers could and understand their lives in the light of the artwork.
(There's a mistake in the iTunes listing, however, because iTunes has the Dante Lecture Nos. 15-19, when they are actually Nos. 16-20, so the first Dante Lecture actually begins with "The Divine Comedy - Inferno - Part B" while the preceding one is still on the Gospel of John.
Also, the complete course of "Man, God, Society in Western Culture" is recorded and available from Spring 2007. Dreyfus is teaching the course again this semester of Fall 2008, and lectures are published on iTunes as they are recorded. According to the online course schedule, The Divine Comedy is slated for October 28-November 6.)
Friday, September 5, 2008
'Canne al vento' by Grazia Deledda
Rai - 'Ad alta voce'
You can podcast every episode. I suggest to do it every day or on Saturday, at the end of every week. Rai changes the list every week.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Stella del Sud. Il piacere di viaggiare
Some titles: L'Aquila, Urbino, Assisi, Perugia (Palazzo dei Priori), Tivoli (Villa Este), Ariccia (Palazzo Chigi), Roma (Villa Farnesina, Galleria Borghese, Il Colle Capitolino), Firenze (Palazzo Medici Riccardi), Palermo, Milano (Palazzo Reale), and many others.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion
Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion
The Magic of Illusion—presented here in a seven-part podcast series—is a film about how we see, what we see, or what it is we think we see. Al Roker guides us on a journey into the secrets of illusion, utilizing special effects to illustrate the artistic and visionary discoveries of the Renaissance. While Copernicus and Columbus were changing our understanding of the world, the Renaissance masters were dramatically changing the way we see that world. The film uses recent technology to look at old works in new ways. Each segment of this podcast presentation unlocks new secrets of illusion and perspective as seen in the works of old masters.
Introduction, Part 1
The Trinity—Masaccio, Part 2
In 1427 inside Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Masaccio created the masterpiece The Trinity using linear perspective for the first time. This segment explains how he was able to make the wall behind the work seem to disappear so that the painting becomes an extension of the room the viewer is in.
The Church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Part 3
Using forced perspective in the apse of the small Church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro in Milan, Bramante created the illusion of a much larger space.
Sant'Ignazio's Ceiling, Part 4
Sant'Ignazio's Ceiling in Rome is an amazing demonstration of illusionism on a monumental scale. This segment demonstrates that when the viewpoint of the fresco changes, the illusion is destroyed.
Podcasting is available from: Hi-Res / Lo-Res / iTunes
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Dante Podcasted
1) Reading and Lectures on Purgatorio Cantos IX, XII, XIV, XV, and XVII can be downloaded from Boston College's university podcast, "Boston College Front Row." Readers include Chiara Frenquellucci, Brian O'Connor, Maria Esposito Frank, and Emilio Mazzola.
2) A reading of the entire comedy is available on iTunes through Librivox. Librivox is a non-commercial, non-profit, worldwide project powered by volunteer readers who record audio files of texts which Librivox makes available on their website and through their podcast on iTunes. The iTunes link to the Divine Comedy podcast is available only through the corresponding website. Go to the website and click on "Subscribe in iTunes."
3) The Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, part of the Italian Department of the University of Leeds has a Dante podcast, an extended series of mini-lectures on the comedy.
4) Prof. Luigi Gaudio, a professor of letters at an Italian liceo, has a series of class lectures on the comedy available for download on iTunes.