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Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland was born in 1866 in the small town of Clamecy, France. Having graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, doctorate in...


Daniel Halévy
He was the one who so elegantly remarked of Proust, his former schoolmate at the Lycée Condorcet, that he had “large, Oriental eyes.”...


Elizabeth Von Arnim's Invisible Garden- Tuesday 11 March at 5.30 pm / a conference by Maria Chiara Pozzana
In collaboration with Calliope Arts, The British Institute Florence as part of the project: The Florentine Gardens: Early Women ex-pats...


Aperitif with the Author, Saturday, March 1 at 5:30 p.m. Walter Catalano and Alessandro Fambrini in “Of Germany and Of the Soul. Ghosts and Nightmares from Vernon Lee to K.H. Strobl and H.H. Ewers”
The authors will be introduced by Serena Cenni and will talk about the similarities and differences between German fantastic literature...


Conference by Silvia Florindi " Women and Plants in the Prehistory" a hidden history. Thursday 20th febraury 2025 at 5.30 pm
The conference will be given in italian the first opportunity in the year 2025 to hear an exciting story where, through recent research...


A painter’s Florentine Garden: Lola Costa and Il Palmerino at The British Institute of Florence 22 January -18.00
A lecture by Federica Parretti and Linda Falcone In 1935, Lola Costa purchased Il Palmerino, and set up her painting studio there....

