Il Vittoriale degli Italiani – lecture by Giordano Bruno Guerri

20 March 2012, 6pm

The Vittoriale degli italiani (The shrine of Italian victories in English) is a hillside estate in the town of Gardone Riviera overlooking the Garda lake in Lombardy, Italy. It is where the Italian writer Gabriele d'Annunzio lived after his defenestration in 1922 until his death in 1938. The estate consists of the residence of d'Annunzio called the Prioria (priory), an amphitheatre, the light cruiser Puglia set into a hillside, a boathouse containing the MAS vessel used by D'Annunzio in 1918 and a circular mausoleum. Its grounds are now part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani.
References to the Vittoriale range from a “monumental citadel” to a “fascist lunapark”, the site inevitably inheriting the controversy surrounding its creator.

Giordano Bruno Guerri is a lecturere at the Marconi University in Rome, a former editing diorector of the Storia illustrata, Chorusa and L'indipendente, editing director at the w Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, a writer and a television programmes host.

The lecture, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and the International Cultural Centre, in the frames of the cycle devoted to the italian Art and architecture, will be held in Italian with Polish translation.

Admission free