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Film festival: L’occhio delle donne
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Film festival: L’occhio delle donne

On the 8th of March, the International Day of the Woman, the Cinema-Theatre Bersagliere presents the new edition of the cultural project of L’occhio delle donne (“The women’s eye”) L’occhio delle donne is a film festival of movies directed by female directors with a program of five movies for every Friday night of March. The...

The Venice Carnival: the origins
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The Venice Carnival: the origins

 The Carnival is a festival without a fixed date, celebrated in countries with Catholic tradition. Today the festival has lost his religious nature, acquiring different connotations in the spirit of the joke and the fiction. From a Catholic viewpoint, the term derives from the Latin carnem levare, which means “remove the meat”, because it refers...

The masks of the Commedia: Harlequin
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The masks of the Commedia: Harlequin

March is coming and Carnival is just days away. Let’s find out more about the history of the masks of the Commedia dell’arte beginning from the most famous one: Harlequin. Harlequin is a mask from Bergamo, whose personality is born from the fusion of the Zanni’s tradition – which are the masks that play the...