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(1st of each month - Podcast/YouTube) A presentation of an innovative figure in contemporary Italian culture/business

(15th of each month - Podcast/YouTube) A conversation with leading business figures or academics in Italian Studies

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Beauty and Innovation Chats about the relationship between humanities and entrepreneurship

Italian Innovators
The "Ace of Flowers". The story behind Colnago's iconic logo | #italianinnovators
00:57
The 1935 ad that Marcello Dudovich designed for La Rinascente. Art between creativity and censorship
00:34
The Ferrari of bicycles. Ernesto Colnago, Enzo Ferrari and the birth of carbon fiber in #cycling
00:58
How the legend started. Colnago's encounter with Fiorenzo Magni and the Giro d'Italia of 1955
00:53
La casa all'italiana (the Italian-style house) by Gio Ponti. The dawn of Italian design
00:58
Everyone has a task, even when all seems to be over. Introducing Ernesto Colnago #italianinnovators
00:42
ERNESTO COLNAGO. The Designer of Italy's Most Legendary Bicycles | #italianinnovators
12:22
Cabiria (Pastrone & D'Annunzio, 1914). The first cinematographic colossal
00:52
Futurism: A Very Short Introduction (Ara Merjian) | Book Review #italianinnovators
13:56
From tailoring to authorship. How fabric became a text in the hands of Zoe, Micol & Giovanna Fontana
00:56
The poster for La Bohème (A. Hohenstein, 1895). The first "graphic opera" | #italianinnovators
01:00
The Olivetti M1 (1911). What does Dante have to do with the first Olivetti typewriter?
00:55
What makes the Sorelle Fontana so special? | #italianinnovators
01:00
The primavera gown (Rosa Genoni, 1906)
00:58
The Pretino dress of the Sorelle Fontana (1956). An icon of Italian #fashion | #italianinnovators
00:38
The seamstresses of the stars. Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn & the Fontana Sisters
00:48
The non-verbal language of Leonardo's Mona Lisa | #italianinnovators
00:49
How the world discovered the Fontana sisters. The wedding of Linda Christian & Tyrone Power (1949)
00:54
ZOE, MICOL, & GIOVANNA FONTANA | The founding sisters of Italian #fashion | #italianinnovators
15:01
The signature of Michelangelo's Pietà | #fridayacademy #italianinnovators
00:50
The canal system of Milan by Leonardo da Vinci | #italianinnovators #fridayacademy
00:42
Perseus with the head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini
00:51
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Porta del Paradiso in Florence
00:47
A brief profile of Leo XIII, the first Pope ever to appear on camera | #italianinnovators
00:50
The Salt Cellar by Benvenuto Cellini (1543)
00:32
The start of Leo's pontificate. The global scenario of 1878 and today's world | #italianinnovators
00:45
The birth of italics (Francesco Griffo)
01:00
Leo XIII and Leo XIV. Two "American" Popes
00:37
The Conclave of 1878. The election of the "last Pope" | #italianinnovators
01:00
LEO XIII (1878-1903). The Pope who loved America | #italianinnovators
16:32
The Friday Academy. Introducing a new playlist | #italianinnovators
02:56
An object-based history of Italian design | Introduction
02:32
The foundation and early vision of Bocconi University (1902) | #italianinnovators #shorts
00:59
Peretti's creative illumination. The birth of the water bottle pendant | #italianinnovators #shorts
00:50
From modeling to jewel #design. Elsa Peretti lands in NYC | #italianinnovators #shorts
00:50
WWI and the growth of the #coffee industry in Italy | #italianinnovators #shorts #lavazza
00:59
Lavazza & Italy's leadership in the industry of "transformed #coffee" | #Italianinnovators #shorts
00:51
The creation of the first Lavazza store in Turin (1895) | #italianinnovators #shorts #lavazza
00:53
The best boat ever made. The Riva Aquarama (1962) | #italianinnovators #shorts #riva #lamborghini
00:58
The path to global success. 4 generations of Riva #yachts | #italianinnovators #shorts
00:59
From the Middle Ages to now. Italy's tradition of boating excellence | #italianinnovators #shorts
00:44
The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919 (New Book L.Cottini). Key arguments | #shorts
00:53
The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919 | L.Cottini (U of Toronto Press) | Book presentation
29:26
The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919 (New book |L.Cottini). Key takeaways | #shorts
00:57
Un incontro inatteso. Come è nata la collaborazione tra Milena Canonero e Stanley Kubrick | #shorts
00:56
Design and religious architecture. Gio Ponti's cathedral of Taranto | #italianinnovators #shorts
00:36
The tire track. The story and vision of Milan's #pirellone | #italianinnovators #shorts #gioponti
00:55
The Superleggera chair. Gio Ponti's #design masterpiece | #italianinnovators #shorts
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