July 16 – ” Balbo’s heaven and seas” is an exhibition that celebrates the 80th anniversary since Balbo’s transatlantic flight. The showcase will be inaugurated on July 26 in Orbetello and will arrive in Canada in August, before heading to the United States. The retrospective displays fifteen lithographs accompanied by a catalog published by Edizioni del Girasole di Ravenna. Each print, designed by Nani Tedeschi, a well-known illustrator for the cultural page of the daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, has commentaries in English and French written by Il Messaggero journalist Alberto Guarnieri. After Tuscany, the exhibition will be in Montreal August 10-24 for the 21st edition of Italian Week. The Canadian event will be organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal, in collaboration with the Cultural Center Casa Italia and the SdC – Petite Italie. The exhibit will be inaugurated on August 10 at 5pm in the Memory Hall of the Centre Culturel de la Petite Italie – Casa d’Italia. Alberto Guarnieri and a representative of the Edizioni del Girasole di Ravenna, Rosa Lavatura, will speak at the event, while historian Michel Pratt, secretary of the Fédération Histoire Québec and author of the book “Italo Balbo, the traversée de l’Atlantique,” will be present.
