Dec. 16 – Three important anniversaries related to Italian literature take palce in 2014 and 2015: this year marks the 640th anniversary of the death of Francesco Petrarca, while next year the 640th anniversay of Giovanni Boccaccio’s death, and will also celebrate the 750th anniversary since Dante’s birth. As part of its multi-year project “Classics of world literature: anniversaries”, the University Library “Svеtozar Маrkоvic” in Belgrade is organizing, in collaboration with the Departments of Philology, Fine Arts and the Italian Cultural Institute, a book exhibition from its collections. The display will take place alongside a show of figurative works carried out by the students of the Department of Fine Arts to pay tribute to the three great Italian writers, whose work constitutes the foundation of all modern European literature. The exhibition will be inaugurated at the headquarters of the Library on Thursday, December 18 (at 1pm), in the presence of Sira Miori (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade and coordinator of Area, Adviser on Cultural Affairs of the Embassy of Italy in Belgrade), Aleksandar Jerkov (director of the University Library “Svetozar Markovic”), Dimitrije Pecic (Dean of the Department of Fine Arts), Snežana Milinković (director of the Italian Studies Program within the Philology Department of the University of Belgrade), Vuka Jeremić and Nataša Vasiljević (directors of the University Library and the creators of the show).
