Ankara – The 15th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World offers, October 19-25, an intense cultural program dedicated to “Italian music, and the musicality of Italian.” Opening the week-long event in Anakara is a conference scheduled for today at 11am by Professor Valeria Della Valle of Sapienza University in Rome, entitled “Fascism and the Italian Language”, at the Turkish Hall of the British Association of Ankara (home of the Italian language courses organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Istanbul in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy and the Turkish British Association). The conference will be followed by the screening of the documentary “Me ne frego! Fascism and the Italian language” by Vanni Gandolfo with Turkish subtitles. Linguist Valeria Della Valle and director Vanni Gandolfo document and tell the story of Fascist Italy, and the political will to create a new and unique language, the new Italian. Another topic covered in the documentary is the introduction of “voi” compared to “lei” as a form of politeness. (9Colonne)
