Lisbon – From Marco Polo to Vasco Da Gama, Lisbon and Venice were in the past starting points for trips and explorations around the world, and both were capitals of vast colonial empires across the sea. These are two cities linked by a past and a common vocation. Now, in the Portuguese city, the Italian Cultural Institute is hosting ten days of events entirely dedicated to the Venetian Republic: music, photography, theater, films, conferences and workshops, for an audience composed of both adults and children The initiative kicks off on November 17, at the Institute, with the conference “Splendors of the Laguna. Venetian beads” by Professor Giorgio Teruzzi, paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Milan particularly fond of pearls, and specifically of those trade beads produced for centuries in Venice. In 2007, Professor Teruzzi founded a small association, the Compagnia delle Perle, with which he has organized conferences, exhibitions and events in Italy and abroad. For the occasion, the Institute will put on display some murrine. On Thursday, November 19, at the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda goes on stage the play dedicated to the masks of the Commedia dell’Arte “Giù la maschera”, curated by the Belteatro Association of Padua and directed by Bruno Lovadina. The public will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition “Memory of Venice – Murano glass of the Portuguese Royal Family”, which includes a selection of fine objects made in Murano glass from the 19th century, purchased by the Italian Queen Maria Pia of Savoy during her travels to Italy. (9Colonne)
