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...academy is the brainchild of Roberto Wirth, a passionate wine buff and owner of the luxe Hassler Villa Medici Hotel above Piazza di Spagna. Over an appropriately bibulous lunch with two friends?the wine writer Hugh Johnson and Steven Spurrier, founder of the Acad?mie du Vin in Paris (now closed) and Tokyo?Wirth realized "that there was nothing of this kind in Italy and it was the perfect moment and the perfect place to carry out such a project." He found the perfect property in the palazzetto, an abandoned four-story private mansion abutting the Spanish Steps with a second...
...poor, young and awkward Matt Damon, Class of 1992, murdering his way into social respectability and Gwyneth Paltrow’s heart. By Ripley’s Game, based on the fourth of Patricia Highsmith’s five Tom Ripley novels, Ripley is safely ensconced in an Italian villa bordering a small village, with a doting wife and an impressive chef...
...Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble presents a music/dance collaboration featuring a vast array of musical and choreographic styles. In addition to original works set to the music of Fritz Kreisler, Ravel and Villa-Lobos, the show will feature a Haydn piano trio and Khachaturian’s renowned “Saber Dance.” Billbob Brown and Rebecca Nordstrom choreograph and perform. Tickets $15 (HBO). 8 p.m. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts...
...Yasujiro Ozu festival at the HFA continues with this 1941 classic look at a once-powerful families’ decline, in the mold of The Magnificent Ambersons. After the Toda’s father suddenly dies, the children are left with no option but to sell their once opulent villa in order to support their mother. However, as money is, the proceeds are quickly spent by the children’s own families. Soon, the mother is passed around like a morbid game of hot potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying...
Inhabiting an Italianate villa nestled between William James Hall and the biology labs, the CES has long been a valuable and important resource at Harvard. Under its roof are hosted literature, history, government and economics scholars, as well as year-long fellows, who together make valuable contributions to the field of European studies. Recent guests at the CES have included such figures as Ignacio Arias, the Spanish ambassador to the United Nations; Niall Fergusson, a professor of history at New York University who will join Harvard’s faculty in July; and Lionel Jospin, former prime minister of France...