The Florentine

Intended for students, professors and American and foreign universities, this new bilingual literary magazine aims at spreading knowledge of Italian language / literature and contemporary Italy. We look forward to seeing you and discussing together the first issue, a preview of the second, and the possibility for faculty and students to collaborate with us, throughout workshops and subscriptions. 

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With Luca Baldoni, Diego Bertelli e Alessandro Raveggi
Introduced by Stefano Baldassarri, director ISI Florence

refreshments will follow
More information on the magazine: http://theflr.net/theflr 
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The FLR is a bilingual (Italian-English) magazine; each issue features six short stories and two poems by contemporary Italian writers. It is a twice-yearly illustrated magazine, with monographic issues each dedicated to a theme-word. Texts are commissioned by the editorial board, translated into English and presented with facing translation. Our aim is to offer Italian readers a magazine combining high-quality texts and graphic design, something you can enjoy reading but that is also beautiful to look at, leaf through and recommend. We also hope to contribute to the knowledge of Italian literature and life, providing translations of new authors for foreign students and teachers of Italian language and literature. 

Founded and directed by Alessandro Raveggi, writer and literature professor at ISI Florence, NYU Florence, Gonzaga University and Pepperdine, The FLR brings together different skills and sensibilities, with an editorial board consisting of writers, critics, teachers, poets, translators, librarians and booksellers: Martino Baldi, Luca Baldoni, Diego Bertelli, Raoul Bruni, Silvia Costantino, Helen Farrell, Giuseppe Girimonti Greco, Daniele Pasquini, Vanni Santoni and Niccolò Scaffai. 

The first issue (centered around the theme of “Invasion”) features short stories by Elena Varvello, Luciano Funetta, Filippo Tuena, Luca Ricci, Alessandro Leogrande and Elisa Ruotolo as well as poems by Mariagiorgia Ulbar and Marco Simonelli. The illustrations in this first issue are by Viola Bartoli. For each issue an upcoming illustrator will be selected through an open call. Johanna Bishop (prose) and Brenda Porster (poetry) have translated the texts. The theme word for the next issue will be “Desire”.

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Best regards,

Alessandro Raveggi, Ph. D. 

Faculty, Italian and English Literature 

ISI Florence / NYU Florence / Gonzaga University / Pepperdine University