About this Event
Tiziana Rinaldi Castro's Guida alla New York ribelle celebrates New York's subversive spirit and offers a history of the city's rebels and revolutionaries, from Harriet Tubman to Leon Trotsky to Malcom X. In conversation (in Italian) with Nicola Lucchi, followed by a signing.
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held primarily in Italian. RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
New York is a two-faced creature—powerful and opulent, rebellious and iconoclastic— singularly driven by a tremendous determination to succeed. We follow the vital subversive energy that has flowed through the streets of the city since its origins. Traversing the five boroughs, we meet Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Emma Goldman, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leon Trotsky, the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance and the socialist workers’ movement, the dissident voices at the forefront of American art and literature, and also Angela Davis, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and the leaders of the musical revolution of jazz, rock, Afropunk, rap, hip hop.
New York è creatura bifronte: potente e opulenta, ribelle e iconoclasta. La forza propulsiva è la stessa: una tremenda determinazione alla riuscita. Seguiamo la vitale energia sovversiva che fin dalle origini scorre per le strade della città. Da un’isola all’altra di questo straordinario arcipelago fino al Bronx, incontriamo Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Emma Goldman, Sacco e Vanzetti, Lev Trockij, i protagonisti della Harlem Renaissance, il movimento operaio socialista, le voci più dissidenti dell’arte e della letteratura americana e ancora Angela Davis, Malcolm X, le Black Panthers e i protagonisti della rivoluzione musicale del jazz, del rock, dell’afropunk, del rap, dell’hip hop.
Tiziana Rinaldi Castro has lived in the United States since 1984 and teaches Ancient Greek Literature and Classical Mythology at Montclair State University. She lives between Brooklyn and Sala Consilina with her husband. She has published the novels Come della rosa (Effigie, 2017), Due cose amare e una dolce (EO, 2007), translated into French in 2024 as Deux choses amères et une douce, (Cap Régions Éditions), Il lungo ritorno (EO, 2001), the collection of poems Dai morti (Ripostes, 1992) and short stories in Italian and English in various anthologies. She collaborates with various Italian newspapers, including La Repubblica, il Manifesto, Alias and Nuovi Argomenti.
Nicola Lucchi is Director of Research and Education at Magazzino Italian Art Museum in Cold Spring, NY. At Magazzino, Nicola oversees the library, research and fellowship programs of the institution's Research Center, the museum's publications, and the activities organized with schools and colleges of the newly-established Education Center. Prior to joining Magazzino, Nicola worked as Executive Director of the Center for Italian Modern Art, where he managed the Center's Research Fellowship Program and cultural events. Nicola has also taught as Substitute Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian at CUNY’s Queens College, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Dickinson College. He has published scholarly articles, book chapters and essays on Futurism, on the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and on Bruno Munari. He has curated exhibitions on Futurist typography, on political propaganda, and on avant-garde advertising posters. He received his PhD in Italian Studies from New York University in 2016.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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