Casa Italiana is very fortunate that a person of the caliber of Oscar Bartoli has personally designed this one of a kind course about love, its evolving expressions and how poetry and music convey love.
“Love in poetry and popular music”,
a unique course created by Oscar, starts with the worship of women as
angels by Dante contrasted with Lorenzo il Magnifico’s concept of women
as confidants, lovers and partners in life.
The second third will explore how poetry sparked the love songs of Naples in the 50s and 60s.
Part three
will examine love in the family, between mother, father and child
though poetry in songs and love of nation by soldiers who give their
lives in war and the love of martyrs for their religion.
Part
four speeds on to modern love, pornography, modern masculinity,
feminism and the chaos and temporary nature of today’s relationships.
Oscar
paid his way through college as a professional guitarist and singer in
clubs and on TV and Radio and will sing these songs for you. You will
learn how love is shared and intensified through poetry.
ABOUT OSCAR BARTOLI
Oscar
has advised top CEOs on speaking compelling Italian, taught journalism
for ten years in the prestigious private Luiss University in Rome and
also at Catholic University in Washington DC and has a blog followed by
300 hundred thousand. Now he is teaching at MICRI (Master in Relazioni
Internazionali) at IULM (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione) in
Milano.
Oscar has
written several books and served as advisor to top leaders in Italy on
how to persuasively communicate in a way that moves people to action.
Born in Venezia and raised in Florence, the birthplace of the modern
Italian language, from Oscar you will learn the most correct way and
beautiful way to speak the language of love, Italian, but with the
precision of a lawyer and seasoned journalist.
The course
will be in Italian for students who considered themselves advanced.
Oscar will give us a broad brush of love Italian style through music,
novels, poetry, songs and the contemporary culture in the US and Italy.
When: Each Tuesday (January 23- April 10) from 6:30 PM to 9:00 Pm /
Each Saturday (January 27 - April 21) from10.00 AM - 12.30 PM
Where: Casa Italiana 3rd street
