Italian Cultural Heritage (IE ADMISSION)

1. IF ALL OF THE WORLD ́S CULTURAL HERITAGE (SPORTS, MUSIC,
FASHION, ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, PAINTING, ETC..) WAS
CONTAINED IN A TIME CAPSULE, WHAT WOULD YOU INCLUDE TO
DEMONSTRATE THE LEGACY OF YOUR COUNTRY?
IE University Master Application
BENEDETTA LORENZI

2. ITALY AS A CULTURAL
SUPERPOWER
• Considered the birthplace of Western Civilization
• Home of Etruscans, Samnite, Romans
• Hosting Phoenicians and Greeks
• Starting point of phenomenon such as:
- Magna Graecia
- Roman Empire,
- Roman Catholic Church
- Renaissance
- Risorgimento
- European integration

3. THE HERITAGE
• The Nation has around 100,000 monuments of any sort!
• Italy is the home of the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and home to half of the
world’s great art treasure.
… WHY?
• For more than 2,000 years Italy experiences migrations
and invasions
• It was divided into many heterogeneous independent states
• Regions with unique customs, traditions and political autonomy
• Unified only in 1861

4. Old Harbor, Renzo Piano, Genova, 1992.
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower
(Dome), F. Brunelleschi, Florence, 1436.
The Veil Christ, Giuseppe Sanmartino, Naples, 1753.
SCULPTURE
AND
ARCHITECTURE
Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space,
F.Boccioni, 1913.

5. The Disquieting Muses, L. De Chirico, 1917The Doge's Palace and Riva degli Schiavoni, Canaletto, 1768
VISUAL ART

6. MUSIC
Luciano Pavarotti, Lucio Dalla, Zucchero Fabrizio De André
Mina
Lucio Battisti

7. SCIENCE
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology.
Enrico Fermi
Nobel laureate, honored for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron
bombardment and the discovery of transuranic element.

8. FASHION
Catherine de Medici, her fashion were the main trendsetters of courts at the time.
Gianni Versace, fashion designer and founder of Versace.

9. FOOD
Cannoli, Sicily
Tagliatelle al ragù, Bologna
Baccalà mantecato con polenta, Veneto
Pizza, Naples (Campania)

10. LANGUAGE AND DIALECTS

11. SPORT
Francesco Totti and Alessandro Del Piero, Nazionale
Italiana di Calcio
Mirko Bergamasco and Mauro Bergamasco,
Nazionale Italiana di Rugby
Yuri Chechi, ex gymnast specialized in the rings

12. << He who is silent and bows his head dies
every time he does so. He who speaks
aloud and walks with his head held high
dies only once. >>
Giovanni Falcone
<< If young people refuse to give it their
consent, even the all-powerful,
mysterious mafia will disappear like a
nightmare. >>
Paolo Borsellino