
Letterature 2025 “Returns”
Return is one of the oldest and deepest themes in literature. A topos that is a metaphor for life itself and finds intertwined with travel, nostalgia, and the search for self.
Homer’s Odyssey is the archetypal model of this: where Odysseus’ long wanderings are not just a physical return to Ithaca, but a journey of inner transformation, a journey that changes him, reveals him to himself and prepares him to reclaim his identity. In every age, return continues to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition: the desire to return home is intertwined with the knowledge that never, no return, can be identical to the departure.
Literatures 2025 “Returns” is Rome International Festival – Previews is promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale, curated by the Department of Cultural Activities with the organizational coordination of Zètema Progetto Cultura. It will take place in Rome on several dates and can also be followed online. To learn more you can go to the official website by clicking HERE
The appointments, scheduled from March 25 to July 1, will take place in different spaces in the city: the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Casa del Jazz, the Elsa Morante Theater and Monte Ciocci Park, a beautiful view of the city in front of St. Peter’s Basilica. A series of
widespread meetings that expand and enrich the most important Capitoline literary event now in its 24th edition. New for the 2025 edition is the distribution of the meetings in different places in the city before arriving at the summer evenings that will always take place in the majestic setting of the Palatine Stadium and that this year will take place on the dates of July 8-9-11-13-15 and 16.
Free admission subject to availability.
Reservations recommended at 060608 and valid within 10 minutes of the start time of the event.
After the deadline, priority in admission is given to the waiting line.
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AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Picasso the stranger

Letterature 2025 “Returns”
Events for June
10

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Picasso the stranger

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth
Events for June
11

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome
Events for June
12

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”
Events for June
13

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
Events for June
14

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Tours of Villa Medici
Events for June
15

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

Tours of Villa Medici

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome
Events for June
16

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
Events for June
17

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Picasso the stranger

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

Indo-Pacific 2025 High-Level Conference

The AI enterprise. How Italian SMEs can become more competitive through artificial intelligence

AFRICANS, GOOD PEOPLE
Events for June
18

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Indo-Pacific 2025 High-Level Conference

The ways of Diplomacy Italy and Peace in Mozambique
Events for June
19

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Caravaggio 2025

Roma Codex

Picasso the stranger

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Spinelli Reloaded: building Europe today

80th anniversary of Italy’s Liberation from Nazi-Fascism

Exhibition – Dialogue
Events for June
20

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

The Music festival
Events for June
21

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
Events for June
22

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
Events for June
23

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

National Day of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Hard Power. Why war changes history.
Events for June
24

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

National Day of the Sovereign Order of Malta

Events for June
25

Picasso the stranger

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

National Day of the Republic of Mozambique

National Day of Slovenia

2025 India Dialogue

Observatory on migration in Rome and Lazio. 20th report
Events for June
26

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

National Day of Madagascar
Events for June
27

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
Events for June
28

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
Events for June
29

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Roma Codex

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Caravaggio 2025

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Picasso the stranger

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

National Day Holy See
Events for June
30

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

Roma Codex

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Caravaggio 2025

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

National Day of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Events for July
1

Caravaggio 2025

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Letterature 2025 “Returns”

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Roma Codex

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

National Day of Federal Republic of Somalia

National Day of Republic of Burundi

National Day of Canada
Events for July
2

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Roma Codex

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Caravaggio 2025

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)
Events for July
3

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Roma Codex

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Caravaggio 2025

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

National Day of Belarus
Events for July
4

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Roma Codex

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Caravaggio 2025

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

National Day of United States of America
Events for July
5

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Roma Codex

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Caravaggio 2025

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

National Day of the Republic of Cape Verde

National Day of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Events for July
6

Sustainable FOOD art

Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You

CINEMA COURTYARDS

Roma Codex

Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of the Black Earth

Franco Fontana. Retrospective

A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome

Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence

FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)

Caravaggio 2025

Caracalla Festival 2025 “Between Sacred and Human”

AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE

Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)
Franco Fontana. Retrospective
OngoingAuditorium del Museo dell’Ara Pacis
Via di Ripetta 190
Flowers. From the Renaissance to artificial intelligence
OngoingChiostro del Bramante
Arco della Pace, 5, 00186 Roma
AMANO CORPUS ANIMAE
OngoingPalazzo Braschi
Piazza di San Pantaleo, 10, Piazza Navona, 2, 00186 Roma RM
Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971)
OngoingGalleria d'Arte Moderna
Via Francesco Crispi, 34
Sustainable FOOD art
OngoingForum Austriaco di Cultura
Viale Bruno Buozzi, 113
Personal exhibition of Anthea Hamilton – Soft You
OngoingFondazione MEMMO
Via della Fontanella Borghese 56b
Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes
OngoingUniversità La Sapienza
Festival des Cabanes di Villa Medici
OngoingVilla Medici
Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1 - Roma
A Polish Queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski royal family in Rome
OngoingCampidoglio
FREE HAND: Art and Animation Cinema in Italy (1957-77)
OngoingMuseo di Roma in Trastevere
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1 - Roma
Indo-Pacific 2025 High-Level Conference
Hotel Quirinale
Via Nazionale, 7
The AI enterprise. How Italian SMEs can become more competitive through artificial intelligence
Camera dei Deputati
AFRICANS, GOOD PEOPLE
Senato della Repubblica - Sala dell'Istituto Santa Maria in Aquiro
Istituto Affari Internazionali I.A.I.
Via dei Montecatini, 17, 00186 Roma RMAddressing the Debt Burden of Low and Middle Income Countries
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Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1 - RomaChristine Angot presents La Nuit sur commande at Villa Medici
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