American Academy in Rome

Research conducted at the Academy by Milena Belloni (2017 Italian Fellow) will appear in his new book, The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe, to be published by the University of California Press later this year.

The Venice Biennale commissioned a new musical composition from Filippo Perocco (2009 Italian Fellow). The piece—titled Come foglia opaca and created for soprano, saxophone, accordion, electric guitar, prepared piano, synthesizer, and resonator—will have its world premiere on September 28 at the Teatro alle Tese.

Damocle Edizione in Venice published In Search of Aldus Pius Manutius a campo Sant’Agostin by Johannes M. P. Knoops (2000 Fellow, 1991 Affiliated Fellow) in late 2018.

Toni Morrison (2013 Resident), an African American novelist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, has died. She was 88 years old. Morrison was a special guest speaker at the 2012 Rome Prize Ceremony.