Festival degli scrittori a Firenze, Jeremy Irons celebra Machiavelli

Jeremy Irons to Attend Festival of Writers in Florence, Italy

From June 12 to 14, 2013 in Florence, Italy is the Festival of Writers.

The event is linked to the award-Gregor von Rezzori City of Florence for the best work of foreign fiction translated into Italian. Two of the largest events in the program are the keynote address by Patrick McGrath, and Jeremy Irons and Laura Morante which will be staged to celebrate the 500th anniversary of ‘The Prince’ by Machiavelli.

The event takes place between readings, meetings, lectures of actors and writers in various places of the city: from Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Strozzi and Medici Riccardi, at the Odeon cinema which will host the keynote address of the author of Madness and the show, sponsored in collaboration with Fondazione Toscana system, dedicated to Machiavelli, of texts chosen by Roberto Ando, starring Jeremy Irons and Laura Morante.