Società Dante Alighieri Copenhagen

The Dante Alighieri Society is a non-profit cultural association, managed by volunteers and financed through the membership of members, organized in local committees around the world. At the moment there are 87 in Italy and 423 abroad. The Dante Alighieri of Copenhagen is one of them. The Dante Alighieri Society founded in Rome in 1889 by a group of intellectuals led by Giosuè Carducci, with the aim of protecting and spreading the Italian language and culture throughout the world, "reviving the spiritual ties of fellow countrymen abroad with the mother country and nourishing love and worship for Italian civilization among foreigners ”. The association, open to all people interested in the Italian language and culture - regardless of their nationality, religious confession, political or ideological orientation - creates and supports schools, libraries, clubs and courses in Italian language and culture, spreads books and publications, promotes conferences, cultural trips and artistic events, assigns prizes and scholarships.