Italy – Fr Alberto De Agostini's photographic exhibition presented in Rome at the headquarters of the Italian Geographical Society

15 January 2025

Rome, Italy - 14 January 2025 - The "Images of a vanished world. Fr.Alberto De Agostini. Man, nature, art, science" Exhibition continues unabated Returning at the end of December 2024 from the CAI Headquarters in Bergamo and the Salesian Institute in Treviglio, 13 January 2025 it was presented and exhibited again in Rome in the splendid Villa Celimontana, inside the park on Celio, headquarters of the Italian Geographical Society. There could be no better place to find Fr De Agostini's photos, since he had given lectures there and, following his death, was given a magnificent biographical profile in the Geographical Society's magazine. After a greeting by the President of the Italian Geographical Society, Prof. Claudio Cerreti, the curator of the exhibition, Fr Francesco Motto (Salesian Historical Institute - ISS), Prof. Nicola Bottiglieri (University of Cassino) who has been collaborating with the ISS in the missionary field for years and Prof. Alberto Renzulli (University of Urbino) who, among other things, promoted the Spanish edition of the same exhibition in Buenos Aires as part of the CUIA (Consorzio Universitario Italia Argentina), presented Fr De Agostini and illustrated the exhibition. This event was the first in ISS appointments for the 150th anniversary of the first missionary expedition (2025), which will see further stages with the presentation of the Epistolary of Don Bosco (Rome-UPS, 28 January and Turin-State Archives 2 April), the Historical Conference (Rome-UPS 2-3 May) and the ACSSA European Seminar (Rome-UPS, 22-26 October). The photographic exhibition, with an original video by Fr De Agostini, will remain open in Villa Celimontana until 28 January 2025, before being exhibited in other venues on simple request.

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