7th Annual Mastrangelo Lecture

CUA's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will sponsor its seventh annual Frank R. Mastrangelo Lecture. Stanislao Pugliese, UNICO Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University, will present "Wrestling with Two Angels: Ignazio Silone, Communism, and the Catholic Church." (UNICO is the largest Italian-American service organization in the United States.) Ignazio Silone was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party, but was later expelled. He went on to become a major figure of 20th -century literature. Pugliese is the author of Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), which was a finalist for a 2009 National Book Critics Award for biography. The late CUA alumnus Frank Mastrangelo, B.A. 1953, and his wife, Catherine, funded the lecture series to support the Italian Studies Program at CUA. The graduating senior who will receive the Mastrangelo Award will be announced at the event. A reception will follow the lecture. Both are open to the public. For more information or to request accommodations for disabilities, contact the modern languages and literatures department at 202-319-5240.