The Art of the True Neapolitan Pizza

press release: Room 126, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 728 State St.

The talk will be in Italian with English translation.

Antonio Pace is the Founder and President of the Association of the Real Neapolitan Pizza. The Neapolitan pizza was included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity on 2017.

The focus of this talk is the art of making the authentic Neapolitan pizza, tracing its history, describing the mission of the “Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana” (founded in 1984), and explaining the “Pizzaiuolo” art of making Neapolitan pizza included in the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017.

Free and open to all. 

This event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana.

For more information, contact Prof. Grazia Menechella (Department of French and Italian, UW-Madison) gmeneche@wisc.edu