The teleconference “Dante Adriaticus. Literature, art and history in the name of Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic” took place on Monday 12 April, the inaugural event of the series of “Dante Adriaticus” initiatives that the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will carry out during this 2021 Dante centenary: the hope is to be able to carry out the subsequent initiatives in person in Verona, Pola and Rome in September and October, in compliance with the current anti-Covid provisions.

Morning session

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwqmRcsJlE

Introduces and moderates
Lorenzo Salimbeni
Communications Manager National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia

 

Institutional greetings

Renzo Codarin
President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia

Joseph of Vergottini
President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles

Caterina Spezzano
Working Table Ministry of Education – Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles

Alessandro Masi
Secretary General of the Dante Alighieri Society

Carmela Lalli
Councilor for School Rights Policies, Cultural Growth, Tourism and Sports of the Municipality IX of Rome Capital

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700 Years of Dante in the Adriatic: A Comprehensive Cultural Journey
Donatella Schürzel – PhD History of Europe (La Sapienza University of Rome)

Dante in Slovenia
Valentina Petaros – Koper Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society

Istria Island and Dante
Eufemia Giuliana Budicin – Retired Documentary Filmmaker Senate Press Office

Dante in Dalmatia
Boško Knežić – Zadar Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society

The relationship between Dante Alighieri and Guido Cavalcanti
Serena Lemucchi – Master's Degree in Philology of Italian Literature

Dante in Montenegro
Martina Salaučić Lompar – Kotor Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society

Dante and Verona
Davide Rossi – Board of Directors of the Atlantide Foundation Teatro Stabile of Verona

Silent Dante, a traveling show on the trail of Dante in Verona
Piermario Vescovo – Artistic Director of the Atlantide Foundation Teatro Stabile of Verona

Afternoon session

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHNHFhjfD8

Introduces and moderates
Donatella Schurzel
Deputy National Vice President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia

 

Dante's Fortune in Art, from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
Maria Grazia Chiappori – PhD in European History (La Sapienza University of Rome)

One Hundred Years of Dante Alighieri Society in Trieste
Fulvio Salimbeni – Trieste Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society

Theatrical reading of the first canto of the Inferno in the Trieste dialect
Isabel russinova
Text taken from the July 1918 issue of the magazine Human by Silvio Benco

Dante's footprint in Pula
Silvana Wruss – Pola Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society

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Moderator:
Maria Grazia Chiappori
National Councillor of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia

 

The system of punishments in Dante's Inferno
Federico Reggio – Professor of Philosophy of Law (University of Padua)

Dante “near Carnaro”
Maja Ðurđjulov – Fiume Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society

Dante in Fiume, symbol of Adriatic irredentism
Marino Micich – Historical Museum Archive of Fiume (Rome)

Reading from Dante's Epistle XIII to Cangrande della Scala
Priscilla Schürzel – Theater workshop Liceo Augusto (Rome)

Dante's Reinterpretations and Revisions from the 19th Century to the Present Day
Barbara Vinciguerra – PhD in Documentary, Linguistic and Literary Sciences (La Sapienza University of Rome)

Reading from the XXVI Canto of the New Life
Lucrezia Schürzel – Russell High School theater workshop (Rome)

 

Conclusions