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Among the many initiatives that characterize 2021, which marks the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, we would like to highlight an exhibition of postcards and images that demonstrate the evocative power of the figure of the Florentine Supreme Poet. The first commercial advertisements and political propaganda have drawn copiously in the contemporary age from the repertoire of Dante's quotations and have used the most popular representations of the "fugitive Ghibellin". Particularly interesting within the exhibition "Dante in postcards", set up by Emanuela Accornero at Villa De Claricini Dornpacher in Bottenicco di Moimacco (UD) until November 9, are the propaganda images...
Dante and the legends in Istria
This work by Valentina Petaros is certainly intriguing and "curious", in which two important components of her (volcanic) personality find expression. First of all, her relationship with the Supreme Poet: a graduate in Philology and Dante criticism, she has certainly built her education on the figure and work of Alighieri and, in her work, one can feel how everything has materialized, in Petaros, in something more than a simple cultural fact. Valentina is "in love" with Dante (and she has good reason to be). But in Valentina's (big) heart there is also room for another love (in addition, obviously, to family ones) and I am referring to her strong bond with...
Rome, Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic [report]
As part of the events organized for the Dante centenary, the second stage of the “Dante Adriaticus” project took place on Wednesday 30 June and Thursday 1 July 2021, curated by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and financed by Law 72/2001. The initiative "Rome, Dante Alighieri and Adriatic Italianness" took place under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region, the Municipio Roma IX and the Dante Festival. Over the course of these two days, developed by the project's scientific committee (Donatella Schürzel, Maria Grazia Chiappori, Barbara Vinciguerra, Giuliana Eufemia...
Rome, Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic
As part of the events organized for the Dante centenary, the Dante Adriaticus project curated by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia reaches its second stage on Wednesday 30 June and Thursday 1 July. The initiative will take place in the capital with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region, the Municipio Roma IX and the Dante Festival. For the events of 30 June, access is free (in compliance with anti-covid provisions), while the events of XNUMX July can be followed live on the CDM YouTube Channel (Multimedia Documentation Center of Culture...
Dante the irredentist was a manifesto of Italianity for the disputed lands
In an essay published by Carocci, Fulvio Conti retraces seven hundred years of political rereadings and manipulations of the supreme poet, particularly between the two world wars. On the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, books on the subject are flooding the shelves of bookstores. One of the best that has appeared bears the signature of Fulvio Conti: “Il Sommo italiano. Dante e l' identità della nazione” (Carocci, 2021, 242 pages, 18 euros), which traces the transformations of the image of the “divine poet” from the eighteenth century to the present day. Not a biography, therefore, but a scrupulous investigation into how the figure of Dante has been absorbed, manipulated, praised by...
First conference of the ANVGD project “Dante Adriaticus”
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 initiatives “Dante Adriaticus” 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 Introduced and moderated by Lorenzo Salimbeni Communications Manager Association...
Literature, art and history in the Eastern Adriatic in the name of Dante Alighieri
The teleconference “Dante Adriaticus. Literature, art and history in the name of Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic” will take place on Monday 12 April, the inaugural event of the series of initiatives “Dante Adriaticus” that the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will carry out during this 2021 Dante centenary. The scientific committee and the organizational secretariat of this project, financed by Law 72/2001, were established within the Provincial Committee of Rome of the ANVGD: 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 those that...
Mattarella: «Dante, a lesson in coherence»
On the occasion of Dantedì (March 25), a reflection by the Head of State on Alighieri, the father of Italian identity: «Let's not update him at all costs, his moral legacy is eternal» Alberto Cavallari, commenting on a famous reflection by Elias Canetti, argued that «we take refuge in the calendar to relive the present through its anniversaries and to seek a guarantee of what will happen. Dates and anniversaries of certain days are of capital importance in general paranoia and also serve to absorb fear». Who knows if those who today celebrate the seventh centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri (an anniversary if only for...
“Dante Adriaticus” to rediscover the Adriatic Italianness
In an era when it was still premature to speak of State and Nation, Dante had very clear ideas about what the territorial and cultural borders of Italy were. An Italy conceived as a region in which the same language was spoken, observed in the variety of its dialects in De vulgari eloquentia, where Istrian is also mentioned. An Italy conceived in the Divine Comedy “as in Pola near Carnaro, which closes Italy and bathes its borders”, with reference to the Roman necropolis of Pola, which the illustrious poet almost certainly had the opportunity to see during a stay in Istria. In the period of the Risorgimento, in which the Italian language represented a...
Dante and the Adriatic Italianity
March 25, the day on which Dante set the beginning of his otherworldly journey narrated in the “Divine Comedy”, was meritoriously established by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism as “Dantedì” to celebrate one of the fathers of the Italian language. In this regard, we want to remember when, in an era in which it was still premature to speak of State and nation, Dante had very clear ideas about what the eastern border of Italy was. An Italy conceived as a region in which the same language was spoken, sifted through its dialects in the “De vulgari eloquentia”, in which Istrian is also mentioned. An Italy conceived in the Divine...
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