It starts on Wednesday, May 23 at 9 pm, at the Teatro Verdi, with "Inferno Novecento", a theater reinterpretation of Hell. Federico Tiezzi brings together Sandro Lombardi and David Riondino around Dante's Comedy. The show, which comes from an idea of the young dramatist Fabrizio Sinisi, compares the major characters of Hell with great icons of the twentieth century (Lady Diana and Dodi Al Fayed, Marylin Monroe, Giulio Andreotti, Andy Warhol, Pier Paolo Pasolini ... ) or with crucial moments in its history. Alternating episodes of Hell with pieces of famous signatures of Italian journalism, we make a journey through the Comedy and a descent into the gorge of the anomalous, tremendous century just passed.

 

Thursday, May 24, at 5 pm, the lesson of Mirko Tavoni at Palazzo Gambacorti will be dedicated to "Dante and the Italian language". At 22.30 the Arsenal Cineclub will present the world premiere of the "Inferior Songs: Dante in video", with the screening of two inaugural works of the series of Guy Massaux inspired by Dante's Inferno: Il Rifugio (canto XXV) 2015 and La dark forest (canto XIII) 2018. The author will be present; will introduce Sandra Lischi.

 

Scheduled for Friday, May 25, at 11.30, at Palazzo Lanfranchi, the inauguration of the exhibition "Dante. Motives and suggestions in contemporary graphics ". New this year, do not miss the scheduled appointment from 17 to 18.45 and from 19.15 to 21 in the Courtyard of the Palazzo della Carovana (Scuola Normale Superiore): the choreographer Nicola Galli will present an immersive virtual video installation of dance at 360 ° , created exclusively for this edition of Danteprima and realized thanks to the support of the Scuola Normale and the scientific contribution of the SMART Laboratory. The event will be repeated Saturday 26, from 11 to 12.45. The public will be conducted in the wonderful destination described by the poet as a lush garden created by God and home to humanity, crossed by the rivers Lete and Eunoè. Wearing a virtual reality viewer, the viewer is invited to discover this place three-dimensionally and to enter into a relationship with the five dancers who accompany him in a metaphorical journey towards purification and ascent (performance by reservation, duration 15 minutes). Scheduled at 22 in reading in Piazza dei Miracoli with some of the greatest contemporary poets (Maurizio Cucchi, Mariangela Gualtieri, Vivian Lamarque, Valerio Magrelli, Emilio Rentocchini), who will read their poems with the musical accompaniment of Massimo Bubola. The event is promoted in collaboration with the Poesia Festival / Unione Terre di Castelli; will introduce Alberto Bertoni.

 

Grand finale of the Dante festival on Saturday 26 May. Also back this year the walk to discover the city of Pisa Dante. The event is scheduled for 11, with departure from Palazzo Boilleau (Aula Magna), for a journey led by Marco Collareta, a Pisan professor and expert in medieval art, who will tell the story of art in Pisa at the time of Dante. At 6 pm, in the Sala degli Stemmi of the Scuola Normale Superiore, we will go out to review the stars with the final lecture of Giovanni Maria Flick, president emeritus of the Constitutional Court. The day will end in a dialogue between poetry and music: Michael Gȕttler will direct the Dante Symphonie by Franz Liszt in the evocative setting of Piazza dei Cavalieri (22 hours): we will see on stage Danteprima the Orchestra Archè and the Choir Ars Lyrica directed by Marco Bargagna. Final surprise with the Dante reading by Sandro Lombardi.

 

Three round tables of in-depth study of the Dante festival: May 25, at 15.30, at Palazzo Blu, on the Risorgimento myth of Dante will speak Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa), Gianmario Cazzaniga (University of Pisa), Francesco Leone (University of Chieti ), Amedeo Quondam (La Sapienza University); at 5 pm, in the same location, we will talk about Chiesa and Dante with Daniele Menozzi (Scuola Normale Superiore), Adriano Prosperi (Scuola Normale Superiore), Francesco Traniello (University of Turin), Giovanni Maria Vian (Director "Osservatore Romano"). Saturday 26, at 4 pm, in the Sala degli Stemmi of the Scuola Normale Superiore, on the theme of "empire, tyrants, municipalities" will converse Gianfranco Fioravanti (University of Pisa), Diego Quaglioni (University of Trento), Gian Maria Varanini, (University of Verona ), Jean Claude Maire Viguer (University of Rome3), Andrea Zorzi (University of Florence).