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Dante Alighieri.
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March 24, 2021 March 25 is Monday, the national day dedicated to the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
The anniversary was established by the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, in 2020. The choice of the day is not accidental: March 25 is the date that Dante recognizes as the beginning of the journey into the afterlife. literally described in the "Divine Comedy".
This year, Dantedì has an even greater symbolic value, because it falls on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of the father of the Italian language, which throughout Italy, throughout 2021, is celebrated with hundreds of events.
Dante is the very idea of Italy
Il Dantedì, Franceschini pointed out, is "a day to remember Dante's genius throughout Italy and the world with many initiatives that will see a strong involvement of schools, students and cultural institutions. Dante. remembers many things that keep us together: Dante is the unity of the country, Dante is the Italian language, Dante is the very idea of Italy ".
The Dantedì "allows us to revive the memory of the Poet every year, whose memory is vital for the very survival of our national identity", said Professor Carlo Ossola, president of the National Committee for the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death. , holder of the chair of modern literature of neo-Latin Europe at the Collège de France in Paris.
The "Divine Comedy", Ossola wished, "must be, for Italians, in every family, like the nativity scene".
"I hope that, by the end of the year, the Ministry of Education will make a gift of a 'Comedy' for every schoolboy in our Republic".
For professor Claudio Marazzini, president of the Accademia della Crusca, "celebrating Dante is not just remembering a great poet. Because Dante is not just a writer but a literary symbol of the very idea of nation, of the idea of Italy. . And Dante is the great Italian author who has an international stature recognized all over the world, from China to Australia. To speak of Dante is to speak of Italy ".
Benigni reads Dante at the Quirinale
On the occasion of the celebrations for Monday, March 25, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, live on RaiUno, at 19.10, Roberto Benigni reads the XXV Canto del Paradiso in the Salone dei Corazzieri at the Quirinale.
Introduces Serena Bortone, the ancient music group Al Qantarah intervenes.
How to celebrate Dante
On
the website
of the Ministry of Culture there is a rich program of initiatives, constantly updated, within the reach of all those who, despite the pandemic, want to celebrate Dante Alighieri.
Rai celebrates Dante
For the 700th anniversary of the poet's death, Rai has set up a series of initiatives which, starting from Monday, will unfold throughout the year in the schedules of all radio and TV networks.
On
Rai1
, after the live broadcast from the Quirinale, Dante returns in the third evening with the documentary
"Dante and the power"
with a lesson by Professor Alessandro Barbero in an absolutely exceptional place: the monumental complex of Santa Croce, in Florence, next to the basilica that Dante saw born from the first foundations in 1294, a step away from his statue and in the place where the cenotaph awaits his remains to be placed next to those of Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Galileo.
Here Professor Barbero will give life to a lesson on the relationship between Dante and power, with particular attention to the poet's great passion for politics.
Rai3
re-proposes Roberto Benigni's reading of
"Il Quinto dell'Inferno"
, broadcast on Thursday 25 March at 21.20.
Broadcast live on Rai1 on November 29, 2007, the play focused on the passion between Paolo and Francesca of Canto V of Hell, that of love "ch'a nullo amato amar perdona", was then a television success for over 10 million viewers.
To accompany the reading by Roberto Benigni, an introduction by Corrado Augias on the vision of love in Dante and to follow
`` Dante's Italy ''
, a discussion in the studio between Corrado Augias and Aldo Cazzullo, interviewed by Giorgio Zanchini, for to tell not only the Fifth of Hell, but Dante's true, great revolution: having sensed that raising the vernacular to a literary language meant putting into play an instrument capable of unifying a country.
The entire programming of
Rai Storia
is dedicated to Dante
.
From 10 to 13 Dante is revived by a great of our theater, Vittorio Gassman, in the series "Gassman meets Dante".
At 1 pm it was the turn of Carmelo Bene's "Lectura Dantis", the recording of the unforgettable performance that Bene offered on the evening of July 31st 1981, one year after the massacre at the Bologna station.
In the afternoon, instead, space for Dante's story with the "Chronicles from the Middle Ages" which recall his participation in the decisive battle of Campaldino in 1289, an event destined to mark his life, while at 15.30 "Dante Alighieri. A distant homeland" sketches the figure of an exile.
At 4.15 pm Sergio Zavoli's "Diary of a chronicler" opens with the 1965 images of the meeting with Antonio Fusconi, a life dedicated - since 1920 - to the care of Dante's tomb in Ravenna.
Immediately after, an intervention by Professor Giulio Ferroni, a trip to Hell with "aCdC", and an episode of "#maestri" - at 5.50 pm - entirely dedicated to Dante with Professor Carlo Ossola and Professor Luca Serianni.
In the early evening, space for "Alighieri Durante, known as Dante. Life and adventures of a man of the Middle Ages" in which Professor Alessandro Barbero tells the life of the poet, and to follow "Italy. Journey into beauty" with "Dante, ancient and honorable citizen of Florence "with the newly restored face of Dante in Paradise frescoed by Giotto in the Podestà chapel at the Bargello Museum.
At "Passato e Presente", the
Rai Cultura
program
broadcast at 1.15pm and rerun at 8.30pm on Rai Storia, Paolo Mieli hosts Professor Giuseppe Ledda, professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna, member of the scientific committee of the Dante Society Italiana and the Dante Group of the Associazione degli Italianisti, and author of numerous essays on Dante and the Comedy.
The story of the episode, marked by the reading of passages from Dante's works, will follow the path of the creation of the Comedy, linking the composition of the songs to the most significant episodes in the poet's life.
On
Rai5
, on the other hand, at 9.15 pm, “Visioni” analyzes the relevance of Dante's thought from love to faith and, afterwards, the complete reading of the Divine Comedy made by Lucilla Giagnoni in her “Dante Vespers” ends.
The offer of
Radio Rai is
also rich
: among the main events, on Radio1 Giorgio Zanchini hosts Professor Alessandro Barbero on “Radio too”, at 7.30 am;
on Radio2 “Caterpillar”, at 6 pm, he tells Dante in a key “M'illumino di meno” and “Back2Back” makes him listen in the words of the songwriters;
on Radio3 “Fahrenheit” he “re-reads” it from fiction to non-fiction, to children's books with the contribution of teachers and scholars.
RaiPlay and Digital
, dedicate a real "library" to Dante Alighieri, with some collections, browsable online, dedicated to the life of the poet, to the exegesis of the Divine Comedy, and to the interpretation made by the great actors, even at female.
Finally, Dante's life is retraced through the famous script directed by Vittorio Cottafavi in which Dante is played by Giorgio Albertazzi.
Rai Scuola
, from 25 March proposes the 11 lessons of "Encyclopedia infinite. Dante and the Divine Comedy" (at 11 and in reruns at 15, at 19, at 23 and at 3) made by the Dante Alighieri Society.
8 Lessons from the course "For an interactive reading of the Comedy: Dante poet-judge of the earthly world" will be published on the
Rai Scuola
website,
created by the "I Lincei per la Scuola" Foundation and 4 lessons from the Scuola dell'Accademia della Crusca.