Saturday, September 25, 9.30 pm
UMBRIA GREEN FESTIVAL – O tu ch’onori scienzia e arte. Science and Nature in Dante
With Valerio Rossi Albertini
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Valerio Rossi Albertini, physicist-chemist, first researcher at the National Research Council, professor of Science Dissemination at the University of Rome 2 and television popularizer. For the first time he will also be the actor, author and director of a show conceived for Umbria Green Festival, focusing on Dante and his relationship with Science and Nature. Through films, declamation of verses, empirical demonstrations, Albertini will make us know all the scientific aspects within the Divine Comedy through a recital/reading from the work of the”Sommo Poeta”. The show will be entitled: O tu ch’onori scienzia e arte (O thou, who every art and science valuest!).
Dante had studied in depth the science of his time and wrote the Convivio, the first treatise of scientific divulgation in the vernacular language, the same language of the Comedy, just to educate those who had not had the opportunity to study scientific disciplines. With the same spirit, Dante inserts in the Divine Comedy solid and coherent models of astronomy and geodesy, believing that high poetry can never be separated from the knowledge of the world. In fact, when he addresses his teacher Virgil in the presence of the Great Spirits, he attests to his scientific and poetic merits: “O thou, who every art and science valu’st” Inf. IV, 73.
With the use of mechanical and audiovisual models, introduced by readings of passages from the Divine Comedy, then paraphrased to fully grasp the meaning, the show / conference will ideally lead the public through the three realms of the Underworld, with explanations, anecdotes, paradoxes and references to the following ages, that only a universal genius like Dante can inspire at a distance of seven centuries after his death.
The event was organized with the support of funds “POR FESR Umbria 2014-2020 – Az. 3.2.1 – Public Notice for participation in Live Shows Project”.
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