Meetings to reflect, to listen, to take the time to think through the pages of a book. Fermo sui Libri returns to illuminate the Fermo summer with critical sense and literary passion. Now in its ninth edition, this year the exhibition proposes to investigate the theme of the Exempla, understood, already as in the ancient medieval tradition, as edifying stories that aim both at ‘docere’ (teaching) and at ‘delectare’ (entertaining) . The second appointment will have as its guest the historian, essayist and journalist Giordano Bruno Guerri who will be the protagonist of a lectio magistralis on the History of the World tomorrow at 9.15 pm in Piazzale Azzolino in Fermo. Our world has fourteen billion years of history and Giordano Bruno Guerri goes through them by retracing the most important events from the appearance of the human being to today, to tell them without mincing words, going to the heart of the most significant and current issues. From the Big Bang to the graffiti left by the first men in the caves of Altamira and Lascaux, from the invention of writing to the appearance of Christianity, from the Renaissance to the scientific and French revolutions, from the First World War to the ongoing conflicts, up to the new frontiers of technology and research. An exciting narrative, at the tip of the pen, which makes us rush through time to discover with an unprecedented look the greatest story ever told: ours. Giordano Bruno Guerri directed ‘Storia illustrata’, ‘Chorus’ and ‘L’ineditore’, was editorial director of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, president of the high culture institute Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, author and host of television programmes. He is president of the Vittoriale degli Italiani foundation and of the tal forum for the automatic treatment of the language. His books, all still reprinted, are translated into many languages. All Fermo sui Libri 2024 events are free to enter while places last. In case of rain they will take place in the Church of San Filippo. For information call 3384162283.
Angelica Malvatani
