This evening at 7pm, in the Angioino Tower of Bitonto, the Dante Alighieri Society (Bitonto Committee) will hold the meeting “Dante’s Cosmology, yesterday and today”, a lectio magistralis in music, words and verses. Speakers will be Elio Bisceglie (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”) and Nicola Fiorino Tucci (president of the Teachers Association – Bitonto).
This is what is reported in the poster announcing the event: «Those who deal with science, when reading the Divine Comedy, discover that Dante demonstrates a surprising attention to the description of natural phenomena and describes with rigorous precision the physical mechanism, which serves to give greater strength to his verses. Moreover, if, for us, the quantitative description of the physical phenomenon is rigidly separated from any expressive form of its beauty, for Dante Scientia is perfection and a source of happiness. Therefore, for the Russian scholar Pavel Florenskij, Dante’s work is like a treatise on Cosmology written in poetic form, from which it emerges that the Universe cannot be depicted with Euclidean schemes, anticipating, in its complex Ptolemaic-Aristotelian structure, a interpretation, which Einstein develops with different motivations and mathematical formalism».
Schools are invited to participate in the lectio magistralis by booking at the email [email protected].
