(AGENPARL) – Rome, 19 June 2024
(AGENPARL) – Wed 19 June 2024 Exclusive: new studies on Dante and the city of Fortune, in Passaggi
Festival a book that rewrites the bond between Fano and the Supreme Poet
The author Andrea Angelucci will talk about it on Wednesday 26 June with Enrico
Capodaglio in the new review ‘Books that talk about books’. Authors e
guests: Simonetta Fiori, Marco Ravelli, Marino Sinibaldi, Davide Eusebi,
Otello Renzi, Gianni D’elia, Tiziana Mattioli, Federica Savini, Mirco
Giulietti
Fano, 19 June 2024 – Inside ‘Books that talk about books’, the
new Passaggi Festival review (Fano, 26/30 June) dedicated to the volumes
that cite, reflect and talk about other volumes and other authors, there will be
also a space dedicated to Dante and his relationship with Fano. The book is
‘Dante and the city of Fortune’ (Metauro Edizioni) written by Andrea
Angelucci, poet and president of the Circolo Bianchini of Fano who is the author
will present on Wednesday 26 June in the Benedictine Cloister in dialogue
with the writer and literary critic Enrico Capodaglio (6.30 pm). One
study that opens a new interpretative path within the masterpiece
Dantesque: at the center of the book we find the epigraph containing the epitaph of
Jacopo del Cassero, preserved in the church of San Domenico in Fano and until now
underestimated as a significant element in the architecture of the Comedy.
Dante imagines having met Messer Jacopo on the slopes of Mount del
Purgatory and – extremely interesting fact – puts a sentence in his mouth
which follows some lines of his epitaph: the exclamation refers
to the role of luck in the episode that led to his death at the hands of
assassins from Azzo VIII d’Este, on the banks of the Brenta. The thesis proposed is
which Dante, knowing the ancient name of Fano, Fanum Fortunae, took up again
the verses of the tombstone to characterize the character of Jacopo as
representative not only of a city but also of a social category,
that of the officers, of the military in general, among whom the cult of
fortunately it must have survived in more or less discovered forms. In the book
Angelucci tries to revive those ancient events and bring them to light
the reasons for Dante’s intertextual operation. Dante chose to
build on Fano and the ancient pagan past one of its buildings of
thought and poetry that concern the theme of luck, death and
of life in the afterlife. The final parts of the volume are dedicated to a
careful stylistic and poetic examination of the sixteen Latin verses of the epigraph of
Fano, also to try to identify the personality of the person who does it
he wrote. To support his hypotheses, the author makes use of a rich
documentation and careful research of the sources that coexist with the
narrative fluency and, where necessary, with dramatic feeling. Not
There is a lack of methodological rigor in the careful variation of subjects and methods
expressive, based on a constellation of broad and competing confirmations.
The exhibition is completed by events inside the former church of San
Francesco: on the same day the journalist Simonetta Fiori and the
political scientist Marco Ravelli will present “The Raskolnikov Library. Books
and ideas for a democratic identity” (Einaudi), followed by
journalist Davide Eusebi and food and wine expert Otello Renzi (28/6) a
tell us about the “Vineyard cultures. Journey through the senses in Mario’s footsteps
Soldiers” (ELI Editorial Group), a meeting which also includes a
thoughtful tasting of Bianchello by the Guerrieri Agricultural Company
of Piagge. The authors will dialogue with Marino Sinibaldi. In memory of
poet and writer Katia MIgliori will be dedicated to the special event ‘Con le
weapons of criticism and poetry’ (27/6) with Tiziana Mattioli (University
of Urbino) and the publisher Federica Savini (Aras Edizioni). It is expected
participation of the poet Gianni D’Elia author of ‘The sister of the dream’
(Luca Sossella Editore) and the preview of the book by Mirco
Giulietti “30 years of Mario Luzi in Montemaggiore. Homage to Katia Migliori”
(Conte Camillo Edizioni). The journalist Alberto will moderate the meeting
Pancrazi. All events have free entry. Full program on
Passaggifestival.it.
*For the press: at this link you can download press releases,
images and other material from the festival*
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e0CT_2XKiTJ3nZk51-rK_0l27Nu-AmQW?usp=sharing
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*Passaggi Festival della Saggistica* – Director: Giovanni Belfiori
