Monday 01 July 2024 – 10:57
The Province of Arezzo celebrate Saturday July 6 in the San Donato Terrace the poet Francesco Petrarcawith an evening of music and poetry entitled : “Poetry in the open air. Petrarca meets contemporary poets”. The initiative, curated by the writer and poetLucrezia Lombardo, has been promoted by the President of the Province of Arezzo Alessandro Polcri and by the Provincial Councilor Simon Pietro Palazzo delegate to territorial marketing, tourism and culture.
President Polcri and Councilor Palazzo declare: “The name of Francesco Petrarca, as we know, is linked to Arezzo and the entire provincial territory, given that he was born here on 20 July 1304 with an intense life marked by meetings and travels. The San Donato Terrace of the Provincial Palace once again hosts, as an open-air living room, an important event to pay homage to one of the most illustrious poets in the history of humanity, who right here in this part of the walls, made his first you pass together with Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, writing the history of the Italian language and literature. A language that has united all Italians, and with this spirit the Province wants to unite all the Municipalities that belong to this territory. With these events we hope that the Provinicia body will return to having a central role also in cultural and tourism policies, with direct financial, political and elective autonomy of the citizens. We would like to thank the curator of the event Lucrezia Lombardo and all the artists for the evening dedicated to Petrarca, enriched by music and for enjoying all together the beautiful view that the Terrazza San Donato offers.”
“In a historical moment like today’s, – declares the writer and poet Lucrezia Lombardo – marked by violence and instability, poetry constitutes, as never before, a necessary nourishment because it is capable of generating beauty. Petrarch, in fact, was the first to sing about the self and its troubled and contradictory feelings, thus inaugurating Humanism and giving rise to an existentialist perspective, which investigates questions of meaning. The same questions that contemporary man, uprooted and alone, is hungry for. And the verses constitute, therefore, the privileged way to rediscover lost meaning and hope. In this spirit, “Poetry in the open air. Petrarca meets contemporary poets”, is not intended to be simply a poetry reading, but a moment in which each of those present can have access to a dimension of light and rediscovered beauty.”
The idea is therefore to put Petrarca’s verses in dialogue with the compositions of some of the major contemporary poets working in the area, who have an important literary production behind them. In fact, female poets will be guests of the event Lucrezia Lombardo, Carla Malerba, Patrizia Fazzi, Fabrizia Fabbroni and the poet Elio Lenzi, who will interpret their lyrics with the musical accompaniment of Francesco Lenziwho has composed pieces specifically for the occasion. The narrator will host the evening Propizia Capaccioliwho will read and interpret some of Petrarca’s most famous verses.
Contemporary poetry will thus be paired with some of the most beautiful sonnets from Petrarch’s “Il Canzoniere”: the poetry reading will open with a choral reading of the famous lyric “Chiare, fresche et dolci acque” with musical background, and will end with a surprise reading, also taken from Petrarch’s works.
The event with free access by reservation, by sending a message/whatsapp to the telephone number 347-9946608, will start at 6 pm with access at the Palazzo della Provincia di Arezzo, from Piazza della Libertà 3.
