Arezzo, 28 June 2024 – The Passioni Festival closes the second day of the event – the first in the Fortezza – with applause for the journalist and writer Sergio Rizzo who yesterday, together with the journalists Federico D’Ascoli and Matteo Giusti, presented his latest book “I am me. How politicians have become untouchable again”, published by Solferino.
It was an hour full of themes and ideas around our political system and our ruling class. Sergio Rizzo, pressed by questions from D’Ascoli and Giusti, painted a not too comforting picture of the current political situation and that of the last twenty years. Today therefore opens the third day of the event.
The Passioni Festival remains in the Fortezza and returns to talking about Giorgio Vasari. It will do so, starting from 6.00 pm, with two exceptional guests: Paolo Giulierini, former director of the MANN of Naples and of the MAEC of Cortona, and Stefano Causa, professor of History of modern art and expert on Vasari in Naples, as well as curator of exhibitions for the Capodimonte Museum.
And the relationship between Naples and Vasari will be the central theme of the meeting. Giulierini and Causa will focus on the works that Vasari created on the slopes of Vesuvius, such as the Vasari Sacristy of Sant’Anna dei Lombardo, the Crucifix in San Giovanni a Carbonara, the Allegory of Justice at the Capodimonte Museum and many others .
Tomorrow, Saturday 29 June, the Passioni Festival closes the week at the Fortezza with the arrival of two more super guests from the world of Italian culture and journalism. It will start at 15:30 so as to finish by 18:00 to allow everyone to follow the National team’s match at the European Championships against Switzerland.
At 3:30 pm it’s time for the writer and teacher Eraldo Affinati, who will talk with Andrea Matucci to present his latest book published by Gramma Feltrinelli “Le città del mondo”. Affinati, a skilled lecturer and trainer, as well as a refined writer, in 2008 founded together with his wife Anna Luce Lenzi the Penny Wirton School for the free teaching of the Italian language to migrants.
On May 7, 2021, he was appointed Commander of the Italian Republic by motu proprio of President Sergio Mattarella. After the meeting with Affinati, there will be a short interlude with the reading by Cinzia della Ciana, together with Andrea Matucci, of an excerpt from Della Ciana’s book “Genius and Regularity in the Renaissance”, published by Helicon Edizioni.
It will be a very suggestive moment during which Della Ciana and Matucci will alternate in reading giving voice to an “impossible dialogue” between Vasari and Maecenas. The grand finale on Saturday is entrusted to one of the most brilliant and pungent journalistic pens of our country. Filippo Ceccarelli, historical editorialist of Repubblica and expert in Italian politics will present his latest work “B. Una vita troppo”, published by Feltrinelli.
A magnificent fresco of the thousand lives of Silvio Berlusconi created by one of the journalists who has followed the political events of the Cavaliere most closely over the last thirty years. The journalist Luigi Alberti will be in conversation with him. The Passioni does not end here and closes the XIIth edition on Thursday 4 July at the Tenuta di Frassineto together with a super guest like Giobbe Covatta who will present his latest book “Il commosso viaggiatore – Alla scoperta dell’Africa”, published by Giunti.
There will be a welcome aperitif at 8.30pm and then space for one of the most exuberant and original personalities of Italian comedy. All events have free entry while seats last.
