On July 29, from 16.00 to 18.30, on Slash Radio Web airs the second date of Imagine. A heritage to read and tell for the cycle 'Art Conversations' to know, imagine and experience cultural heritage through the words and writings of ancient and modern authors.
'The beautiful stylus that did me honor' [Inf. I, 87] Contribution to the year of Dante 2021' is the title of the episode, focused on the Middle Ages and dedicated to Dante and to a possible further path of discovery of his genius and his affective and artistic world.
The initiative contributes to Dante's year, established in 2021, on a proposal from the Ministry of Culture, on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of his death, in the belief that the poet's work, in addition to constituting an inescapable reference for our cultural and linguistic identity and stimulating contemporary creativity, continue to feed an ever-present series of historical-literary, artistic, scientific, juridical and ethical-political reflections.
Program
To open the transmission, after a brief overview of the overall meaning of Comedy and on the value of an extraordinary journey, such as the one undertaken by Dante towards Hell, Purgatory and Paradise to get to see God, will be a discourse on the most 'private' emotions and feelings of the Poet's life, within which some of the most relevant figures of his training, from Virgilio to Stazio, to Brunetto Latini, up to Guido Cavalcanti, Lapo Gianni, Casella, Donato Forese, friends of his youth, to whom he will refer several times in his work with tones now of authentic devotion and affection, now of regret or controversy.
Following, however, will be, thanks to some illuminated codes of the '300 and '400 and with the help of the iconographic and iconological method, the history of the representation of the Comedy itself to give us back how the poem was perceived by the readers of the time and how important it was to read the comments, often the true source of the images even beyond Dante's text, to understand the meaning of some representations or the reason for certain misunderstandings.
Again, we will have the opportunity to listen to which strategic interventions have characterized the planning of theCultural Mediation and Accessibility Area of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence during the pandemic, through the implementation of digital fruition tools and actions envisaged to further improve accessibility to content and strengthen the museum's relationship with visitors with visual impairments.
Therefore, to sign 'our' path around Dante, will be an analysis of his relationship with the figurative arts - not new, but certainly among the lesser known - trying to understand the contribution offered to his poetry by the knowledge of the cultural environment close to him and the role played by the works and artists of 1200 Florence in shaping his imagination as well as the impact of the latter on his work.
The transmission is enriched by pill by SlashArt edited by the Omero State Tactile Museum dedicated to a contribution on The repentant Minataur (1969) by Giorgio de Chirico (on a descriptive basis from canto XII of the Inferno).
Participants
At the broadcast, conducted by Luisa Bartolucci of the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired, will take part: Edvige Acierno, teacher of Italian and Latin Literature at the 'Dante Alighieri' State High School in Rome; Gianni Pittiglio – Art historian at the Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes – MiC; Anna Soffici, Art historian, coordinator of the Cultural Mediation and Accessibility Area of the Uffizi Galleries; Alessio Monciatti, Full Professor of Medieval Art History – University of Molise, currently seconded at the 'Beniamino Segre' Interdisciplinary Center of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; Alessia Varricchio and Annalisa Trasatti of the Omero State Tactile Museum in Ancona; Elisabetta Borgia of the Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes, Service I Studies Office – MiC; Marina Di Berardo, of the Center for Educational Services, Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes, Service I – Studies Office – MiC.
How to follow the episode
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The radio program is edited by the Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes, the Study Office - Center for Educational Services (Sed) in collaboration with Slash Radio Web, the official radio of the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti ONLUS-APS.
The programs broadcast can be listened to on the Sed website www.sed.beniculturali.it, on the website of the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired ONLUS-APS www.uiciechi.it/ArchivioMultimediale and on the Slash Radio Web Facebook page.