There Domus Ars (via Santa Chiara, 10C) will host the presentation of the volume The Divine Comedy by Antonio Maria Esposito between miniature, sculpture and spirituality, a tribute to the tiny Divine Comedy in walnut shells kept at the Museodivino in Naples on Saturday October 29, 2022at 16.00.
On the occasion of the presentation in Naples, three authors of the volume will intervene, who will lead the public in the exploration of the most surprising aspects of the illustrative tradition of the Divine Comedy, will be attended by Fara Autiero, Serena Picarelli, Teresa Prudente and Léa Vagner. Moderated by Silvia Corsi, with the participation of Carlo Ossola. The photographer Giorgio Cossu and the publisher Daniele Olschki will be present.
The volume:
Entirely created thanks to the contribution of the National Committee for Dante’s celebrations of 2021, the volume is divided into two parts. The first part, introduced by an article by Professor Collareta of the University of Pisa, is an unprecedented photographic journey inside the 42 walnut shells that make up the Dante series of the collection. The rich photographic apparatus by Giorgio Cossu, accompanied by a textual guide for the reader, accompanies us to the discovery of the tiny and admirable Dante works currently kept in the Divine Museum of Naples. Another part of the volume is instead composed of five critical essays of high academic value aimed at exploring the link that unites in the spheres of miniature, sculpture and spirituality the works of an unknown priest from Stabia to the greatest illustrators of the Divine Comedy, from Rodin to Blake, from Dalì to Doré. The volume also boasts a beautiful introductory essay by the philologist and literary critic Carlo Ossola on the “minimum” in Dante: on the goldsmith’s precision of his verses, on the “ship” and the “small prayer”, on the remorse that drips and drips. like melting snow – and on that “little” smile that radiating from Beatrice’s face illuminated the entire macrocosm of the Comedy.
The presentation will be followed by two musical events:
– At 19.00: “Dante in the Neapolitan Inferno”: short preview of a still unpublished show to discover an entirely Neapolitan reinterpretation of the Divine Comedy by Carlo Faiello with songs, music and poems, from Matilde Pierro to Pasquale Ruocco: on stage Carlo Faiello himself in the company of Sonia De Rosa, Gennaro Monti and Pina Valentino.
– At 20.00: the conference-concert “Dante, Mazzini, Music and the Stars (and a Neapolitan guitar)”, organized with the patronage of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Mazzini.
Rossella Bonfatti of the University of Verona and the classical guitarist Marco Battaglia, will take us through the Dante’s suggestions of the young patriot to listen to a Neapolitan guitar that belonged to himself in a selection of nineteenth-century music, from the little-known pieces for guitar by Paganini to the ” Rossiniana ”by Giuliani, passing through Zani de ‘Ferranti and Legnani.
Author: Ilaria Saitta
Graduated in Modern Languages and Cultures for International Communication and Cooperation, she deals with event organization and writes about cinema, theater and music.
The Divine Comedy by Antonio Maria Esposito between miniature, sculpture and spirituality