A Dante in a different vision from the more known and stereotyped one we are used to. A Dante who takes off the role of the Supreme Poet in a red dress typical of our imagination, to fully immerse himself in his era and in his biography, albeit closely intertwined with the works and in particular with the Vita Nova, the De vulgari eloquentia and obviously the Commedia.
It is “Dante among the flames and the stars”, the inaugural show of the VII edition of the Biennale Democrazia of Turin, this year entitled “One planet, many worlds”, dedicated to our condition as inhabitants of a single planet, more and more connected but at the same time increasingly fragmented.
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700 years after his death
The show, written during the lockdown and also designed to be included in the year of the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the Poet’s death, will premiere at the Teatro Carignano, with the collaboration of the Teatro Stabile.
“Dante among the flames and the stars” is a monologue written by the author and actor Matthias Martelli, with the musical accompaniment of the cellist Lucia Sacerdoni, who will interpret the music written by Matteo Castellan and recited by Martelli himself. The direction of the show is entrusted to Emiliano Bronzino, with the co-production of the Fondazione Teatro Ragazzi and Giovani Onlus and the scientific advice on the text of the president of the Accademia della Crusca Claudio Marazzini and the historian Alessandro Barbero, whose book on Dante published by Laterza is one of the texts used as an initial source for writing.
After its debut at Carignano, the show will move to the Gobetti Theater in Turin until October 24. «This performance – explains Martelli – is a sort of hymn to Dante’s biography and his ambivalences as a man. It is treated in an almost jolly way, in the manner of medieval theater and Dario Fo, with many characters, such as Beatrice and Bonifacio VIII, whom I tried to reinterpret to create a sort of dialogue within the monologue ». The show, which will last about an hour and a half and will start just like Barbero’s book from the battle of Campaldino (in which Dante also participated), will highlight in particular the more human aspect of the Poet, a cross-section of the society of the age in which he lived and his use of the language.