Verbania also celebrates today “Dantedì”, the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri: March 25 is in fact the date that historians indicate as the beginning of the literary journey of the Supreme poet in the “dark forest” told in the Divine Comedy. Today at 5 pm at Villa Simonetta in Intra we discover why Dante is incredibly current, including warfare: “The flowerbed that makes us so ferocious” in his words.
“The intention – explains Silvia Magistrini, president of the Dante Alighieri Society of Verbania who organized the appointment – is to recover the gaze that Dante launches on the world when he is now on the threshold of the vision of God because he is close to Paradise. Beatrice asks him to look back, where human anxieties and anxieties have diminished. Dante sees there, far away, the land immobile in the universe and defines it as a flower bed: a positive term that refers to the beauty of flowers and ornaments. However, he associates it with the ferocity of the human being: it is an image that I had planned to develop for today’s Dantedi well before the outbreak of the war and which in the light of this further event is even more effective. Spring blooms while on TV we witness scenes of pain “. In today’s resolution at Villa Simonetta there is the desire to «reread Dante’s passages not only to update them in a banal way but to make the Poet“ sing again ”on some great themes – says Magistrini -. There are references, for example, to political corruption, that “no becomes yes when money is involved” ».
The resumption of activities
With today the activity of the Dante Alighieri Society of Verbania starts again, blocked like all the associations by the pandemic. On May 20 there will be the shareholders’ meeting at Villa Olimpia in Pallanza. However, other cultural events first.
In April five meetings of «Travel around the world» organized by Magistrini at the University of the Third Age of Verbania. They are afternoons at Villa Giulia where the earth is once again found: various countries of the world presented in a dialogue between landscapes and people. This will be followed by an exhibition between April and May with Il Brunitoio di Ghiffa in the church of Santa Marta in Intra and, on May 12, a theatrical performance with Silva Cristofari.
Today you can still taste the star-shaped “Biscotti di Dante” dedicated by the Biscotti Band to the Supreme Poet.