2019 Programme
Event #13
Lina Bolzoni
The art of reading between past and future
Nowadays technology keeps changing: the Internet and social media rapidly change our way of thinking and communicating. What is the future of reading? Is it really going to disappear, or will it assume new forms? The myths that modern world created come from the past: from Petrarch to Machiavelli, from Tasso to Montaigne, the act of reading is a personal encounter and dialogue with authors. The book becomes a body, a person; writer’s portraits help creating a sort of necromantic remembrance that is able to face death and to establish friendships over time. What will remain in the future of that miracle, as Proust said, that is able to create communication in the middle of loneliness? Bring the event Chiara Marchini and Alessia Muratore from Liceo Classico Parentucelli of Sarzana will read some extracts from classics.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/Lina Bolzoni taught Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at the New York University. She is member of the National Academy of the Licei as well as the British Academy. She curated exhibitions on memory and figurative fortune of the Orlando Furioso. She collaborates for the Sunday supplement of the Sole 24 Ore. Among her books, translated into many languages, La rete delle immagini. Predicazione in volgare dalle origini a Bernardino da Siena (Einaudi, 2002), Il cuore di cristallo. Ragionamenti d’amore, poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento (Einaudi, 2010), Il lettore creativo. Percorsi cinquecenteschi fra memoria, gioco, scrittura (Guida, 2012), Una meravigliosa solitudine. L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna (Einaudi, 2019). For Adelphi she curated Idea del theatro by Giulio Camillo (2015).
Event #6
Alessandro Barbero
Popular revolts in Medieval Europe.
The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)
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Event #16Approfonditamente
Dario Bressanini, Lucilla Titta
Yesterday’s and tomorrow's diets. How to survive fake news?
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Event #21
Paolo Colombo, Michele Tranquillini
Ernst Henry Shackleton. The hero who defeated the Arctic
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Event #25
Roberto Celada Ballanti
The destiny of a community and many religions: is there a dialogue for the future of humanity?
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Event #31Approfonditamente
Marco Ortenzi, Marco Parolini
The real truth about plastic and bioplastic (maybe)
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Event #62didatticaMente
Alberto Pellai, Barbara Tamborini
The emotive education of the hyper-connected generation
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