200 years Infinito, on Rai tribute of 22 singers

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 19 - "A gift without a face and without a name, a collective declaration of love from great artists towards a poem that we carry inside for the whole life. After all, the songwriting is heir della grandepoesia ": this is how the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities eil Turismo Dario Franceschini commented on the video that together Rai and Mibact have devised to close the bicentenary of the Infinite by Giacomo Leopardi, in which 22 Italian artists read a fragment of poetry. On air on all the Rai channels and on the RaiPlay platform from 19 to 31 December, this sonorous and visual tribute appears as a great-hero of mysterious voices, because the artists' faces and names involved will not be revealed: "We do not want to say that these artists have no having given his voice ", the minister added," the first to hear and see the video today was President Sergio Mattarella, who in 2011 wanted to take a trip to Recanati to the Museum dedicated to the Infinite. From that trip the idea of ​​this initiative was born " . (HANDLE).