The Day of Poetry between flash mob and Dantedì

Flash mobs, poetic stand-ups, direct facebook: in the days of the pandemic, the World Poetry Day is celebrated on social networks, which looks as a highlight to the Supreme Poet and to the first edition, March 25, of Dantedì, established by the government, which involves schools, museums, libraries, places of culture and artists. "This first edition takes place in a particularly difficult moment. The many initiatives already planned are moving onto the web. For this reason, I appeal to the artists: on March 25, read Dante and post your content. Dante is the Italian language, it is the idea itself of Italy. And it is precisely at this moment that it is even more important to remember him in order to remain united ", stressed the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini.

The appointment is Wednesday, March 25 at 6pm Italian at the sound of the triplets of the fifth song of Hell: "Love, which is learned by the gentle rat, took him from the beautiful person who was taken from me; and the way still I am offended by love, which, as you can see, still does not abandon me "to share on social networks with the hashtag #stoacasacondante #ioamolacultura #WeAreItaly. It is a way, explains the Dante Alighieri Society, to "declare our love for Italy with Dante". A worldwide campaign to celebrate the Supreme Poet "for the first time while the coronavirus" offends "us, keeping us separate from the places and people we love, while Love and Dante unite us" he explains. Also pills traveling on Dante's places with Giulio Ferroni who dedicated to 'Alighieri's' Dante's Italy' (La Nave di Teseo +), a trip to the country of Comedy.

For the Poetry Day Ferroni also suggests reading a poem, 'Waiting for the barbarians' by Kavafis "an author - he says - that I have always loved very much and that makes us question the decadence of civilization". "It is that the barbarians arrive today. / What laws do you want the senators to do? / The barbarians will come to legislate" are among the verses of the Greek poet. "The barbarians today are the coronavirus and we are facing the western society that should rebuild its horizons and does not do it," Ferroni says to ANSA. On the social networks of the Pordenon festival, poetic stand-up at 10 on March 21 with the voices of many young Italian authors and authors from Maria Borio to Tommaso Di Dio to Maddalena Lotter, Bernardo De Luca, Giulia Rusconi, Greta Rosso and Gian Maria Annovi, all together in a poetry video for the project curated by Valentina Gasparet, Alberto Garlini, Gian Mario Villalta and Roberto Cescon. While with the voices of Kevin Spacey, Alessandro Haber and Marton Csokas, the National Roman Museum proposes the multimedia project Rovine 'on its Facebook page, at noon on its Facebook page, the first audio-guide that offers the story of the works on display with recited poetic contributions . And among the proposals for the little ones Gallucci recalls the verses of Roberto Piumini from 'Io, Pi': "the poet has no silver, / has no pearls and has no gold: / the poet has only the song, / divisible treasure" .