Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
5 March – 30 July 2017
GUESTS AT THE ROCCA – from 5 March
TREASURES FROM THE VALNERINA – from 9 April
An extraordinary body of works join the collections on display at the Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto, for a unique exhibition, a tribute to the vitality of Umbria, a land that knows how to react. The exhibition is strictly connected to the fundraising campaign to support the restoration of works damaged by the earthquake.
Umbria is a land that reacts to the events with the strength of her cultural heritage. From 5 March to 30 July 2017, the Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto will host a series of works that were spared from ruin after the recent earthquake in Central Italy, thanks to an important exhibition organized by Regione Umbria, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Assets and Tourism, Spoleto-Norcia Archdiocese and the City of Spoleto. Sistema Museo will be the exhibition’s operative managing subject. The event is included in the “Discovering Umbria” programme, supported by Regione Umbria to promote and highlight the museum activities.
The exhibition “Treasures from the Valnerina” opens on 5 March with a body of works coming from areas of Marche, Lazio and Umbria, that were struck by the earthquake, an evidence of solidarity among areas sharing such a mournful event, as well as cultural and artistic roots. The exhibition features works selected following various criteria, yet they all show a very deep symbolism, such as the 16th-century Wooden Crucifix from the church in Sant’Anatolia di Narco, a 16th-century “Madonna with Child” from Avendita, the Annunciation by Andrea della Robbia from the Castellina Museum, Norcia, an exquisite “Madonna with Child” (painting on table) by Ulisse da Siena, previously at the Diocesan Museum in Ascoli Piceno, and a refined “St. Sebastian” dating to the second half of the 17th century, coming from Scai, close to Amatrice. The exhibition is strictly tied to the crowdfunding campaign that started on 1 February, to support the restoration of other works of art that were damaged by the seism. It is possible to participate in the campaign here: (https://valorecultura.starteed.com/it/lightquake).
From 9 April, a wide selection of works already restored after 24 August 2016, will be included in the exhibition “Treasures from the Valnerina”. These artistic treasures are ambassadors to Italy and to the world of Umbria’s vitality, a “collective tribute” to an invaluable richness of art and history.
The 2016 earthquake struck hard the cultural heritage of an area of Umbria, the Valnerina, which is for many the place of soul. Not only a land of spirituality, tied to St. Benedict and St. Rita from Cascia, but also a harmonious whole of landscape, burgs, churches, and works of art, now wounded by the merciless shocks that started on 24 August and went on for the whole autumn, 2016. The work and self-denial of many who operated in this emergency (MiBACT, Fire Brigade Units, Italian Army, Civil Defence, Carabinieri’s Cultural Heritage Protection Unit, Volunteers) allowed to rescue many works from damaged churches and museums in Valnerina, and to store them in the Santo Chiodo di Spoleto specialized depot (4000, so far). From here, they will be able to receive the “cures” by restorers at the Vatican Museums, at the Florence Opificio delle Pietre Dure and other skilled restorers, and wait to return to their original settings, when ready. In the meantime, thanks to the project “Discovering Umbria”, it will be possible to see a significant part of them in an exhibition at the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto, where they will be on display from 9 April.
What will be possible to see in the Spoleto exhibition is the result of a committment that started soon after the earliest shocks, a sign of the professionalism and competence of the many who were called to protect the cultural heritage. Only a small part of Umbria was directly damaged by the earthquake, even if the images of seriously-struck churches have moved many a heart, but the will of the Umbrian community is that of not giving up and continue to protect their historical and artistic heritage.
The earthquake’s wounds are faced by bodies and people with the invitation to all those who love Umbria to come and visit its museums and monuments, which are open, vital, and offer an extraordinary view on history, art, environment and traditions.
DISCOVERING UMBRIA
“Discovering Umbria” shows a land that reacts to the events with the strength of its cultural heritage. Art and history meet in the region’s museum network, that features more than 170 museums, ecomuseums and archaeological sites. In the land of Giotto, Signorelli, Perugino and Burri, each museum is an evidence of the connection between community and land.
Museums represent the main tool to know the history, art, burgs and landscape of Umbria: hundreds of proposals, itineraries and curiosities that raise intense emotions, an invitation to discover the art that has marked the history of this land and become one with the contemporary.
Evening walks to discover Spoleto, every Tuesday and Thursday, at 20.30 (meeting at 20.15)
Find out the schedule of November, December and March
Information: +39 338 1634018
Facebook: SpoletoCammina
RULES OF CONDUCT
– Participants are required to observe the street code
– Walk on the sidewalks
– Walk on the edge of the road
– Cross over the pedestrian strips
– Do not anticipate the guide
– Keep in touch with those who precede
– Follow the escorts’ suggestions
Those who have pre-existing health problems or perceive they experience intense physical exertion when walking are advised to consult their own trusted physician before starting.
Promoters and escorts are not liable for any damages to persons or things happening during the activity. SPOLETOCAMMINA-nov-dic-2017-marzo-2018
Every Thursday, starting from May 18, guided tours to the Deposito dei Beni Culturali di Santo Chiodo (Santo Chiodo cultural heritage Repository) on the occasion of the Tesori dalla Valnerina (Treasures from Valnerina) exhibition.
Visits at 15.00 and 16.00, with compulsory reservation before 12.00 on Thursday.
Accompanied by an art historian, participants will be able to admire the repository, a place where artworks are temporarily welcomed and “cured” in order to return them to their places of origin within the shortest possible time. The repository houses more than 5000 works of historical and artistic importance, books and historical documents that were recovered from the damages caused by the Central Italy earthquake of 2016 . The safeguard measures that the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Umbria has planned with the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence will concern in a year the largest possible number of works among those sheltered at the Santo Chiodo Repository, according to a logic of’ prompt intervention’ on the most serious damages, in order to stop the process of degradation. These operations are accompanied by an accurate work of indexing and cataloguing. A true heritage to safeguard.
During the visit, the guide will explain the work of recovering as well as the functions and characteristics of the repository itself. The visit also includes the entrance to the restoration workshop where restorers will explain phases, techniques and procedures of these delicate interventions.
Participation fee: € 6
50% of the proceeds will contribute to the restoration of the artworks damaged by the earthquake.
Information and reservations:
Sistema Museo
Phone 0743.224952 – 340.5510813
spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Camilla Ancilotto (Mutaforma), Giuseppe Biasio (Opere 1973-20..) Tommaso Pincio (Sfere Celesti) and Giuseppe Ripa (Home Ground) at Palazzo Collicola, Julien Friedler (La Forêt del âmes – 2010) at SS. Giovanni e Paolo church, Dario Ghibaudo (Sculture da viaggio) at the Roman House: these are the proposals of Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive art director Gianluca Marziani on the occasion of the 60th Festival of Two Worlds.
Exhibitions’ opening: June 24 at 12.00
Camilla Ancilotto, Giuseppe Ripa, Giuseppe Biasio e Tommaso Pincio exhibitions will continue until Sunday October 29.
Find out more at www.palazzocollicola.eu
In 1958 Spoleto welcomed the first great multidisciplinary art and performance review of the twentieth century, conceived by Gian Carlo Menotti as an opportunity for cross-cultural contamination between Europe and the United States of America.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this fantastic creation, the City promotes a major exhibition entitled 1958-2017 – The City in the Festival a Festival in the City.
The exhibition itinerary ideally starts from Rocca Albornoz, with section 1958: alle radici della storia, and concludes in the former church of Sant’Agata, reopened for the occasion, where visitors are plunged into an evocative story of the art events of the last 60 years. This long and suggestive tale unravels across the city along the mechanized paths leading to the Old Town and in commercial activities.
A project conceived and carried out by Emaki Immagine e comunicazione, with the organization and coordination of Stefano Bonilli and Mario Brunetti’s artistic direction.
The section of the exhibition 1958: alle radici della storia is edited by Antonella Manni and Rosaria Mencarelli with the collaboration of Spoleto State Archive Department. The section 1958/2017 set up in the Church of S. Agata has been organized in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum – Roman Theater of Spoleto.
Inauguration: Thursday 29 June at 5.30 pm at Palazzo Mauri
The exhibition venues:
Church of S. Agata 1958/2017
Casa Menotti – Festival of the Two Worlds Documentation Center
Mechanized routes
Ponzianina / Rocca – 1958: alle radici della storia
Section of Spoleto / Largo Giuseppe Ermini State Archives
Spoletosphere / Piazza della Libertà
Posterna / Piazza Campello
Commercial activities of the Old Town
Information:
aciemmearte@gmail.com, mob. 339.5993281.
National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto tel. 0743.224952 – info@museoducato.it
Municipality of Spoleto – Piazza del Comune, 1 – 06049 Spoleto (PG) – Office +39 (0) 743.218.249 – +39 (0) 743.218.276 – email: ufficio.stampa@comunespoleto.gov.it
Guided visits to the Rocca’s Chemins de Ronde
On Saturdays and Sundays at 10.45 and 11.30
The guided visits will offer the opportunity to walk on the Chemins de Ronde from which it was possible to admire the valley underneath since ancient times, and give a better understanding of the strategic position of the Rocca.
Cost: € 5,00
The activity implies buying the museum’s regular ticket, as under the Law.
Discounts available for Spoleto Card holders.
Reservation is strongly encouraged.
In case of bad weather conditions please call 0743 224952.
Information and reservations: T. 0743.224952 | M. 340.5510813 | Email museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it.
Sunday 1 October at 18.00 the Galleria ADD-art Spoleto will open with the Autumn exhibition.
Works by SERGIO BALDASSINI and PAOLO SCARFONE will be featured, as well as DAVID POMPILI‘s last works and the preview of “Atlas Mnemosyne” byALESSANDRA BALDONI (the full Atlas Mnemosyne project will be brough about in Berlin first, then in June in Spoleto).
1 October – 24 November 2017
opening Sunday 1 October at18:00
opening time: Monday through Friday 16:30-19:30
Saturdays and Sundays, please take an appointment
Info:
Galleria ADD-art
via Palazzo dei Duchi 6 – Spoleto
info@add-art.it | +39 334 5380780
www.add-art.it
Purchase the SPOLETO CARD and you will be able to join special guided tours for free.
With the SPOLETO CARD small groups can reserve thematic tours at the special rate of € 25,00.
DISCOVERING UMBRIA
visit to the exhibition Treasures from the Valnerina
Sunday 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October h. 15.30
Meeting place: Rocca Albornoz – ticket office
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Other activities for Spoleto Card holders:
Guided visits to the Rocca’s Chemins de Ronde
Saturday and Sunday at h. 10.45 and h. 11.30
Meeting place: Rocca Albornoz – ticket office
Guided visits to Santo Chiodo Cultural Heritage repository
Thursday 5, 12, 19, 26 October at h. 15.00 and h. 16.00
Meeting place: Santo Chiodo cultural heritage repository
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CREATIVE WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES
Sunday 1 October
h. 17.00
SUMMER LAB – THE ROOM OF WONDERS
Tactile workshop
Meeting place: Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts – ticket office
Free for Spoleto Card holders
THEMATIC GUIDED TOURS
Friday 6, 13, 20, 27 October
MEZZ’ORA DOPO LA CHIUSURA
Reductions for Spoleto Card holders
Information and reservation: Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Piazza Collicola – Tel. 0743 46434 – 0743 224952 – e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Information: IAT di Spoleto – Tel. 0743 218620 info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Further info on www.spoletocard.it
Rendez-Vous Danse Française Autumn Events will start on Thursday, October 12, 2017 with a series of workshops and performances of contemporary dance.
All the events have been designed under the art direction of Carole Magnini for Evidanse association, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Rome, French Institute, Francia in scena, Rocca Albornoz-Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto, Roman Theater-Archaeological Museum, Municipality of Spoleto, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Sistema Museo.
Three representative personalities of French contemporary dance will perform and hold training courses: Christine Gérard, Sophie Quénon and Brigitte Hyon. French photographer Isabelle Levy-Lehman will also take part in some events (for information call 3480872126 or write an e-mail to carolemagnini@yahoo.fr).
On Thursday, October 12, Christine Gérard and photographer Isabelle Levy-Lehman will hold an intensive workshop on choreographic technique, improvisation and composition (open to everybody) from 10 am to 4 pm at Rocca Albornoz; at 17.00, presentation of Le temps traversé, Christine Gérard and Isabelle Lévy Lehmann’s dance-video duo; at 18, meeting-debate Voyage au cours du temps, Heritage and Contemporaneity through dance.
On Friday, October 13, Gestes – Rendez Vous une Danse pour la terre, on-site performance and video shooting at different city locations.
Saturday, October 14th, another workshop from 10 am to 1 pm.
From November 1 to 5, Gestes – Rendez Vous une Danse pour la terre, on-site performance and video shooting between Spoleto and Valnerina (times and places to be defined) with Sophie Quénon, dancer, teacher, choreographer and founder of Dernier Soupir Company.
On December 2 and 3, again at Rocca Albornoz, a Contemporary Dance Intensive Workshop with choreographer Brigitte Hyon, dancer at Dominique and Françoise Dupuy’s Company, choreographer and teacher (among her students Carole Magnini herself), former director of the RIDC, Françoise and Dominique Dupuy’s training center, and training director at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris.
For information and registration you can call 348 0872126 or write to carolemagnini@yahoo.fr
Press Info: Antonella Manni aciemmearte@gmail.com, 339 5993281
LECTURAE DANTIS 2017
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri
After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.
Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.
During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).
Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.
Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.
READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)
6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic
24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza
15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.
At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.
On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.
Future meetings:
Friday 27 October
LIGHTNING STRIKES… TODI
Dorica Manconi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Stefano Spiganti – Archaeologist
Friday 10 November
SETTLING DYNAMICS IN PRE-ROMAN UMBRIA
Laura Bonomi Ponzi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Friday 24 November
THE MAID OF PLESTIA, HER FUNERARY OUTFIT AND THE FUNERARY RITUALS IN THE NECROPOLIS AT SERRAVALLE DI CHIENTI
Nicoletta Frapiccini – Polo Museale delle Marche, Director at Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche and Musei Archeologici Statali of Ascoli Piceno, Arcevia, Cingoli, Numana and Urbisaglia
Friday 1 December
THE SABINES: A PEOPLE OF ITALY AMONG MYTH, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. NEW LIGHTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT COLLE DEL FORNO
Enrico Benelli – Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico – CNR Rome
Friday 22 December
THE NECROPOLIS AT PIAZZA D’ARMI, NEW INTERPRETATIONS, RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS
Nicola Bruni – Associazione Astra
Joachim Weidig – Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Fabio Fazzini – Archaeologist
Friday 19 January
ROMAN ASSISI
Laura Manca – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Friday 9 February
THE ABBEY OF SASSOVIVO: ARISTOCRACIES AND RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LATE OSTEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Roberta Taddei, Lia Barelli, Maria Romana Picuti – Università La Sapienza, Rome
Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società
Friday 9 March
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE SPOLETO TEATRO NUOVO: THE LATE-ANCIENT BUILDING IN THE CITY’S URBAN FABRIC
Matelda Albanesi – Archaeologist
Moreno Orazi – Architect
Friday 23 March
CARSULAE: RESULTS OF THE LATEST EXCAVATION CAMPAIGNS
Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini – Associazione Astra
Friday 13 April
THE CHARIOT OF MONTELEONE DI SPOLETO
Francesco Roncalli – Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli
Friday 16 May
THE ANCIENT CITY OF GUBBIO: NEW DATA FOR ITS KNOWLEDGE
Luana Cenciaioli – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Musei Archeologici Nazionali di Perugia e Orvieto
Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto
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2017/2018 Prose Season
27 October 2017 – 8 March 2018
Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Dapporto, Monica Guerritore, Francesca Reggiani, Asia Argento, Filippo Dini, David Coco, Liv Ferracchiati are but some of the protagonists of the Spoleto 2017-2018 Prose Season that includes 7 plays, six at the Teatro Nuovo and one at the Caio Melisso.
The start is on Friday 27 October at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo “Menotti” with Occident Express (Haifa è nata per star ferma). Written by Stefano Massini, it features Ottavia Piccolo and the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo. In 2015 an old woman from Mosul flees with her 4-yo granddaughter, covering 5.000 Km from Iraq to the Baltic Sea, across the so-called Balcan Route. This is her story.
Friday 24 November at 21, at the Teatro Nuovo, it’s the turn of Mariti e Mogli, adapted and directed by Monica Guerritore who is also in the cast along with Francesca Reggiani. The play is freely adapted from Woody Allen’s much praised film.
Saturday 9 December at 21, again at the Teatro Nuovo, Massimo Dapporto is the protagonist of Un borghese piccolo piccolo, extraordinary novel by Vincenzo Cerami who inspired Monicelli’s cinema masterpiece, a tragic comedy that offers hilarious moments. Adaptation and direction by Fabrizio Coniglio.
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 January at 21 and Wednesday 10 January at 18 at the Teatro Caio Melisso – spazio Carla Fendi, it is the time of Todi is a small town in the center of Italy, written and directed by Liv Ferracchiati. What is life like in an Italian small town? Michele, Stella, Elisa and Caroline are four guys from Todi. A fifth character, a documentarist, connects fiction to reality observing and noting the features of the city and its inhabitants. What is life like in a place where everybody knows everyone? What should you rather avoid doing in Todi? These are but some of the questions that were actually asked to more than a hundred people in Todi, that the play aims at giving back through a collage that supports the story of the four protagonists.
Saturday 20 January at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the Györ Ballet Company (one of the oldest, most praised European contemporary dance companies) will stage two masterpieces, Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Friday 9 February at 21, Teatro Nuovo, Il Giuramento by Claudio Fava, directed by Ninni Bruschetta and featuring David Coco. Heads, you can count them or cut them. The fascist regime didn’t choose one. It counted 1238 and cut twelve, casual heroes of those who only have left an extreme resource of dignity, that of refusal. This happened on 13 November 1931. The theatre play tells the story of one of them.
Thursday 8 March at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the closing play will be Rosalind Franklin. Il segreto della vita by Anna Ziegler, directed by Filippo Dini, featuring Asia Argento, Filippo Dini. The Great History, the discovery of DNA, and the extraordinary tale of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s last years, facing one of the most important, debated discoveries in the history of scientific research.
Tickets
On the day of the plays, starting from 16, please call the Botteghino Teatro Nuovo GIAN CARLO MENOTTI – tel. 0743 222647
Online
www.teatrostabile.umbria.it
phone reservation
weekdays, from 16 to 20, till the day before the play
Botteghino Telefonico Regionale del Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria – tel. 075 57542222
Reserved tickets shall be picked up at the theatre’s box office not any later than 20.00 on the day of the play
subscriptions
Botteghino del Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – tel. 0743 222647
from Monday 16 to Monday 23 October, from 17.00 to 19.00
pre-emption for last season’s subscribers
from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 October
new subscriptions
from Thursday 19 to Monday 23 ottobre
Subscription prices
€ 91 – € 84 – €77 – € 63 depending on the age and the chosen seat
Ticket prices
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – €10 depending on the age and the chosen seat
Hiking, tasting, entertainement and games to discover local landscapes and excellences
Spoleto participates in the XXth edition of Frantoi Aperti, with a rich schedule of appointments that celebrate Umbria and her oil-mills, farms, and smallest museums.
From Sunday 29 October to Wednesday 1 November, hikes, tasting, readings and games will help participants dive into the most charming and typical landscapes and discover the true flavour of Umbrian extra-virgin olive oil and other local products. Besides, restaurants in downtown Spoleto will offer a bruschetta with new oil before any meal.
The opening will be on Sunday 29 October with a Camminata tra gli Olivi (a stroll through the olive groves) organized in collaboration with the Spoleto section of Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) and MTB Club Spoleto. The meeting will be at the Ponzianina Parking at 8.15, the start being at 8.30ish. The 9-km hike includes the Giro dei Condotti toward San Ponziano, San Salvatore (UNESCO WHL), a part of the former Spoleto-Norcia railway, and a tasting by the Tenuta le Casselle. The return to Spoleto will be on the former Spoleto-Norcia railway. A 30-km bike route will take place on the Spoleto-Assisi bike path and on unsurfaced roads toward Campello, Bazzano, Poreta, Eggi, Colle Marrozzo. Participation is free of charge, reservation by Saturday 28 October is required (subject to availability). To reserve, please e-mail or call: info@iat.spoleto.pg.it; ph. 0743 218631 / 218620.
Still on Sunday 29 October at 17, by the Public Library in Palazzo Mauri, Olive Trees, Trees of Peace by and with Sabina Antonelli. Animated storytelling and workshops, also included in the project “Born To Read”.
Tuesday 31 October, in the frame of the XIVth Urban Trekking National Day 2017, there will be a 3-km hike featuring guided visits and called “From the Legend of the Star to Lucretia Borgia’s Intrigues”. The meeting will be at 9 in Piazza Garibaldi. A visit to the Auditorium della Stella and to the Roman Amphitheatre are included, as well as to the Ponte Sanguinario (Piazza della Vittoria) and to the church of San Ponziano. At the end of the Urban Trek, there will be a tasting of new oil in Largo Ferrer, offered by ConSpoleto. Information: tel. 0743 218620 – e-mail: front.iat@comunespoleto.gov.it
Reservation is encouraged: tel. 0743 218620.
Tuesday 31 at 16, at the Public Library in Palazzo Mauri, there will be the presentation of a series of 4 brochures on local products to be promoted among the users of the City of Spoleto public schools’ cafeterias and canteens, in the frame of the project “Ma che Bontà” (How tasty!), in collaboration with Consorzio ABN.
Wednesday 1 November there will be two appointments: Roman House, 11.00, are the place and time for “Cibus, vestes ludi: uses and costumes among the Romans”. How did ancient Romans live? What did they eat? What was their free-time like? Various aspects of their daily life will be taken into consideration in the visit to the Ist-century Roman House, with a particular attention to food.
Info and reservations, please call Sistema Museo 0743.46434
At 16 in Largo Ferrer there will be ULIVO ULIVELLO – Fairy tales, myths and short stories on oil and olive trees, featuring storyteller Mirko Revoyera. A tasting offered by Consorzio ConSpoleto will take place during the event.
On 28 (from 12.30) and 29 October (from 10.30), the Frantoio del Poggiolo – Monini (ss. Flaminia km. 129) will be open to visits and will offer a tasting of new oil.
Sunday 29 October at 15.00: live concert by Western Country Band at the frantoio.
Marconi Vintage returns on 28 and 29 October, 2017.
The most important news of the 2017 edition seems to be the Muscle Car exhibition of Saturday night.
Street food will be under the spotlights, as well as street market, photographic exhibits, tastings of local products and music performances.
Art exhibitions include a one-time display curated by architect Maria Emilia Ciannavei, by the Torti exhibiting space.
Sport and dance exhibitions will also be featured, all along the whole viale Marconi, among the many stands.
Each shop or bar in Viale Marconi will organize a show, ie dj sets, group dances, children shows or live music.
A CHAMPION’s HEART
Spoleto Soccer Stadium, 28 October at 15.30
Actors’ National Team vs Earthquaked Areas’ Selection
A charity match to support the reconstruction.
Some ninety famous actors volunteer themselves on the occasion of days dedicated to sport and solidarity, trying to give their contribution to noble causes and campaigns.
The Earthquaked Areas’ Selection features players trained by Amatrice mayor Pirozzi, a professional coach in his own right.
Revenues from the match will be used to support facing the emergencies in the seism-struck areas.
A charity dinner in favour of AVIS will follow, featuring the actors who played for the match.
Match ticket € 8,00
Dinner € 35,00
Dinner and match € 40,00
Pre-sale: Bar Catarinelli, piazza Garibaldi.
Sunday 29 October 2017
1st WALK AMONG OLIVE TREES
Walk along stretches of the cycle path Assisi-Spoleto-Norcia and the Olive Grove Path.
Organized by Città dell’Olio Association and Spoleto Municipality, in collaboration with the Spoleto Section of CAI – Italian Alpine Club and MTB Club Spoleto
The event, organized by Spoleto Municipality in collaboration with the Italian Alpine Club and MTB Club Spoleto, includes two itineraries, by foot and by bicycle, along stretches of the cycle path Assisi-Spoleto-Norcia and the Olive Grove Path.
We will walk along the “Giro dei Condotti” towards San Ponziano, San Salvatore (UNESCO World Heritage Site), then follow a stretch of the former Spoleto-Norcia railway, detour to the Casselle estate with tasting and illustration of the techniques of olive harvesting. Then we will return to Spoleto always along the former Spoleto-Norcia railway.
The bike itinerary will cover a stretch of the Spoleto-Assisi cycle path and then on dirt roads towards Campello, Bazzano, Poreta, Colle Marrozzo.
Information:
Travel time: 2h30m / 3h
Length of the trail: 9 km (by foot) 30 km (by bike)
Difficulty: Average
Meeting and departure point: Ponzianina parking
Departure time: h. 8:30
Reservation is required (by October 28th)
Info: info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Telephone: +39 0743 218 631 / 620 / 621
A day entirely dedicated to the harvesting of chestnuts and mushrooms, walking under the centuries-old plants. Experts of the Micological Group “Valle Spoletana” will be present. The participants will be offered bruschettas and sliced meats, and the chestnuts collected will be roasted.
Lunch will be held at La Luna Piena restaurant for € 20,00 each. Lunch will also take place in case of rain, going directly to La luna piena restaurant in Montebibico, at 13.00, where there will be mycologists who will talk about mushrooms. The chestnuts collected will be paid to the owner.
Participants will meet at 10.00 a. m. on Sunday, October 29th, at the street junction to Montebibico (S. S. Flaminia direction Terni, first junction on the right).
Cost of participation
Adults € 20,00
children under 10 years € 10,00 – child under 4 years free of charge
Information and Reservation:
Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Via Minervio, 2 – Spoleto
Ph. 331/8855493 – 349/3722424
e-mail prospoleto@gmail.com
Sunday 29 October at 17, by the Public Library in Palazzo Mauri, included in the schedule of Frantoi Aperti 2017:
Olive Trees, Trees of Peace, animated storytelling and workshops.
by and with Sabina Antonelli.
The event is also included in the project Nati per leggere (Italian for “Born to read”).
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As part of the XIV National Urban Trekking Day, whose theme will be Trekking amidst mysteries and legends, the city of Spoleto proposes an itinerary entitled
FROM THE LEGEND OF THE STAR TO LUCRETIA BORGIA’S INTRIGUES
Many legends populate Spoleto’s age-old history, related to local facts and characters. Among the most mysterious ones you certainly find the Miraculous Star, which originated one of the first orphanages on European soil, ruled by Augustinians Nuns. Following the nuns you will reach the church of St. Pontianus, with a first stop at the Roman Ponte Sanguinario, beheading place of Spoleto’s patron saint. The legend mentions it as the arrival point of an underground tunnel from the Rocca that was never found. The ancient fortress’ highest tower is also known as “the possessed one”; the remembering of charming Lucretia Borgia still lingers there; after coming to Spoleto aged 19, she was appointed city governor by her father, pope Alexander VI.
ITINERARY
Meeting is at Piazza Garibaldi (see technical file). Visit to the Auditorium della Stella and Roman Amphitheatre area. Visit to the Ponte Sanguinario (Piazza della Vittoria) – Through Via Cacciatori delle Alpi, Via Micheli and Via della Basilica you will reach the church of St. Ponziano – Return to Via delle Lettere, Via Ponzianina, Via delle Mura Ciclopiche (or the Ponzianina escalator), Piazza della Signoria, Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral), Via dell’Arringo, Via Saffi, Via del Ponte (Ponte delle Torri), Via Gattaponi and the rise to the Rocca (or via the elevator).
TECHNICAL FILE
Route information:
– time: 4 hours ca
– length: 3 km ca
– difficolty: average/low, rises can be avoided through the use of escalators/elevators
– where: Spoleto – Piazza Garibaldi, in front of Garibaldi’s monument
– when: meet at 8.45, start at 9.00
– Info: Comune di Spoleto – Tourist Office IAT – Via Brignone, 14 – tel. 0743 218620 – mail: info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Reservation is encouraged, please call 0743 218620
Official website: www.trekkingurbano.info
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From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
Day of Unification of Italy and of Armed Forces
San Ponziano, h 15.00
All Souls’ Day – mass celebrated by S.E. Mons. Renato Boccardo
Monumental Graveyard, h 15.45
A wreath of flowers will be placed in honour of those who fell in war
Thanks to: Archidiocesi Spoleto-Norcia, 1° RGT “Granatieri di Sardegna”/ 2° BTG Granatieri “Cengio”, Representatives of the Armed Forces, Italian Red Cross, Volunteers of the Protezione Civile, Banda Musicale “Città di Spoleto”.
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LECTURAE DANTIS 2017
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri
After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.
Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.
During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).
Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.
Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.
READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)
6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic
24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza
15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
The 23rd Convention on Mushrooms and Wild Herbs will take place on November 4th and 5th, 2017 at the Complex of San Nicolò. The event is organized by Pro Loco di Spoleto in collaboration with the Mycology Group “Valle Spoletana”.
The focus will be on the knowledge and use of mushrooms and wild herbs in cooking, medicine and cosmetics. Discussions on herbs and mushrooms, typical produce, exhibitions, traditional and non-traditional art shows and an open tavern for tastings will be among the highlights.
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Day of Unification of Italy and of Armed Forces
Piazza Garibaldi, h 11.00
– Flag-hoisting ceremony
– Honours by the 1 ° Reggimento ‘Granatieri di Sardegna’ I 2° Battaglione Granatieri ‘Cengio’
– Reading of the message by the Head of State and greetings by the Mayor of Spoleto
Colle Attivoli, h 11.15
– Deposition of a flowers wreath at the Monument to Fallen Soldiers
– Military honours by a picket in arms of the 1° Reggimento Granatieri di Sardegna / 2 Battaglione Cengio.
Thanks to: Archidiocesi Spoleto-Norcia, 1° RGT “Granatieri di Sardegna”/ 2° BTG Granatieri “Cengio”, Representatives of the Armed Forces, Italian Red Cross, Volunteers of the Protezione Civile, Banda Musicale “Città di Spoleto”.
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The series of theatre plays for families La Domenica dei Sogni returns again to promote love for theatre among the young. Conceived by Vincenzo Cerami in 2009, it offers children and their families cheerful Sunday afternoon theatre plays by nationwide-famous, award-winning, world-touring Italian companies.
Plays will all be staged at the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti” on Sundays at 16.30.
The seven plays on schedule will deal with themes including juvenile social disease, family relations and school. The series is conceived for various ages, from children in kindergarten to kids at the primary school.
Theatre mediation at Palazzo Mauri is also part of the project. The day before the play there will be a meeting at the Public Library at 11.00, led by teachers Lorella Natalizi and Mauro Pietrini of the Associazione Teodelapio.
The meetings will offer the occasion to highlight the themes of the plays, ie friendship, relations, differences, lack of self-confidence, lust for poetry.
Tickets
free under the age of 18
€ 6,00 (adults only)
subscriptions available
length: 60 min ca
Box Office
on the day of the play 15.45 – 16.30
INFO and RESERVATIONS
Comune di Spoleto – Direzione Sviluppo – Assessorato alla Cultura
Via Brignone, 11
Tel. 0743 218615 – 20 – 21
scuola.musicadanza@comunespoleto.gov.it | info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
PROGRAMME
Sunday 22 October, 2017 at 16.30
PERCHE’
Sunday 5 November, 2017 at 16.30
HO UN LUPO NELLA PANCIA
Sunday 17 December, 2017 at 16.30
NATALE A SUON DI HIP HOP
Sunday 21 January, 2018 at 16.30
HENSEL E GRETEL. LA STRADA NEL BOSCO
Sunday 18 February, 2018 at 16.30
SE IO FOSSI TE
Sunday 25 February, 2018 at 16.30
FUORI CLASSE
Sunday 4 March, 2018 at 16.30
TUTTO IN UNA BOLLA
From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
LECTURAE DANTIS 2017
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri
After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.
Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.
During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).
Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.
Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.
READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)
6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic
24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza
15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.
At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.
On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.
Future meetings:
Friday 10 November
SETTLING DYNAMICS IN PRE-ROMAN UMBRIA
Laura Bonomi Ponzi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Friday 24 November
THE MAID OF PLESTIA, HER FUNERARY OUTFIT AND THE FUNERARY RITUALS IN THE NECROPOLIS AT SERRAVALLE DI CHIENTI
Nicoletta Frapiccini – Polo Museale delle Marche, Director at Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche and Musei Archeologici Statali of Ascoli Piceno, Arcevia, Cingoli, Numana and Urbisaglia
Friday 1 December
THE SABINES: A PEOPLE OF ITALY AMONG MYTH, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. NEW LIGHTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT COLLE DEL FORNO
Enrico Benelli – Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico – CNR Rome
Friday 22 December
THE NECROPOLIS AT PIAZZA D’ARMI, NEW INTERPRETATIONS, RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS
Nicola Bruni – Associazione Astra
Joachim Weidig – Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Fabio Fazzini – Archaeologist
Friday 19 January
ROMAN ASSISI
Laura Manca – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Friday 9 February
THE ABBEY OF SASSOVIVO: ARISTOCRACIES AND RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LATE OSTEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Roberta Taddei, Lia Barelli, Maria Romana Picuti – Università La Sapienza, Rome
Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società
Friday 9 March
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE SPOLETO TEATRO NUOVO: THE LATE-ANCIENT BUILDING IN THE CITY’S URBAN FABRIC
Matelda Albanesi – Archaeologist
Moreno Orazi – Architect
Friday 23 March
CARSULAE: RESULTS OF THE LATEST EXCAVATION CAMPAIGNS
Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini – Associazione Astra
Friday 13 April
THE CHARIOT OF MONTELEONE DI SPOLETO
Francesco Roncalli – Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli
Friday 16 May
THE ANCIENT CITY OF GUBBIO: NEW DATA FOR ITS KNOWLEDGE
Luana Cenciaioli – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Musei Archeologici Nazionali di Perugia e Orvieto
Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto
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LIBRO D’ INGRESSO (Entrance Book) is a special event’s formula inaugurated last spring, in collaboration with the direction of Cinema Sala Pegasus and with the support of Spoleto’s Department of Culture. Its creators, V. Maticora and L. G. Santiago, present three new evenings of shows combined with three books.
The recipe is always the same: the entrance “ticket” is the book from which the performance of words, music and everything else is based.
The successful public participation of the previous edition encouraged organizers to repeat the experiment and involve even more subjects in the attempt to create a real creative workshop around the idea of “short literature”.
The performances will take place in November, on the stage of Sala Pegasus, with three different forms of staging.
On NOVEMBER 10 the series of events will be inaugurated by #SIneNOmine company, an art project involving the prison in Maiano. The company will present LA LETTERA U, with a performance taken from the work of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, scapigliato writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreters: Diletta Masetti and Roberto di Sibbio for
On NOVEMBER 16, Italian actor and dubber Pietro Biondi will bring on stage CREATURE NON PERVENUTE, an imaginary bestiary that collects stories of absurd and improbable living beings written by Luis Gabriel Santiago.
On NOVEMBER 23, AI PIEDI DELLA NOTTE, a collection of poetry and prose by Rutilio Clivi, will conclude the cycle of the Entrance Book. The show will be played by actors Cristina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini together with the singer Nyla van Ingen, who will perform the lieder composed by maestro Stefano Taglietti – also on stage – taken from the volume’s poems.
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From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
LIBRO D’ INGRESSO (Entrance Book) is a special event’s formula inaugurated last spring, in collaboration with the direction of Cinema Sala Pegasus and with the support of Spoleto’s Department of Culture. Its creators, V. Maticora and L. G. Santiago, present three new evenings of shows combined with three books.
The recipe is always the same: the entrance “ticket” is the book from which the performance of words, music and everything else is based.
The successful public participation of the previous edition encouraged organizers to repeat the experiment and involve even more subjects in the attempt to create a real creative workshop around the idea of “short literature”.
The performances will take place in November, on the stage of Sala Pegasus, with three different forms of staging.
On NOVEMBER 10 the series of events will be inaugurated by #SIneNOmine company, an art project involving the prison in Maiano. The company will present LA LETTERA U, with a performance taken from the work of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, scapigliato writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreters: Diletta Masetti and Roberto di Sibbio for
On NOVEMBER 16, Italian actor and dubber Pietro Biondi will bring on stage CREATURE NON PERVENUTE, an imaginary bestiary that collects stories of absurd and improbable living beings written by Luis Gabriel Santiago.
On NOVEMBER 23, AI PIEDI DELLA NOTTE, a collection of poetry and prose by Rutilio Clivi, will conclude the cycle of the Entrance Book. The show will be played by actors Cristina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini together with the singer Nyla van Ingen, who will perform the lieder composed by maestro Stefano Taglietti – also on stage – taken from the volume’s poems.
LECTURAE DANTIS 2017
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri
After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.
Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.
During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).
Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.
Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.
READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)
6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic
24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza
15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
Wednesday 22 November at 21.30, at the Sala Pegasus, film director Sandro Baldoni will introduce his documentary La botta grossa – Storie da dentro il terremoto.
It is the story of the 30 October 2016 earthquake that hit Central Italy with the strongest shock in 40 years. Baldoni was born and grew in the area of the Sibillini Mountains, devastated by the seismic event.
Starting from his own pulled-down house, and from his own mood, Baldoni travels across the deep fears, traumas, states of anxiety, rage and hopes of the people, in what is a travel from the interior. The meeting will be moderated by Roberto Lazzerini.
The evening will be opened by the short movie Mi vedrai correre (You’ll See Me Running) by independent film-makers ‘The Stairway Production‘ that aims at sending out a message to all those who suffered many a great loss, yet keep on struggling. The short movie was realized by film director Duccio Brunetti and features Riccardo Pompili, Nicolò Marchi, Alessandro Elisei, Diletta Masetti, Mirko Peruzzi, Nicolas Mari. It was selected for participation in the 2018 David di Donatello short movies competition.
Info and reservation: 339.4012680 / cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
La botta grossa – Storie da dentro il terremoto is a story made by those who were forced out of their homes, like its director himself. The story is the same that was told by the media, but it has a different tone that swerves away from the Breaking News. It faithfully talks of what happens in a year to those who lost almost everything. It teaches how to survive while waiting for the recovery. It is not only a matter of pain, loss or dismay; it also includes a flash of the will, of humanity and self-organization. There is no rhetoric, replaced by irony, the warmth of a pun, of a smile. “Stop surviving, start to live!” Let’s all shake up, after the shocks.
Thus Baldoni undertakes his road-movie among dismal roads, forced stayings by the sea in winter, jury-rigged schools, gyms turned to psychologist studios and stories told by the elders, or a hermit who does something that represents thousands. In La botta grossa you cry and you laugh, while rebuilding a sustainable Newmanity. A film that talks of some people somewhere, to all Italian citizens.
Presentation of the book ” Tu con me” by Roberta Salvati and Veronica Fermani, preface by Catena Fiorello.
LIBRO D’ INGRESSO (Entrance Book) is a special event’s formula inaugurated last spring, in collaboration with the direction of Cinema Sala Pegasus and with the support of Spoleto’s Department of Culture. Its creators, V. Maticora and L. G. Santiago, present three new evenings of shows combined with three books.
The recipe is always the same: the entrance “ticket” is the book from which the performance of words, music and everything else is based.
The successful public participation of the previous edition encouraged organizers to repeat the experiment and involve even more subjects in the attempt to create a real creative workshop around the idea of “short literature”.
The performances will take place in November, on the stage of Sala Pegasus, with three different forms of staging.
On NOVEMBER 10 the series of events will be inaugurated by #SIneNOmine company, an art project involving the prison in Maiano. The company will present LA LETTERA U, with a performance taken from the work of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, scapigliato writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreters: Diletta Masetti and Roberto di Sibbio for
On NOVEMBER 16, Italian actor and dubber Pietro Biondi will bring on stage CREATURE NON PERVENUTE, an imaginary bestiary that collects stories of absurd and improbable living beings written by Luis Gabriel Santiago.
On NOVEMBER 23, AI PIEDI DELLA NOTTE, a collection of poetry and prose by Rutilio Clivi, will conclude the cycle of the Entrance Book. The show will be played by actors Cristina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini together with the singer Nyla van Ingen, who will perform the lieder composed by maestro Stefano Taglietti – also on stage – taken from the volume’s poems.
LECTURAE DANTIS 2017
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri
After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.
Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.
During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).
Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.
Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.
READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)
6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna
27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic
24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society
1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza
15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society
21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society