Ravenna for Dante / Dantesque September
The celebrations of the city in honor of the Supreme Poet
Date: 4 September - 6 October 2012

PROGRAMME

• 691° The anniversary of the death of Dante
Date: 9 September 2012

Every year the second Sunday in September is dedicated to solemn celebrations in honor of the Supreme Poet.

• Dante 2021
Classense Library (Sala Muratori/Manica Lunga), Franciscan cloisters, Piazza del Popolo
Date: 5 - 8 September 2012

The September Dantesque has been enriched by the last year of a new large cultural manifestation, named Dante 2021, desired and promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, in collaboration, and the Scientific Director of the Accademia della Crusca.
Dante 2021 is a longstanding festival in three days, designed as preparation for celebrations planned for 2020-2021 for the seventh centenary of the death of the great poet.
The event will take place between 6 and 8 September (pre-opening Wednesday 5 September) Inaugurated with two exhibitions: "Italics landscapes in the Divine Comedy", with 50 photos by Vittorio Alinari (1921) at the Classense Library and "Dante illustrated. Landscapes for the Divine Comedy", photos of Giuseppe Cremoncini for Corrado Ricci (1898) at the Franciscan Cloisters.

In the three afternoon meetings in the ancient Franciscan Cloisters, the eminent scholars will open their "forges", showing to the public themes, motives, meanings of their work about Dante and, at the same time, they indicate, the overall value.
We point out a show with Moni Ovadia and Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua dedicated to Immanuel Romano, intellectual Jewish contemporary of Dante, and his friend. Also Immanuel Romano imagined a trip to the afterlife (7 September at 9.00pm in Piazza del Popolo).
It will also be inaugurated on 6 September at 17.30 at the Franciscan Cloisters, the series "Dante's conversations 2021": the first volume collects the speeches of the meeting of the 2011 edition.

• O Muse or m’aiutate
The puppet House, National Museum of Ravenna, NatuRa Museum, Planetary, TAMO - All adventure of mosaic
Date: 12 September - 6 October 2012

O Muse or m’aiutate (Inferno II, 7) is a project promoted within the September Dantesque 2012. The aim is to establish communication between museums of Ravenna using the figure of Dante and his work through a rich programme of events.

The protagonists are manifold. The NatuRa Museum with its scientific vocation offers educational itineraries dedicated to bird symbolism in the Commedia; the Planetarium arranges workshops dedicate to Medieval cosmology and a foray into contemporary music production dedicated to Dante's heaven; The Puppet House organizes workshops and readings inspired by the theme of mischief; the National Museum delves into the iconography of Paradise; finally, Tamo - Permanent exposition devoted to the history of mosaic – presents his exhibition of contemporary mosaics dedicate to Dante and promotes the exhibition Histriodanza off inspired by the themes of iron and fire of hell.
Thanks to the help of volunteer readers of Nati per Leggere are organized readings for children.

• Classensi readings. Dante and the Italian language
Sala Muratori Classense Library
Date: 6, 27 October 2012; 10, 17 November
Event timetable: 5.30pm

The short course of lectures devoted to the general theme Dante, the language and the Italian language is curated by Mirko Tavoni, author of the latest commentary on the De vulgari eloquentia.
Tavoni will introduce the cycle illustrating the relationship between Latin and vernacular Dante's work and his thoughts.
Lorenzo Tomasin, author of an essay on the concept of "Italian", will focus on the idea of "italian language" of Dante at a time when there were only vulgar municipal and regional.
The last two readings will explore two sectors in which Dante has left a deep mark in the history of the Italian language: Claudio Giunta, commentator of Dante's Rime, will talk about the deep structural changes and rhetorical introduced by Dante in the language of poetry; Rita Librandi, specialist of "science in the vernacular" in the early centuries, will show the impact of Comedy on the formation of the Italian scientific lexicon.

• Dante man of faith
Franciscan cloisters, Basilica of San Francesco
Date: 4 - 5; 13 September 2012

Il Dantesque Center of dei Friars Minor promote events in tribute to Dante on the occasion of the opening of the year of the faith (11 October 2012 - 24 November 2013), established by Pope Benedict XVI. A reading of the XIII° Canto of Purgatorio will be on 4 September. On September 5 the Museum of Dantesque Centre reopens with a new path that retraces the journey of Dante in the Underworld: from hell to the contemplation of God. The 13 September is celebrated the traditional Dantis Poetae transitus. Mons. Marco Frisina will present Dante as a "man of faith".

• The Divine Comedy in the world. XVIII Review of International conversations and readings
Curated by Walter Della Monica; hosted by Alessandro Gentili
Basilica of San Francesco
Dante's grave
Date: 14 September - 6 October 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm

After reading of the Divine Comedy, commentary and read by Vittorio Sermonti from 1995 to 1997, from 1998 the readings of International Review about the Divine Comedy in the world will be again at the Basilica of San Francesco. The aim is to know where, when, how it was translated, studied and disseminated Dante's poem. 

EXHIBITION
• Italics landscapes in the Divine Comedy
Classense Library/Manica Lunga
Via Baccarini, 3/A Ravenna
Date: 6 September - 6 October 2012
Event timetable: from monday to sunday 10.00am - 6.00pm

In 1921, the brilliant photographer and organizer editorial Vittorio Alinari, published a volume dedicated to the "Italics landscapes in the Divine Comedy". In 78 photographs, minimally requests to other contemporary photographers, is squadernava Italy represented or evoked by Dante in the Divine Comedy: from Florence to Ravenna, via Lake Garda and Mount Etna, Mantua and Campaldino, Cattolica and Val di Magra, the castle of da Polenta and the ruins of Albalonga ...For the first time, 50 of those photographs, taken from the Alinari Archives, are now on display to the public of Classense library that, through these images, can retrace the journey, and real imagined, of Dante and Vittorio Alinari. The scenery, captured at the beginning of the twentieth century, are interpreted by the late photographer with color effects and painting, with an eye to contextualize the ancient story of Dante.

• Dante illustrated. Landscapes for the Divine Comedy
Franciscan cloisters
Via Dante Alighieri, 4/6 Ravenna
Date: 6 September - 6 October 2012
Event timetable: everyday 10.00am - 6.00pm

The exhibition presents the photographs taken for the edition "The Divine Comedy Illustrated", edited by Corrado Ricci in 1898. The photographs taken at the end of the 800 by Giuseppe Cremoncini portray the ancient Dantesque places. Through evocative period images show the landscape, whose realistic description is transformed into the highest visions.
The exhibition, curated by Marilena Tamassia, comes from the Photographic Department of the Uffizi, the same Corrado Ricci established in 1904.

• "Ne la pittura tener lo campo" 2
10 European artists for Dante Alighieri
Franciscan cloisters
Via Dante Alighieri, 4/6 Ravenna
Date: 6 - 9 September 2012
Event timetable: everyday 10.00am - 6.00pm