(October 5, 2016) Dante Alighieri is a poet accessible to everyone and represents what it means to be Italian today. This is the message launched by the Società Dante Alighieri and Tv2000 to some of the most influential scholars of the great poet, invited to discuss on the theme “Communicating Dante. Research, literature, media “. To do the honors, Andrea Riccardi, president of Società Dante Alighieri, who brought together experts and students in the Rome headquarters: “Dante is not just for specialists and can not be closed in libraries – said Riccardi – and yet he is complicated and the aesthetic pleasure of reading a poet seems to come into crisis in front of him, because of the difficulty to understand “. But in a world where everything seems so clear and simple, “so that sometimes is disappointing,” said the president of the Società Dante Alighieri, the beauty of the Supreme Poet “lies in the hard work we must do to enter his world.” A great poet of another age, that in a hectic and chaotic world like ours, is there with its sometimes enigmatic complexity. So “Communicating Dante” becomes “bold endeavor – defines Riccardi – that allows us to get in touch with one of the most fascinating minds in history. A comparison with another world that makes us understand our “. In fact even today, “in the middle of the journey of our life”, many times we will ever meet again “within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” “It is certainly not that of Dante – said Riccardi – but are we in a dark forest in our global world, in which we are sick of indifference and where everything is so clear that we do not understand anything and we do not get passionate about anything.” It is in this context that fits the mission of the Dante Alighieri Society, which is to “teach to read the world in Italian – said its president -. We do not want to lose our language, we want to teach it in the world knowing that this mission means continuing our history and our civilization. ” Among the reports of the scholars who have tried to “Communicate Dante”, also that of Mirko Tavoni, professor at the University of Pisa and president of the ICON Consortium – Italian Culture on the Net. His speech entitled “Dante Dreamer”, was focused on the relationship of the great poet with his personal and private life dream, and how this will become an ingredient of his poetry. “Dante was a great dreamer – explained Tavoni – and dream for him was an important part of his emotional and intellectual life, he had a rich dream life and a great awareness of the dimension of dreams and dream mechanisms. Several passages of his works bear to suspect that Dante was a lucid dreamer, that he was aware of dreaming while dreaming “. Dante entertained “an open dialogue with his dreams – said the professor to the students present – convinced that dreams bring messages that alert mind is interested in interpreting. Dante believes that dreaming is a form of thought, a thinking in a dream, between thinking alert and thinking in a dream there is continuity. ” (Sip)
