Alessandro Barbero - (Speciale) Dante, Alighieri Durante

[Music] [Music] welcome today we have the ambition to take you back in time of seven centuries and the even greater ambition to tell you the life of the man who is universally recognized as the father of Italian literature and not only as the author of a masterpiece that even today after so much time you have

studied thoroughly discussed in universities around the world and which is a source of inspiration for artists musicians actors today we tell you the life of Dante Alighieri or rather of Durante degli Alighieri called Dante [Music] to tell the life of Dante obviously you need information and that information can only come from his

mouth he says never full of books that tell the life of Dante yes but all are based on the information that his contemporaries have transmitted to us what they have not told us we do not know and will never know are what we historians call in jargon sources a source and anything that has been transmitted from the

era we want to reconstruct even objects are sources a gold florin or a tower of Florence are sources of course but it is clear that to reconstruct the life of Dante's most important sources are the written ones, there are many types, there are documents preserved in the archives, 1 calls the notary to draw up a

marriage contract or there is the minutes of a council in which Dante stood up to speak, then there are the chronicles and what happens when a person of the time in the tranquility of his study starts writing to pass on to posterity, that is, to us, his memory and his interpretation of the

things that happened in his time, and then there are the lives of Dante, the first ones, I mean, because his contemporaries had already understood very well that they had known an exceptional man who would continue to arouse interest over the centuries and therefore they started writing his account, so we have a collection of