Performance & Participation

Poetry of 15th century Italy;

Dante: “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita...”,
Laura Pasetti and Clare Waddington - Charioteer Theatre

Sat. 24 July, 19:00-21:00   Reading from Dante Alighieri “La Divina Commedia”

The reading will be in Italian and English from Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. The journey of Dante accompanied by Virgilio in search of deep understanding of the meaning of Life and Death.La Divina Commedia is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

Cost: £12.50

Renaissance Theatre:

Poems by Michelangelo, Ariosto and Petrarca
Lynn Dalgetty and Danielle Farrow - Charioteer Theatre

Sat. 21 Aug., 19:30 - 21:00

It is well known that Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. Less known is that he was also an imaginative poet of huge sensitivity. His description  of the human body can be described as pure passion caged in rhymes.
Ludovico Ariosto is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso. “The two persistent qualities of Ariosto's language are first, serenity and second, brilliance, the Mediterranean glitter and sheen which neither dazzle nor obscure but confer on every object its precise outline and glinting surface. (Thomas Greene)
The literature and poetry of the Renaissance was largely influenced by the developing science and philosophy. The humanist Francesco Petrarca is a key figure of the renewed sense of scholarship.

Cost: £10.00

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