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Giovanni Alighieri del fu Dante a theatrical performance by Associazione Culturale Xenia with Massimo Popolizio

Giovanni Alighieri del fu Dante
a theatrical performance by
Associazione Culturale Xenia with Massimo Popolizio

Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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On the occasion of Dantedì 2021, we are delighted to present the theatrical performance “Giovanni Alighieri del fu Dante”, by Associazione Culturale Xenia with Massimo Popolizio. Produced in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, within the 2020 ministerial fund “Vivere all’Italiana sul Palcoscenico,” in support of the Italian cultural industries so dramatically hit by the pandemic.

In Italian with English subtitles.

The scholar, protagonist of the show, played by Massimo Popolizio, reconstructs Dante’s son – Giovanni – biographical profile and the history of the Alighieri family, but above all Dante’s work and the possible relationship between such an illustrious father and a son with an unfulfilled identity.

Giovanni’s biography lies in the very few words of two notarial documents from 1308 and 1314, which have emerged from the archives in the last hundred years of Dante studies. We do not know anything else about him. Giovanni is therefore still a slender man “on paper”, son of the twentieth century.

Click here to view the theatrical performance.

  • Organizzato da: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
  • In collaborazione con: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs