Teatro Palladium, Piazza B.Romano , 8 – Rome
14 October, 2020, 8.30 PM

Lucretius and Seneca: necessary authors not only because they marked the history of European thought, but above all because they are symbols of two rival conceptions of the world. Antagonists on everything: choosing politics or anti-politics? To remain alone on the shore to observe the storms of life, or to go aboard without caring about traveling companions? Adopt the laws of the cosmos or the laws of the self? Faced with God and death, believe or understand? No matter what answers they gave, their allergy to one thought does matter. To respect and reflect their “diversity”, “drama” and “permanence”, it seemed natural to the Latinist Ivano Dionigi to make them meet in the close and lively form of the dialogue (dia-logo), where the word and the reason (logos) of one intersect and they cross (dia-) the word and reason of the other. Every time you stand up for one, the doubt assails that the reason lies with the other: because both have written about us and for us. Icons of the bigamy of our thought and our soul. The classics are born posthumously. Alessandro Cipriani’s music is inspired by the two different conceptions of nature in Seneca and Lucretius, one as a vision of the possible transformation from one element to another, the other of an atomistic type. Both visions evoke techniques for processing the sound of wind and string instruments played by Gianni Trovalusci and Roberto Bellatalla.