Dantedì, Benigni will read the Divine Comedy at the Quirinale live on Rai. Franceschini: "Symbolic event."

On the occasion of Dantedì, a national day established last year to celebrate Dante Alighieri in Italy and around the world, which is held every year on March 25, Roberto Benigni will read the Divine Comedy at the Quirinale in the presence of President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.

This was announced by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini during the presentation of the initiatives that will take place for the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet. "It will be a very symbolic event: a reading of a canto from the Divine Comedy by Roberto Benigni at the Quirinale in the presence of the president of the Republic broadcast live on Rai,“ the minister said. And it is symbolic, he continued, that ”this event takes place in a symbolic place, the most important and most representative of the State and the Italian Republic, in front of the President."

Prime Minister Mario Draghi will also be present to listen to the reading of a canto from the Comedy.

"The Dantedì was established in 2020 and will last forever, as Dante’s fame and notoriety will last forever,“ Franceschini reiterates. ”This year’s Dantedì is particularly important because it coincides with the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet, and for this reason there are so many events planned throughout Italy, with a flourishing of spontaneous initiatives that it is impossible to census, and which are in addition to those selected by the Dante 2021 National Committee chaired by Professor Carlo Ossola."

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Dantedì, Benigni will read the Divine Comedy at the Quirinale live on Rai. Franceschini: "Symbolic event."

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