Hundreds of online events for Dantedì. Here's what they are and how to find them

There are hundreds of events with which cultural institutions throughout Italy are celebrating the second edition of Dantedì, the day dedicated to Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1265 - Ravenna, 1321), whose 700th anniversary of his death falls this year: Dantedì is celebrated on March 25 because that would be the date on which the journey to the afterlife of the Divine Comedy begins (the first canto of the Inferno is in fact set on the night of March 24-25, 1300, the year in which Dante was thirty-five years of age).

So many initiatives with which museums, libraries, theaters, archives and institutes throughout Italy, many of them under the direction of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, have decided to celebrate the event. “We are just in the second year of Dantedì,” said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, “and we are already seeing a huge growth in initiatives, despite the difficult moment we are going through. There are hundreds of events all over Italy in museums, theaters, libraries and archives. Most of them are streaming, but they give the exact proof of what has happened in a short time around Dantedì, with the mobilization and involvement of all institutional levels, of so many cultural associations. This gives us a sense of what will happen in the coming years, when we come out of this terrible epidemic: the Dantedì will become a stable and important piece of Italy’s history. After decades in which it will be celebrated we will remember these first editions, held during the pandemic, but which got it off the ground with such determination.”

The events and how to see them

The MiC has activated a dedicated page where it lists, divided by region, all the events in remote mode: webinars, digital exhibitions, videos, live streaming, live on YouTube with readings, seminars, performances, exhibitions of archival documents, Dante’s codices and manuscripts, and virtual tours. Among the most active are the Archival Superintendencies and State Archives, to date mobilized with more than fifty events, often focused on the rich and valuable documentation preserved (“Archival Institutes,” said MiC Archives Director General Anna Maria Buzzi, “custodians of the memory of communities and of the entire country, thanks to the richness and variety of the heritage preserved, have the opportunity to tell Dante’s story through the direct and indirect traces of his life and travels that, as a man deeply immersed in the social and political life of his time, he left in our Archives.”) But state and municipal libraries, museums, archaeological parks and even foreign embassies and cultural institutions present in Italy will also participate in the second edition of this day, which, as mentioned, this year falls on the anniversary of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante’s death.

Hundreds of online events for Dantedì. Here's what they are and how to find them

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