A video installation on the palace where Leopardi died. Naples celebrates the poet's anniversary

On the occasion of theanniversary of Giacomo Leopardi’sdeath, Naples offers a large public projection on the facade of the building in vico Pero, where the famous poet from Recanati spent the last two years of his existence and where he died.

Starting at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 15, at Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi - corner of Via Stella, the video installation Voi siete qui / vico Pero / Giacomo Leopardi / Inhabiting Artist Project created by artist Eugenio Giliberti and dedicated to both Naples and the great poet will be visible to all.

The project has the support of the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library, which holds all of Leopardi’s work: manuscripts, autographs, documents and texts, left by testamentary bequest to the Library by the poet’s Neapolitan friend Antonio Ranieri, who lived with him in the house in vico Pero.

In the darkness will appear on the facade of the building, in slow progression, the light projection of the manuscript I nuovi credenti, a satirical and “toponymic” song composed by Leopardi during his stay in the Neapolitan mansion.

The manuscript of The New Believers is kept at the National Library in Naples, which has granted permission for its publication. The handwriting is in the hand of Antonio Ranieri who drafted what Leopardi, already seriously ill dictated. Ranieri’s erasures are visible on the manuscript, and he repeatedly crossed out the title. The text was first published in Scritti vari only in 1906, because, according to Ranieri, Leopardi himself agreed to exclude it from the 1845 edition of the Canti. It is a satirical poem in terza rima in which the poet scorns the “new believers,” that is, the exponents of Neapolitan spiritualism, Catholics by convenience and foolishly optimistic. Most likely Leopardi is referring to the authors gathered around the magazine Il Progresso.

Eugenio Giliberti’s installation virtually anticipates the physical realization of the large wall painting that will transform the palace in vico Pero, after restoration of the facades, into a site of important historical and cultural evidence of the place where Giacomo Leopardi ended up disappeared on June 14, 1837.

The screening will be preceded on the anniversary of Leopardi’s death, Monday, June 14 at 6 p.m., at Villa delle Ginestre, by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Ente Ville Vesuviane and the National Center for Leopardi Studies in Recanati.

A video installation on the palace where Leopardi died. Naples celebrates the poet's anniversary

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