Naples – The Neapolitan language meets Dante Alighieri in the penultimate event of the "Dialect Encounters" series, organized by the Campania dei Festival Foundation—directed by Ruggero Cappuccio and chaired by Alessandro Barbano—and promoted by the Scientific Committee for the Safeguarding of Neapolitan Linguistic Heritage established by the Campania Region.
Hell in Neapolitan: Matilde Pierro Donnarumma's lesson
On Monday 12 May, at 16 pm, in the Sala Comencini of Musap (Palazzo Zapata, Piazza Trieste e Trento), the actor Enzo Salomone will interpret passages from Dante's Inferno in the translation – or rather, “rewriting” – by Matilde Pierro Donnarumma, an author who published the verses in instalments on newsstands starting in 1965, before collecting them in a volume.
His Purgatory in Neapolitan has also recently been published. A family tradition: his great-grandfather Luigi Pierro, publisher and bookseller, animated a cultural circle frequented, among others, by Benedetto Croce.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Basile, Cortese and the Dialect Canon
At 17 pm, focus on “Dialect in great literature: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, with speeches by Nicola De Blasi, Salvatore Iacolare, Nunzio Ruggiero and Carolina Stromboli. The birth of the Neapolitan literary tradition will be retraced, with Giulio Cesare Cortese and Giambattista Basile (author of Cunto de li cunti), to arrive at the dialect translations of the classics and the work of the publisher Giuseppe Maria Porcelli, curator of the Collection on poems in the Neapolitan language.
Information and programme
The meetings, with free admission, will continue until May 19. The complete program is available on the website fondazionecampaniadeifestival.it.
An opportunity to discover how Neapolitan, from a popular language, became an instrument of high literature – from Dante to the Baroque classics.
In short
Naples – The Neapolitan language meets Dante Alighieri in the penultimate event of the "Dialect Encounters" series, organized by the Campania Festival Foundation—directed by Ruggero Cappuccio and chaired by Alessandro…
- Hell in Neapolitan: Matilde Pierro Donnarumma's lesson Monday, May 12, at 16 p.m., in the Sala Comencini of Musap (Palazzo…
- His Purgatory has also recently been published in Neapolitan.
- A family tradition: great-grandfather Luigi Pierro, a publisher and bookseller, hosted a cultural gathering frequented, among others, by…
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Naples – The Neapolitan language meets Dante Alighieri in the penultimate event of the "Dialect Encounters" series, organized by the Campania Festival Foundation – directed by Ruggero Cappuccio…
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Hell in Neapolitan: Matilde Pierro Donnarumma's lesson Monday, May 12, at 16 p.m., in the Sala Comencini of Musap (Palazzo…
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His Purgatory has also recently been published in Neapolitan.
The events on Neapolitan dialect seem interesting and engaging. The translation of Dante into Neapolitan is an initiative that can bring many closer to the culture. We hope that other similar events will be organized in the future.