(Adnkronos) - Il regista della miniserie evento Rai racconta la sua visione del poeta di Recanati, 'il suo un pensiero trasversale, non può essere etichettato politicamente'
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00:00I wanted to ask, what pushed you to tell the story of Leopardi
00:04and what do you think Leopardi can say to today's audience, especially young people?
00:08It pushed me, let's say, to have discovered a Leopardi completely different from what I had known on the school benches.
00:15To have discovered that Leopardi, let's say, was not only the sad, melancholic poet,
00:21but that in reality he was also a seer who was able to imagine
00:27what the future would be.
00:31And it struck me to discover that Leopardi was also very ironic.
00:35It struck me to discover, for example, the moral operas, which we do not study, which are less known,
00:40which are also the work to which Leopardi has dedicated a large part of his life,
00:44for which Leopardi has fought hard.
00:47And then we wanted, in some way, to tell the thought of Leopardi, his modernity.
00:51So we made a Leopardi without a hump,
00:53which is like making a Christmas cave without the ox and the donkey, let's say.
00:57And yet, let's say, more than the body of Leopardi, he was going to tell the thought,
01:01his thought, the impartiality of his thought and also the delicacy of his thought.
01:06What can he tell young people?
01:08He can tell young people precisely this, also, how to say, his extreme freedom.
01:15And then he also thinks of his most famous poetry.
01:20He can tell that often we may not be able to access all the happiness we would like,
01:25but with the strength of thought we can go beyond that thorn and also access infinity.
01:31I think this is a beautiful gift that we can all carry in our hearts.
01:36And it is especially useful for young people who often discover that life does not give you everything you want.
01:41Leonardo, you, instead, interpreting Leopardi, what did you discover about him that you did not know?
01:49Well, let's say that most of what Sergio said, which is a bit the idea of this Leopardi,
01:55was a whole portion of his thought to which I was not always focused.
02:01The first time Sergio told me about this project, he told me, do you like Leopardi?
02:05I said, I love Giacomo Leopardi, I love his poems.
02:08He told me, but do you also know the philosopher?
02:10I said, I did not know philosophy.
02:12And there is a whole thought, which is already infinity,
02:15which is a truly philosophical poetry that he wrote,
02:17which in one go he deepened the moral operettas,
02:20also another thing that, as we said before, is not studied so much,
02:23and in reality he has committed himself to it a lot,
02:25and they are truly ironic and profound stories that he wrote,
02:29which were very dear to him.
02:31So I discovered a lot, a lot, a lot about him.
02:34Giussi, what did you think when you read the screenplay
02:37and how did your character influence Leopardi's life according to the story?
02:44Well, I thought that Fanny, as it was told by the screenwriters,
02:49Carlo Cavalluzzi, Pasquini and Sergio himself,
02:53because he was also the author of my series,
02:56told a woman, yes, from the 1800s,
03:00a woman, an image, yes, that I partly knew,
03:04but also a very modern woman,
03:06because many aspects of the feminine are told.
03:09We see a sweet Fanny with her own daughters,
03:13and in fact Leopardi remembers in his poem Spasia
03:16this foggy neck where the girls clung to each other,
03:20but at the same time we also see an undisputed Fanny,
03:23a nostalgic Fanny.
03:25The nostalgia for Fanny was also something that immediately captured me,
03:31kidnapped me.
03:33So these shades of such a complex character
03:38were the things that immediately attracted me.
03:42It's a classic, and classics are transversal at any time,
03:45it's eternal, then poetry is eternal,
03:48and so, let's say, Leopardi will always be there,
03:51we will no longer be there, but Leopardi will continue to be there,
03:54because there will continue to be a transversal thought at any time,
03:58at any layer of society, at any political faction.
04:04Leopardi has always been taken a little by the jacket,
04:06someone said he's on the right, someone else said he's on the left,
04:09someone said, no, but then at the end of his life he converted,
04:12everyone took him by the jacket because he's not labeled,
04:15and so he's not part of a time, he's part of the time.