(Adnkronos) - Pupi Avati riceve la Laurea Honoris Causa dall’Università Roma Tre: un traguardo che corona il lungo viaggio del regista nella storia e nell’anima di Dante Alighieri. Con un’emozione profonda e un pizzico di nostalgia, Avati ha accolto questo riconoscimento, tributo al suo intenso lavoro di studio e promozione della figura del sommo poeta. La cerimonia si è svolta con i saluti del Rettore Massimiliano Fiorucci e gli interventi dei docenti Maurizio Fiorilla e Anna Pegoretti. Avati ha poi presentato la sua lectio magistralis intitolata “Dante”, esplorando la sua affascinante relazione con l'autore della Divina Commedia, frutto di oltre vent’anni di ricerca.
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00:00Pupi Avati receives the Honoris Causa degree from the University of Rome III, a milestone that crowns the director's long journey in the history and soul of Dante Alighieri.
00:13With a deep emotion and a pinch of nostalgia, Avati received this recognition as a tribute to his intense work of study and promotion of the figure of the great poet.
00:22The ceremony was held with the greetings of the rector, Massimiliano Fiorucci, and the interventions of the teachers Maurizio Fiorilla and Anna Pegoretti.
00:29Avati then presented his Lectio Magistralis, entitled Dante, exploring his fascinating relationship with the author of the Divine Comedy as a result of more than 20 years of research.
00:40Today his art is celebrated, but the degree conferred to him by the Honoris Causa in Italian Studies for his work on Dante, which he investigated with particular skills as he knows how to do, so it seemed important to us to celebrate his art and offer this contribution also to our community.
01:04Avati challenged the limits of cinema and literature, exploring every fragment of Dantean life and thought to return it to the general public through works such as the film Dante and the novel L'Alta Fantasia and the voyage of Boccaccio to the discovery of Dante,
01:18examples of his unique ability to revive the Middle Ages with historical rigor and narrative sensitivity.
01:25Dante was born from what I will say to motivate this degree, that is, from my medieval interests, especially from this peasant culture that for war reasons,
01:38I was born in 1938, so we were deported as children in the countryside, so the imprinting is that of the peasant culture that is as close as possible to the Middle Ages,
01:51that is, there is less difference between the vision of the world of my aunts, of my grandmothers, of my cousins of Sasso Marconi of the 1940s than there is now.
02:04The world has changed a lot, especially after 1968, there has been a mutation, a speeding up of all those who were also a classification of values,
02:20it was of the peasant culture in which I grew up and from which it is also difficult and I do not want to give up because they are my roots.
02:35The University of Rome 3 celebrates this tireless work that brings Dante back to contemporary life and values Italian culture as an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
02:45The event has seen the participation of illustrious guests, including the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini,
02:51and the advisor to the culture of Rome, Massimiliano Smeriglio, and numerous friends and admirers of the director.
02:57The contribution of Avati is inserted in a long Dantean tradition of the Athenaeum, which from its foundation has placed Dante at the center of its cultural and academic offer.