CSB in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Dantes journey and Bhagavad-Gita

Psychological Experience of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise
for the contemporary man

Saturday, 26 September in the 500 and 200 centuries rooms of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and Bhagavad-Gita from the Indian tradition, compared by Marco Ferrini, have inspired and charmed about six hundred people from all over Italy.
The Historical-Artistic context has hosted the event superbly. The battle scenes of Vasaris paintings, the Genio della Vittoria of Michelangelo and the statues of Vincenzo De Rossi which represent the Fatiche di Ercole seemed to evocate the crucial moments of the existential journey of Dante in the Divine Comedy and Arjuna in Bhagavad-Gita. The anguishing crisis that they both live, which seems to them worse than death, takes them through a hard battle (la guerra sì del cammino e sì de la pietade) from which they both come out victorious.
At first, Marco Ferrini, drew a cultural and social-historical-political contextualization of both works. He described the peculiar traits of the medieval civilization of Dantes times and of the ancient Hindu-Vedic tradition with reference to their respective sources. Ferrini offered a widespread cultural prospective through a stimulating comparison-dialogue between East and West, tracing the connections between cultures that are only apparently far from each other: the great Greek and Classic Latin works, the ancient Vedic Rishi, the alchemic medieval tradition and the Dolce Stil Novo, the Islamic literature and the mystical sufi, Christianity and the tradition of the Vaishnava Bhakti.
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