DANTE ALIGHIERI

Dante Alighieri: the Supreme Poet

Allor si mosse ed io li tenni retro…. walking with Dante. Immersive lessons for school groups or passionate advanced students. For interested groups, we offer packages including language course, activities, excursions and trips, transports, accommodations...

Tiberius International offers the opportunity to attend an exciting lessons cycle on Dante Alighieri: the father of the Italian language. The students will be able to deepen his life, poetic works, and the birth of the Italian language from the ancient Romans Latin to the medieval vulgar.

Through interactive and engaging lessons the student will be able to relive the story of Dante. The Tiberius school provides guided tours, trips, and excursions in “Dante’s places”: such as Ravenna, the ancient capital of the Western Roman Empire, where are located the remains of the Divine Comedy’s author or Gradara’s castle, the place of the love story between Paolo and Francesca from Rimini. For interested groups, our school offers packages including language course, activities, excursions and trips, transports, accommodations…

The lessons cycle includes the following program: 

Who is Dante Alighieri?
His life, the meeting and the untimely death of Beatrice, the political misfortune and exile from Florence, and the expectation of a renovation of political and social.

La Divina Commedia
Introduction to Divina Commedia and in-depth analysis of Canto I of Hell.

Insights on poetic production
Reading and commentary of the following songs:
Hell: V. , XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXXIV
Purgatory: V, XIV
Paradise: XVII, XXXIII

Gradara and Fiorenzuola di Focara:

The history of the Gradara Castle owes its fortune to the enviable position that makes it, since ancient times, a crossroads of traffic and people. Straddling between Marche and Romagna, it stands between a hill overlooking the Adriatic Sea and Marche’s valleys. During the Middle Ages, the fortress is one of the main theatres of the clashes between the Papacy and the Houses Marche and Romagna.

The Castle of San Leo:

The impregnable stronghold quoted by Dante in IV Canto of the Purgatory, hosts and collects various exhibitions related to its great and significant history: from the collection of weapons dating back to 1500 to those of the First and Second World Wars; from the instruments of torture to the replica of the fresco of Vasari which represents the taking of San Leo by the Medici family up to exhibitions of contemporary works. The Fortress of San Leo is mainly linked to the life of the famous magician and alchemist Giuseppe Balsamo, Count of Cagliostro, a mysterious and enigmatic “guest” of his prisons.

Ravenna: Dante’s last refuge

The city preserves the remains of Dante Alighieri and keeps his memory alive with important public manifestations. Ravenna is a city full of art and culture. It is the city of mosaics, an ancient city, elected capital three times: of the Western Roman Empire first, of the Gothic Kingdom under Theodoric then, and last of the Byzantine Empire in Europe. The magnificence of that period has left a great legacy of monuments: eight buildings have been declared Unesco World Heritage Site.

COURSE PRICES

The course is available all year round and it can be customized according to the group's needs.
Prices vary according to the number of participants, the total days of lessons, and chosen activities.

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