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From the Stage to Reality
February 19, 2026
Beauty that saves
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Tragedy, adolescence and vocation

With Prof. Franco Nembrini, we discuss the power of words and beauty in the construction of the self, of tragedy as an experience of revelation and truth, and personal vocation as a response to the fragility of the world.

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Franco Nembrini is a professor, essayist and educator. He has taught Literature for 40 years and founded a private school in the province of Bergamo that now has more than 1,000 pupils. He has been a tireless popularizer of Dante's work since 2015. For TV2000 he made two TV programs on Dante and Pinocchio, and in 2021 he finished the complete commentary on the Divine Comedy published by Mondadori, illustrated by Gabriele Dell'Otto.

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