A project created and followed by Sabina Crippa

A cross-disciplinary course investigating different ways of writing poetry by following reason, where new paths are continually discovered blending together, diverging and then crossing over again. The project “Poetry. The courage of reason” will celebrate poetic compositions giving a closer look into the creative and rational dimension. In order to help analyse poetry as an extraordinary instrument of reason, the event will include iconographic documents from the Renaissance (attempted poetry vs reasoned poetry), testimonies of an Egyptian cosmology and of the founding myth of the ancient Greek culture, the description of math as a brilliant element in poetic creation, as well as a scientific meditation on the therapeutic power of poetic work. Sabina Crippa, Emanuele Marcello Ciampini, Pietro Licausi, Gino Zucchini, Giuseppe Capriotti, Maurizio Ascari will be speaking. Vanna Vinci, famous cartoonist and illustrator, will be the person in charge for the communication of Omaggio di Poesia 2012.