???? Subscribe and visit the Channel to never miss a video: / @clubmetafisico NOTICE: If the video is not to the liking of the respective authors, via a comment that you can send us below, we will proceed to remove it. Consult the website of the Municipality of Misano: https://www.comune.misano-adriatico.r... Friday 10 March 2017, with FRANCO CARDINI, historian, essayist, Italian blogger and well-known scholar of the Middle Ages, the myth of PERCEFAL or the story of the Holy Grail is on stage. We usually call him Parsifal: he is the Seeker of the Grail. Richard Wagner, writing the music and libretto of his last masterpiece, the "musical drama" performed in 1882, also explained - in imaginatively philological terms - the Arabic-Persian meaning of the name: "Pure Fool". In reality, Wagner was inspired by a German Minnesänger who lived between 1170 and 1220, Wolfram von Eschenbach, active at the court of the Landgrave of Thuringia. Wolfram wrote in the first decade of the 13th century a poem in 25,000 octosyllabic verses with rhyming couplets, in Middle High German, in which he took up the story of the “quest for the Grail” from the person who appears to have been its original narrator, the poet Chrétien de Troyes (active between 1160 and 1190), author of chivalric romances in verse, the most famous of which, perhaps, Perceval, ou Li conte dou Graal, remained unfinished. But the legend elaborated by Chrétien, probably on French folkloric material, shows a Celtic origin: and the Grail is described as a cup, a kind of magic cornucopia that however has to do with the Eucharistic mystery (later it would become the cup of the Last Supper). In von Eschenbach, who is perhaps indirectly inspired by Arab-Persian mythical-chivalric models, the Grail is a stone that has been placed in relation with the Cornerstone of the Gospel, Christ, or with the alchemical Philosopher's Stone. In Wagner the Grail returns to being a cup that contains the Sang Real (that is, the Holy Grail, always according to a fanciful etymology), but the mystical atmosphere that surrounds it recalls more the Indo-Buddhist models that the great artist had derived from Schopenhauer than Christian spirituality. The true protagonist of the evening will end up being a great myth that has dominated the European imagination from the 12th to the 21st century, the Grail, one and triune (with many minor variations) through the masterpieces of Chrétien, Wolfram Aschenbach and Richard Wagner. ???? Books Carlo Sini: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/carlo... ???? Books Emanuele Severino: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/emanu... ???? Books Carlo Rovelli: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/carlo... ???? Books Telmo Pievani: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/telmo... ???? Books Luciano Canfora: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/lucia... ???? Books Franco Cardini: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/franc... ???? Books Guido Barbujani: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/guido... ???? Books Matteo Saudino: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/matte... ???? Books Luca Mercalli: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/luca-... ???? Books Alberto Angela: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/alber... ???? Books Gabriele Ghisellini: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/gabri... ???? Books Margherita Hack: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/margh... ???? Books Remo Bodei: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/remo-... ???? Books Giorgio Agamben: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/giorg... ???? Books Vito Mancuso: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/vito-... ???? Listen to the Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2QGfplM... Check out the Playlist with all the videos: ????️ Misano Conferences: • Misano Conferences For copyright issues: ➡️ Email in Info ___________ The channel is NOT monetized, no profits are made in any way from what is published.