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LECTURA FRANCISCANA The 'Canticle of the Creatures' and the Poetry of Nature in Our Time Series of meetings curated by the Literature and Philosophy Section of the Officina San Francesco Bologna (coordinator Giuseppe Ledda, University of Bologna) Biblioteca San Francesco Bologna 4 May 2024, 6.00 pm Contributions by Guidalberto Bormolini, theologian, and Davide Rondoni, poet. Readings by Jacopo Trebbi, actor Introduced and moderated by Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna) Under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region Municipality of Bologna Archdiocese of Bologna Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna With the contribution of the Italian Province of St. Anthony of Padua of the Friars Minor Conventual Eight centuries after the date in which the composition of the 'Canticle of the Creatures' or 'Laudes creaturarum' by St. Francis (1224-26) is traditionally placed, the Officina San Francesco Bologna is organizing a series of meetings dedicated to this poetic text, among the oldest in Italian literature. To celebrate this anniversary and renew the vitality of the Franciscan composition, the Officina is proposing three meetings, each of which is divided into two parts. The first moment will focus on the text of the 'Canticle', which will be briefly presented, from a literary, theological or linguistic point of view, by a scholar, chosen from time to time among the greatest specialists of medieval culture, and which will then be recited by an actor from Emilia-Romagna Teatro. The second moment includes the intervention of one of the greatest poets of our time, who will talk to us about his relationship with the 'Canticle of the Creatures' and the theme of nature in his poetry, also through the reading of his own texts.