Dante’s Day 2026: Dante, poet of peace and love

On March 26, at 9:00 PM, on the occasion of Dante’s Day, the Roberto de Silva Civic Theatre in Rho will host Gianni Vacchelli, narrator, Dante scholar, and lecturer, who, with a Dantean lecture designed for the theater space, brings Dante’s words back to resonate alive, powerful, and necessary. Through the reading and timely commentary of selected passages from the Commedia, Vacchelli takes the audience on a journey from the “dark forest” to the light of the “love that moves the sun and the other stars,” from the violence of the “she-wolf” to the peace of the “white rose.” In a time marked by wars, polarization, and crises of meaning, the Commedia reveals itself as both a great spiritual poem and a political-civic work: a work of peace that denounces the arrogance of power, protests against injustice, and calls for a higher awareness of the human, a leap of consciousness involving also the cosmos and mystery. An occasion to rediscover Dante not as an author of the past, but as a master of wisdom and awakening, both contemporary and timeless, capable of uniting beauty, inner exploration, and commitment to peace, truth, and justice. Dante is alive and speaks to the man of today.

Free entry