Il Sogno di Campaldino
Illustrated film and theater screenplay
By Giovanni Enrico Arrighini
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Il Sogno di Campaldino
Illustrated film and theater screenplay
Criminal asylum in Washington DC 1958
On the last day of his internment,
patient number 11011972
dreams of meeting
the poet Dante Alighieri
in the days of the battle of Campaldino
fought
on June 11th, 1289
Before the beginning of the battle, an insecure and terrified young knight, was called to fight for his city Florence and for his family's good name.
At that time ' La Commedia ' had not yet been conceived; everything was hung on the subtle line between dream, poetry and nothingness. That man alone on horseback in the front rows of the Florentine army, waiting to face something terrible, looks like each of us, abandoned in continuos hesitance.
'... Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered '.
(Ezra Pound)
