Il Sogno di Campaldino

   Illustrated film and theater screenplay

          By Giovanni Enrico Arrighini

 

 

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Il Sogno di Campaldino - Illustrated screenplay for cinema and theather by Giovanni Enrico Arrighini - Drawings by Michele Arrighini 2021- The meeting in a dream of two poets Dante and Ezra Pound

 

 

 

     From 'Gli Uomini della Neve' to 'Il Sogno di Campaldino'

 

 

"...Here error is all in the not done,

all in the diffidence that faltered."

(Ezra Pound)

 

 

 

'Il Sogno di Campaldino' (2019-2020) was conceived as an illustrated film screenplay. The stage adaptation was realized at the end of year 2020, with only slight changes to the original story.

 

The work is the natural continuation of 'Gli Uomini della Neve' (2007), the author's first screenplay that will be promoted in 2022 during  the centenary of the first publication of S. T. Eliot's ''The Waste Land' and R. M. Rilke's 'Duineser Elegien', cultural references for the story[...]

 

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Il Sogno di Campaldino - Illustrated screenplay for cinema and theather by Giovanni Enrico Arrighini - Drawings by Michele Arrighini 2021- The meeting in a dream of two poets Dante and Ezra Pound

 

Synopsis

 

E' pane preso in prestito

la vita: oh, renderlo

potessi e dire grazie...

(Giuseppe Cordoni)

 

 

 

The dream of a patient on his last day of internment in the Washington DC criminal asylum in 1958, transports us from the island of San Michele on the Venice lagoon to the plain of Campaldino in 1289, where the poet Dante Alighieri is deploying to the front line of the Florentine army[...]

Il Sogno di Campaldino - Illustrated screenplay for cinema and theather by Giovanni Enrico Arrighini - Drawings by Michele Arrighini 2021- The meeting in a dream of two poets Dante and Ezra Pound

 

      When poetry becomes the most plausible hypothesis
           A small critical note on 'Il Sogno di Campaldino'
           by Giuseppe Cordoni

 

 

Love thou thy dream
All base love scorning,
Love thou the wind
And here take warning
That dreams alone can truly be,
For 'tis in dream I come to thee.

                                (Ezra Pound)

 

 

That in every age human intelligence has applied most of its best talents to the techniques of war remains a mystery of iniquity on evil power. Even more disconcerting is a paradox of meaning that it has even come to define it as an art. An oxymoron: the Art of War! Since it is always devoted to causing death and destruction, completely irreconcilable with the other Arts, all destined to the service of life [...]