After the success of last Season, “Lessons in History” returns to the Donizetti Theater with an unprecedented program of five meetings on the theme of “Rebels,” which focus on the thought and action of some great figures of the past and are meant to be an exhortation to cultivate hope for change that is always possible.
In times of uncertainty and war like the ones we are living, reconstructing the thought and action of some great figures of the past is meant to be an exhortation to cultivate hope for change that is always possible. From the Roman Empire to our own years, carried by the hand through the centuries, so many have discovered why an episode even distant in time explains our present and gives answers to the need for memory.

Rebels

History includes long seasons of continuity and sudden ruptures. Often these are facilitated, if not triggered, by the actions of a few individual men and women who, by questioning customs, mentalities, and rules, open new horizons of possibility. To the rebels who succeeded in radically changing the course of events, to those who tried and to those who imagined different paths from those beaten up to that moment, this cycle of Lessons in History is dedicated: a series of five appointments that will feature authoritative and passionate speakers, known to audiences of the most important Italian theaters. Rebels is the title of the new edition of History Lessons to be held at the Donizetti Theater from January 18 to March 1, 2025. Opening the cycle will be theologian Vito Mancuso with the lecture Jesus: the Breaking of the Law. On February 1 it will be the turn of Francesca Cenerini who will talk about the figure of Cleopatra and the influence Egyptian culture had on the taste of the Romans. The following Sunday Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli will take the stage to recount the historical figure, charisma and complex personality of Joan of Arc: a woman in arms. On Feb. 15 Luigi Mascilli Migliorini will offer a profound reflection on Robespierre, at the heart of the revolution, while to close, on March 1 Loris Zanatta will present Fidel Castro and his revolutionary “political religion.”

The cycle of Lessons in History is conceived by Editori Laterza and produced in co-production with the Donizetti Theater Foundation of Bergamo.

All meetings will be held at the Donizetti Theater.

All lectures are introduced by Max Pavan, journalist and anchor of Bergamo TV.

At the end of all the meetings, the authors will stop for a signacopie at the Gavazzeni Redoubt of the Theater.