A creative act generated by the force of political, philosophical and religious thought

On the seventh centenary of his death, publications dedicated to the author of The Comedy are multiplying. With Dante, nostro padre. Il pensatore visionario che ha fondato l’Italia (Vallecchi), Marcello Veneziani stands out from the chorus and conducts an analysis that exalts the cultural and moral legacy of the great poet and identifies him as the princeps, that is, the beginning and origin, of the Italian nation.

Marcello Veneziani

A writer and journalist, considered one of the leading intellectuals of the Italian right, he has dedicated many of his works to the Bel Paese.

In conversation with Marco Leonardi, University of Catania.