Paolo Cevoli will be in Trento on Thursday 24 April 2025 at the Teatro Auditorium Santa Chiara.
In this new monologue he tells in an ironic and contemporary way the mythical journey of Aeneas, comparing it with other journeys that have marked the history of humanity. From Christopher Columbus to Little Red Riding Hood, from the Viking prince Ragnar to his father Luciano who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s.
Aeneas, a defeated hero, flees from Troy in flames with his gods in his pocket, his father on his shoulders and his son in his hand: his roots and hope for a better future. After a thousand adventures he reaches the mouth of the Tiber where he finds a nursing sow - a prophetic sign for the place to stop - and while the women prepare focaccia, the Trojan exiles sacrifice the sow and her piglets. The epic journey of Rome's founder ends with a picnic of porchetta sandwiches.
This and many other episodes of the Virgilian poem are at the heart of Paolo Cevoli's story, to rediscover the values and roots of the Italian people. As did Virgil who wrote the Aeneid to give a noble dependence to the ancient Romans, our ancestors. He thought: rather than being the children of anyone, it is better to be the children of Troy.
