MANTUA – A time machine will take Piazza Alberti back over six centuries for two days and transform it into a real market of the end of the fourteenth century. Here under the watchful eye of the Gonzaga guards, there will in fact be the tailor, the weaver, the dyer, the wool merchant, the apothecary, the goldsmith, the calligrapher, the coin maker and then again the pilgrims, the armigers and many craftsmen.
It will happen next Saturday and Sunday with the eighteenth edition of medieval Mantua, presented this morning in the Municipality by the councilor Serena Pedrazzoli and by the heads of the Medieval Mantua Association – La Compagnia della Rosa ad 1403 Asd.
The presentation of the event
About a hundred will be reenactors from all over Italy that will make the public live an authentic medieval experience thanks to conferences, educational workshops and traveling shows with the sympathetic people Milfo Lo Buffon Jester and Leo Gobbo his companion.
For more than twenty years the members of the Association have been aiming at the reconstruction, historically accurate to carry out all-round culture. From material culture to the research of the written and pictorial source, so as to disseminate to the public a vision of the time that goes from 1380 to 1410 in a correct way and without false historical myths.
The event, which sees the patronage and contribution of the Municipality of Mantua and the patronage of the Council of the Lombardy Region, is very much felt in the Virgilian capital: just think that last year, when there were anti- Covid, 1,500 attendees were registered.
For the children during the two days there will be painting and fencing workshops
Saturday alle ore 18 La compagnia teatrale Hic Sunt Histriones, proporrà la commedia “Trial of Tiberius, the emperor in the shadows “. A few hours earlier, at 3.30 pm in the truss room there will be the meeting entitled “Death to the tyrant “Bonacolsi,
Gonzaga and love of country in Mantua between the Middle Ages and the modern age “ edited by Marco Venturelli author of the book “Mantua and the Mummy – Passerino Bonacolsi and the Gonzagas The creation of a myth” Editoriale Sometti Mantova. Introduced by Mirko Gragnato Charlemagne Prize of the European Parliament President IXDeae.
On Sunday at 10.30 there will be a meeting on the theme “Discard, tirar and cavar. Notes on armor manufacturing techniques in northern Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century “ curated by Giovanni Sartori, internationally renowned scholar / armoraro in the field of conservation and reconstruction of medieval weapons and armor, moderated by Alberto Riccadonna, curator of the Armature delle Grazie, who will later propose to the public “Armor B3 and Federico da Montefeltro – chronicle of a restoration “.
Entrance to the Piazza Leon Battista Alberti area is free
Contacts:
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Program
Saturday 17th September
3.00 pm Opening of craft and re-enactment activities
15:30 “Death to the tyrant” Bonacolsi, Gonzaga and love of country in Mantua between the Middle Ages and the ages
modern curated by Marco Venturelli
17:00 – 18.00 didactic workshop of painting and fencing for children 5/12 years
18:00 “Trial of Tiberius, the emperor in the shadows” by the theater company “Hic Sunt
the players”
19.30 closing of activities
Archery trials all day long
Sunday 18th September
10:00 am Opening of craft and re-enactment activities
10.30 am didactic workshop of painting and fencing for children 5/12 years
10.30 am “Scartar, tirar e cavar. Notes on armor manufacturing techniques in northern Italy
from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century “by Giovanni Sartori
11:30 am “Armor B3 and Federico da Montefeltro – chronicle of a restoration” by Alberto Riccadonna
17:00 – 18.00 didactic workshop of painting and fencing for children 5/12 years
19:00 closing of activities
Archery trials all day long
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