The Saturday evening on Rai 1 < / strong> is back to talk about History, art and culture. A new challenge for Alberto Angela from 21 September starts the new season of Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery , six new episodes in the early evening telling the places and historical characters accompanied by Gigi Proietti that will give a voice to the protagonists of the stories told, while other famous guests to add memories and anecdotes related to the episodes.
Alberto Angela, the journey of ‘Ulysses’ departs from Jerusalem
from the Jerusalem at the time of Jesus to the discovery of the events that have happened in the land of Israel in the period in which it lived. It is a period full of turmoil and tensions, characterized by the difficult relationship between jews and romans, and from an intense messianic fervor. The intent is not to talk about Jesus, but to define the context in which you moved, frame, historical, archaeological, and social around her figure. From Herod the great (the end of whose reign Jesus was born) with the numerous architectural remains that left in the area: the fortress of Masada, to the city of Caesarea maritima, from the sumptuous tomb of the Herodion in the Temple, until his successor, Herod Antipas, whose name is linked to the story of Salome, death of John the Baptist and the story of the complicated trial of Jesus.
the Protagonist of the second episode is Leonardo da Vinci , 500 years from the death of the scientist, painter, writer, and inventor. A journey from Italy to France to tell the genesis of many of his works, and the end of his life in Amboise, in the castle and gave it to the king of France, Francis I, and where he is buried. In Milan, Leonardo lived 17 years, from 1482, at the court of Ludovico il Moro, who was to him inspiration for many of his works. The upper room, a work that is among the most visited in Italy, and will be moving to Florence in its museum, the most famous, the Uffizi gallery, for a visit in the Leonardo Room, where they are exposed to other masterpieces of the tuscan genius.
The third episode follows in the footsteps of marie-Antoinette , the last queen of France, the Versailles palace, the symbol of the Ancien Regime, of opulence, of the magnificence in the architecture, but also the waste of a court famous all over the world. It is among the sumptuous rooms, vast staircases, a hamlet in the countryside, corridors, hidden doors, parties, jewelry, wigs, ceramics, and clothes that Alberto Angela tells the story of this ill-fated court, starting from the marriage of Louis XVI and marie Antoinette, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, until the end of his life, in 1793, came to an end in the prison of the Conciergerie, and under the blade of the guillotine of the Place de la Révolution in Paris, today called the place de la Concorde.
From the court of France passes in the next event of another nobility, and the sicilian one: red wire to tell the story of this land where history is layered and has left thousands of signs is a great Italian novel of the ‘900, The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The films of Luchino Visconti re-created the atmospheres of sumptuous palaces during the troubled period of history that marks the transition from the kingdom of the two Sicilies to the Kingdom of Italy. Some places are among the most beautiful of the island, Alberto Angela tells the love story of Tancredi and Angelica in the background of landscapes from the ancient and wonderfully unspoiled.
then from the Cinecittà studios, the episode dedicated to the world of Ben Hur : sixty years ago, it was filmed on the blockbuster Hollywood with Charlton Heston, but it was an invented story. Alberto Angela tells the story of a true story, that of the authentic charioteer Scorpo, celebrated the victories and mourned for the untimely death, by the poet Martial. We’ll see what happened at the Circus Maximus, a site dedicated to the races, and everything that took place around the racing of chariots, and the chariots: something like the football market and football bets today.
The sixth and last appointment (Saturday) 26 October) celebrates the 40 years since the first Italian site to be shown to the Unesco to protect world heritage site: the rock engravings of Valcamonica. For this occasion, Alberto Angela enters the Quirinale , the “casa degli italiani”, to tell the heritage of outstanding historical, artistic and natural Italian the envy of the world. Also fifty years ago, in fact, was established the Carabinieri for the Protection of cultural heritage, the first organization in the world specializing in this field in the defense of this heritage.
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