Ensemble Micrologus | Moni Ovadia - Bologna Festival

"In voce mista al dolce suono - letture dantesche con musiche di autori coevi al sommo poeta". As part of his academic studies Dante had undoubtedly studied music in its most abstract and speculative meaning, the one that according to Thomas Aquinas in his commentary on Boethius "considers sounds not as such, but as they depend on numerical proportions". Did he also like "sounds as such"? It seems to. In the Convivio he describes musical listening with words so warm as to betray an experiential participation similar to a mystical ecstasy: "Music draws human spirits to itself, which are vapors of the heart, so that they almost cease from any operation: one is there 'whole soul, when the ode, and the virtue of almost all runs to the sensitive spirit that receives the sound ».