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For Unimore's 850th anniversary, a concert of 14th-century music at the Church of San Carlo

After the event dedicated to Bernardo Ramazzini, acknowledged today as the father of occupational medicine, the week kicking off the celebrations for the 850th anniversary of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia continues with the 14th-century music concert ‘Il Paradiso di Francesco - Un giardino cortese nella Firenze del Trecento’, performed by the medieval music ensemble laReverdie, on Thursday 24 October at 9 p.m., at the Church of San Carlo, in Modena.

To contextualise the theme of the concert, it is necessary to take a leap in time to the Florence of 1389, in the garden of the residence of the humanist Antonio Alberti, known as the ‘Paradise’, where one could meet personalities from the Florentine political, intellectual and artistic world of the time. Various themes are intertwined in Alberti's Paradise: love, politics, philosophy, ethics, linguistics, music. LaReverdie will explore these thematic threads in the fabric of the concert and evoke a soundtrack inspired by the conversations and stories of the Garden of Paradise.

LaReverdie, a medieval music ensemble founded in 1986, performs regularly and intensively in Italy and in several countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Austria, England, Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Sweden and Mexico.

It has some 20 recordings to its credit, which have won numerous international critical awards, including the Diapason d'Or de l'année 1993. Their latest CDs have been nominated for International Classical Music Awards (2010, 2014, 2019) in the Early Music category... From laReverdie's extensive discography, a CD dedicated to the Middle Ages was taken in its entirety for the series I Classici della Musica published by Corriere della Sera in 2007.

The origins of the University in Modena date back to 1175, when Pillio da Medicina, a Doctor of Laws active in Bologna, was invited to Modena by the ruling elite of the Municipality to open a school of legal education focusing on Roman law. It is therefore one of the oldest universities in Europe, after Bologna and Paris.

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