Alessandro Barbero will return on Monday, December 15 to Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo (6:30 PM) to present his new book about Saint Francis. This special event is organized by the Teatro Donizetti Foundation in collaboration with Editori Laterza and is supported by Intesa Sanpaolo, BCC Oglio e Serio, and Sitip Spa.
Advance tickets available from Wednesday, July 23 at the Teatro Donizetti Box Office and online through Vivaticket. Tickets cost 15 euros.

“We are delighted to announce the return of Alessandro Barbero to our theater, one of the most significant figures in Italian culture in recent years, a scholar and educator who can communicate great historical events and figures like no other” – comments Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Teatro Donizetti Foundation – “Barbero was a hugely successful protagonist of the first edition of History Lectures in 2024, and having him back with us for a special event, thanks to our well-established partnership with Editori Laterza, has special significance in reaffirming the importance and value of our cultural offerings.”

During the “meeting, Alessandro Barbero will explore the many versions of Saint Francis’s life that have come down to us. Who was Francis of” Assisi? Was he the person described in the biographies written by friars who “knew him personally, or the one portrayed in Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s biography written forty years after his death, or the one described in other texts that were discovered after they had been made to disappear? Barbero will show us the” intricate hall of mirrors that has multiplied, fragmented, and ultimately constructed the story of the saint we all think we know.

Tickets
Single seat €15.00
Sales begin: July 23, 2025, 4:00 PM

At TEATRO DONIZETTI
Piazza Cavour, 15 – Bergamo
Tel. 035.4160 601/602/603
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM (excluding holidays)
On event days: one and a “half hours before the start”

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