Vesper No. 6 | Magic | Spring-Summer 2022
Stefano Pifferi
‘Lo
Stradone’ to ‘Remoria’. A Historical-Esoteric-Visionary
Re-reading of Rome
Mythical place since its foundation, "new Jerusalem" and
celestial city, glory and glory of creation but also open-air museum and a
bridge between classicism and modernity, over the centuries Rome, with its
ability to attract irresistibly an enormous and diverse range of travellers,
has always represented a unicum among its brethren other cities and / or
capitals. And the gaze of those travelers highlighted the otherness and the
stratification and mixture of high and low, divine and human, real and
metaphysical, legend and everyday life. In a heretical interpretation, which
denounces the absence of any "great beauty" and certifies the
omnipresence of the third landscape Clémentian present everywhere to devastate
the idea of Latin classicism or that of an en plain air
museum, I will cross two texts different but interrelated by
"sedentary" authors: Lo Stradone, a novel by Francesco
Pecoraro, and Remoria, a visionary essay / grimoire by Valerio Mattioli,
for a historical, esoteric, visionary rereading of Rome that persists and
resists constructive stratifications as well as the constitutive ones, showing
at every turn, both street and authorial, surprises and new encodings.
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