Tomorrow I will have the chance to attend a meeting organized by the "La Sapienza" University of Rome entitled "The Epicureism in the Imperial Age". There will be very important professors, such as Francesco Verde, certainly the most important Epicurean scholar in Italy. I asked permission to resume the speeches, so I will share them with you, at least with those who understand Italian.
I am very happy and I want to share this with you.
You can see all the pictures and the videos here:
https://vivere.biz/bafN
The exposition by Sandro Borzoni
Again the exposition with the Epiurus by Monica Rafaeli
The gadget shop.
Tomorrow will start!
And I am sure you will attack the Festival with everything you have got, and not moderately!
Sure!
And good luck with the festival and please keep us posted!!!
Thank you!
About Moderation we will talk soon, after the festival.
I'm so busy with the first Epicurean festival that will be next week that I do not read this forum ofthen
In the festival we will organize an epicurean lunch. And presenting the epicurean lunch to people jast this morning I wote this few lines:
Epicurus was not a vegetarian
Often we find the name Epicurus in the list of historical vegetarian figures. Indeed there are some testimonies in this sense, which are inevitably misunderstood by those who want to read us what they want to read.
For example San Girolamo tells us: "Epicurus, a supporter of pleasure, did nothing but fill all his books with vegetables and fruit, and said that it is necessary to live on simple foods, because the meats and the refined foods are prepared with great anxiety and effort , and there is greater punishment in proposing them than enjoying them ... "
But we know that Epicurus had made his flag of moderation and excluding a food on principle just does not fit into his strings. Certainly he normally preferred other foods, but on occasion there is no doubt that he even ate meat.
"Being able to live happily with simple and unrequired food is good for your health and (...) makes us appreciate more the little luxuries that sometimes fate gives us ..." (Letter to Meneceo).
Of course afther the festival I'll post all the pictures of Epicurs' Lunch... 
P.S. Dear Michelle, many thanks for your efforts to spread the right message of epicurean philosophy, and I hope in the festival there would be a reference to some of my above thoughts, by honest men and women as speakers.
Elli you can be sure it will be!
As for my presence at this event, sorry it is not possible, since this period of time my son will be married, and a lot of supportive issues for that day have to be done by me too.
I wish your son joy and happyness!
And I wish you to came to Senigallia in 2020 festival!
Here is an interesting article on the webpage of YSEE, by an historian Chris Aldridge https://www.ysee.gr/aldridge.html
You should read the last book of Catherine Nixey. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World.
In my book I'm tryng to explain that boot Cristians and Epicureas talks about friendship and love. But Epicureans must think about it. Cristians have just to have faith. And this is probably the cause cristians won. Think about everything, be ready to explayn our reasons is far harder than saying: "God saiud that". And peolple are lazy and sometimes stupid too.
Thank you for reading.
Michele - I was posting earlier today about the Boscoreale cup, and noting how frustrating it is that we don't have images for the full cup. If you happen to think of it and the occasion arises, it would be tremendously good if somehow we could get a 3d scan of it so that people could print their own duplicates. I know you have a lot on your mind but if the occasion arises to talk to anyone who might be able to help, please let us know!
Same thing goes for the leaping pig. It would be so great to get a 3d scan of that to print.
Of course I wouldn't even consider planting in your mind that a 3d scan of the Epicurus Hermarchus and Metrodorus busts from Herculaneum would make the world of Epicurean 3d scan / printing complete!
All this objects are conserved in important museums. I do not think it will be easy to have permission to scan them...
This is the program of Epicurean Festival in English.
Trade shows
28 - 31 August - 17-23 Palazzetto Baviera (Sala ex archivio)
The Garden of Epicurus - O Epicourou Képos
Exhibition curated by Sandro Borzoni.
Exhibition of Epicurus bust sculpted by the artist Monica Rafaeli froma Senigallia.
Display of the pendant inspired by the Herculaneum piglet made by the goldsmith Catia Coacci.
Exhibition of drawings by the artist Salvo Baglieri.
26th - 30th August - 9.00 am - 1.30 pm and 3.30 pm - 7.00 pm (Friday 9.00 am - 1.30 pm) - Municipal Media Library
Photo exhibition
Love / Friendship
Beauty / Happiness
PHOTO PATHS
by the Association Carlo Bugatti friends of Musinf
Thursday 29 August - Preview
22:30 Cinema Gabbiano
Before happiness
Projection of the short film by Andrea Carli dedicated to Happiness and Friendship. Projection of the documentary by Alain De Botton "Philosophy a guide to happiness - Epicurus on happiness"
Admission € 1
Friday 30 August
5.00 pm Palazzetto Baviera Ex-archive room
Presentation of the exhibition
Inauguration with the artists Monica Rafaeli and Catia Coacci and with the curator Sandro Borzoni.
18:00 - 20:00 Raffaello Hotel
Happiness is really simple
Presentation of the Book of Charm of the Garden of Grace Talia Calvi.
Epicurus Zen master
Presentation of the book "Epicurus of Samos, master ZEN" with the Zen monk Salvatore Shogaku Sottile.
Happiness has no sex
Why did Epicurus first open his school to women? With Professor Angela Sinicato and, in connection with Skype, Angela Lombardo.
Travelers and Stancials
A comparison between today's globalization and that of the Hellenistic Age and the positions of Epicurus with Professor Roberto Contessi.
21:30 Archeology Area La Fenice
Underground Senigallia - Readings from De Rerum Natura di Lucrezio
Voice: Catia Urbinelli, with Chiara Avati, violin and viola and Martina Giulianelli, Violin. By the Teatro Nuovo Melograno.
Saturday 31 August
7:00 Marta Baths 53
The sea and Zen
ZEN Meditation by Zen monk Salvatore Shogaku Sottile
(following)
Greek breakfast
Breakfast with honey addicts by Co ’magnam stasera?
11:00 - 12:30 Raffaello Hotel
Friendship, a privileged way to happiness
With the Researcher in Political Philosophy Elena Irrera of the University of Bologna.
Science and happiness
What science says about happiness today. With Tommaso Panajoli, scientific communicator of the Museo del Balì in Calcinelli di Saltara (PU).
Epicurean studies in Senigallia
Considerations on Rodolfo Mondolfo by professor Vittorio Mengucci.
13:30 Sepia by Niko
Nunc est bibendum
Greek cuisine revisited by chef Niko Pizzimenti
Menu:
- Trio of Babaganoush, beetroot, tzatziki with Greek pita and gyros of piglet
- Grilled Saganaki (cheese) and sunflower honey
- Grilled squids with broad bean cream
- Mousse du yougurt Greek style Santorini
Wine: Verdicchio
40 € (reservation required at 338.4485682)
17:00 Ubik Bookstore
An epicurean week
Presentation of the book "Lezioni di Felicità" with the author Ilaria Gaspari
18:30 - 20:00 Raffaello Hotel
Metaphysical materialistic Epicurus
Presentation of the book by Goffredo Coppola "Life of Epicurus" with Roberto Paradisi.
The assets of the soul are to be preferred to those of the body
Democritus: teacher of the ante litteram Garden by professor Sandro Borzoni.
The legacy of Enoanda
A journey through the ruins of Enoanda and the testimonies of Diogenes, curated by Harold Roig i Gorina
21:30 Piazza Roma
Epicurus in his time
Meeting with the philosopher Roberto Radice.
Curated by Fabrizio Marcantoni - UBIK Library.
(in case of rain the meeting will be held at Palazzetto Baviera)
11:30 pm Pasquini Coffee
Aut bibat aut abeat
Discussion of Greek and Latin traditional wines
Sunday, September 1st
11:00 Underpass via Mamiani
Instructions for happiness
Inauguration of the graffiti of JassArt group writers who report Epicurean's phrases on friendship.
In the second century AD in Enoanda in Lycia (now in Turkey), Diogenes, an old epicurean philosopher, wanted to share the happiness that Epicurus's philosophy had provided him but he realized that the people who needed happiness around him were too many for him to talk to each of them individually, so for all his fellow citizens, for the foreigners who visited the city and also for posterity, he had the cornerstones of the Epicurean philosophy engraved on an enormous wall.
A part of that wall has come down to us and it is thanks to Diogenes of Enoanda that we can read some works by Epicurus that would otherwise be lost and better understand his thinking.
Some guys did the same. They replaced the chisel with spray cans, but the desire for happiness remained unchanged.
12:00 Raffaello Hotel
The garden still flowers
Conclusions by Michele Pinto
I'll translate the program in English tomorrow.
I'll start again translating my book afher the festival, in September.
All you Cassius wrote about Senigallia is correct. We have an archaeological area in town and there we'll read some of Lucretius.
I'll take a lot of pictures and videos. I'll write a report and Sandro, a friend and an Italian Epicurean, will realize a book with all the relations. We are planning to establish an Association.
Hallo everybody!
I'm silent from a while here because I'm organizing the first epicurean festival. I have the complete program.
There will be a lot of short lessons about Epicurus (30 minutes).
There will be a launch based on the few writings of Epicurus about food. The painting of a subway with some sentences of Epicurus like in Enoanda, reading of Lucrezio and more.
I really hope who is not to far ( Elli) will came and enjoy us!
Then a goldsmith my friend realised a silver piglet inspired from Orace a and the piglet founded in Ercolano.
"If you want to have a laugh, come and see me!
I will welcome you in splendid form
in flesh and well groomed:
a pig from the herd of Epicurus. "
Horace, Letters, I, 4
More news here: http://epicuro.org/il-maialino-di-catia-coacci/
And then I published my book: http://epicuro.org/timoteo-e-dafn…ndo-di-epicuro/
Hope to listen you soon!
I read "Il Gattopardo" di Tomasi di Lampedusa, but I did not found anything of Epicurean in it.
It is a very important book for Italian culture.
The protagonist is a nobleman who, before the mission of Garibaldi's 1000, supported the Borbone king, after the Savoia king.
The most famous phrase, continually quoted in Italy is "Change everything because everything remains as it is". The king changes, but the privileges of the aristocracy remain unchanged. There is a reform, but politicians continue to steal ...
I'll write an article about the difference between American and Italian Epicureans. It will be fun.
I think there are not innate ideas or genetically transmitted knownledge. I think there is not an universal sense of justice.
I agree everything but this:
6. We are born with certain innate ideas, such as a sense of justice. These form a kind of genetically transmitted knowledge which is beneficial to our life.
It sems not corrent neither epicurean. Look at point 12.
Perhaps this person should have started out by questioning her premise of whether it is a good idea to simply give each philosopher a week at a time. Those were a lot of wasted weeks until she got to Epicurus!
Exactly! She will be at Epicurean festival this summer!
I just founded Hermotimus in italian and I'll read it.
http://www.filosofico.net/lucianoermotimo.htm
