Matteo Melchiorre narrator
Nelso Salton double bass
Tommaso Sogne violin and accordion
The journey of Clemente Miari at Christmas 1405-06 is an unpublished story by Matteo Melchiorre, derived from the ancient manuscript of the Chronicon (for which he curated the complete edition).
With musical accompaniment and the on-stage participation of Nelso Salton (double bass) and Tommaso Sogne (violin), Matteo Melchiorre's theatrical reading transforms an authentic story that emerged from old documents into a moment of magical and unprecedented immersion in the past.
In addition to narrating from a marginalized perspective a pivotal moment in European history, the tale of Clemente Miari's journey testifies to a different relationship with the very idea of embarking on a journey: a relationship based on a continuous and unavoidable confrontation with nature, the silent observer of human successes and misfortunes.
A historian and writer, director of the Library of the Museum and the Historical Archive of Castelfranco Veneto, Melchiorre focuses on the economic and social history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, of mountains, forests, and the edition of sources. Miari's medieval landscape is not heard in a secluded place away from everyday life, but in the auditorium of Trinseo, a contemporary productive space that brings a work landscape into the calendar.
