Great music returns to Lucca with 62nd edition of the Sagra Musicale Lucchese, a historic festival of sacred music.

An original project conceived by the Martini-Dominguez Duo for the Sagra Musicale Lucchese 2025)

1300, Rome: millions of pilgrims come from all over the world to take part in the Holy Year, proclaimed by Boniface VIII.

Among the many pilgrims there are also real celebrities; from Cimabue to Giotto, up to Dante Alighieri. Both Giotto and Dante tell us, leaving us the freedom to imagine, life in Rome during the first Jubilee.

In San Giovanni in Laterano there is a fragment of a fresco by Giotto, dating back to 1300: «Boniface VIII proclaims the Jubilee of 1300».

Legend has it that the Pope, in search of a painter (whom he would later commission a portrait during the Jubilee year), contacted Giotto, who had already distinguished himself with his first frescoes in Assisi and the Crucifix of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.

The Pope nevertheless asked for proof of his abilities; so Giotto drew a perfect circle freehand and handed it over to the Pope's confidant, who no longer had any doubts about the artist's extraordinary talent.
Dante can be defined as a true chronicler of the first Jubilee, he left us a photographic description of the city during the Holy Year.

«As the Romans for the army very, the year of the Jubilee, on the bridge / have to pass the people in a cultured way, that on one side all have their front / towards the castle and go to Saint Peter, on the other bank they go towards the mountain».

And it is precisely thanks to this first snapshot that begins the journey that will accompany us to the present day, to return short photographs of some Jubilees, ordinary and extraordinary.

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