FLR Incontra is a new series of events conceived and produced by the La Rocca Foundation. This project marks a further development of the foundation’s program: alongside its exhibition activities, the foundation is launching an independent space for reflection and research, dedicated to ideas, discourse, and interdisciplinary dialog. It was created with the aim of establishing a space for in-depth exploration beyond exhibitions, where the public is invited to engage directly with scholars, authors, and artists through specially designed formats i.e. series of meetings, monologues, and lectures, capable of fostering a more process-oriented and discursive dimension.

 

From May 24 to September 27, 2026

Supernatural Theaters: Parodies of Sacred Scripture

Five Monologues curated by Gianni Garrera

The FLR Incontra program opens on Sunday, May 24, at 6:30 p.m. with *Supernatural Theaters*. Parodies of Sacred Scripture, a series curated by Gianni Garrera for FLR Incontra. A musicologist, translator, and playwright, Garrera will lead five sessions on May 24, June 28, July 26, August 30 and September 27 — all at 6:30 PM and all with free admission. The series is designed to explore the concept of genius in relation to the fantastical principle of divine revelation, through a comparison of the limits of truth and the exuberance of error, the evidence of the commandments and the imaginings of heresy in the construction of the literary text. These are investigations into the confusion between divine revelation and personal invention in modern literature, into the influences of the demonic fable on poetic practice, and into the mystical presumptions of the imagination.

Month by month, the series will explore key figures and moments — from St. Francis to Shakespeare to Leopardi — offering a reflection on the tension between norm and deviation in writing. The series continues on June 28 with “The Theater of Spirits”: Shakespeare and the Afterlife”, dedicated to the visionary dimension and the relationship amobg justice, revenge, and the imagination of the beyond1; On July 26 with “The Resurrection of the Flesh: Literature for Salvation”, an exploration of the representations of the body and life after the end of the cosmos; on August 30 with Solid Nothingness. The Infinities of Giacomo Leopardi, focusing on the limits of the infinite and the void and ends on September 27 with “Beauty Will Destroy the World. The End of the World as a Work of Art”, a reflection on the spectacular and representational dimension of the final catastrophe.

 

 

Events

 

From May 24 to September 27, 2026

Supernatural Theaters. Parodies of the Sacred Scripture.

Five Monologues curated by Gianni Garrera

 

Sunday, May 24, h 6.30 p.m.

Animal Holiness: St. Francis and Nature

In the year marking the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death, this monologue reinterprets his figure as a radical poetic and theatrical practice: the image of God and the image of man, stigmatization and imitation, up to paradoxical acts such as the transfer of the Gospel from humans to birds, the institution of the Eucharist for animals, and the restoration of the Earthly Paradise as a natural place in contrast to the artificial future of the Heavenly Jerusalem.

 

Sunday, June 28, h 6.30 p.m.

The Theater of Spirits: Shakespeare and the Afterlife

Hamlet clashes with the Catholic and merciful concept of Purgatory. The play explores the delusions of individual prophecy and claims to authority over the afterlife, the dilemma between the ancient vengeance of the body and the modern judgment of the soul, and the spiritualist allusions of witty remarks and the comedy of the afterlife.

 

Sunday, July 26, h 6.30 p.m.

The Resurrection of the Flesh. Literature for Salvation

The anatomy of resurrected bodies, life in heaven after the destruction of the cosmos and the reclaiming of the flesh without Nature. The diets, visions, auditory experiences and emotional states of the resurrected in the imagination of literature.

 

Sunday, August 30, h 6.30 p.m.

Solid Nothingness: Giacomo Leopardi’s Infinities

An analysis of the limits of the infinite and the impossibility of transcending the world. If all things that have come into being did so in order to die, non-being would be the only hope and the sole guarantee. However, for Leopardi, even non-being is threatened by the ever-present possibility of life: such possibility limits the infinity of nothingness as well.

 

Sunday, September 27, h 6.30 p.m.  

Beauty Will Destroy the World. The End Of The World As A Work of Art

The spectacle of the “Last Judgment” as pure representation. The final liturgy, viewed from a theatrical perspective, reveals the order in which the catastrophe unfolds, the zeal of the virtuosity of destruction, and the wonder of the assaults on heaven and earth.

 

Sunday, October 11, h 6.30 p.m.

Human Affairs

A monologue by Antonio Pascale

Inspired by his novel of the same name (Einaudi, 2025), which addresses the contradictions of the present with irony and clarity: from our relationship with the earth to energy and human relationships, offering a reflection on the tensions that define our contemporary world.

 

 

 

All events are free of charge. Reservations are required. Please send an e-mail to: segreteria@larocca.foundation