DIVINE MIDDLE AGES: VINE AND WINE IN THE “DARK AGES” OF ITALY

Lecture guided by Patrizia Raggio and Cristina Anghinetti

Sala Piranesi
Sunday February 22nd, 13:00 hrs

The quest for the sacred has always brought man to use intoxicating food: from hallucinogenic plants to the discovery of fermentation. We should therefore distinguish between drinking to seek “inebriation and contact with a superior world” and drinking out of “necessity” albeit throughout the millennia the two concepts end up overlapping. From bier to mead, from cider to wine: it will be the latter to impose itself on the tables of ancient populations of the Italic peninsula.
Together with Patrizia Raggio, specialist in archaeology and medieval history and Cristina Anghinetti, manager of various archaeological sites in Italy, we will discuss the significance and the use of wine in medieval age, as well as vine cultivation, dwelling on our past in order to gain more consciousness of the present.

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