Lucio Dalla walked among people like a silent friend, gathering glances, scents, and suspended phrases.
He loved real life — the kind that makes you laugh, tremble, hope — and from every detail, even the faintest one, he knew how to let a song be born.
His notes carry the smell of cafés, the noise of train stations, the melancholy of rented rooms, the sudden wind of the sea.
The happiness he speaks of is true, imperfect, human, alive.
Francesco Hayez’s painting was a moral act: a search for a beauty capable of speaking to the conscience. In his works, history becomes feeling, and feeling becomes form. Every face is a listening soul, every gesture a suspended thought.
Venice taught him light, Rome taught him harmony, Milan revealed to him an inner freedom.
From the discipline of drawing came grace; from the sensuality of color, meditation. In the bodies that brush against each other, in the veils that dissolve, Hayez seeks truth — the profound unity between spirit and matter. His art is an ethical language more than an aesthetic one: beauty as a way to remember who we are.
In this episode of Mousiké, “The Italy of Hayez” explores the hidden soul of his Romanticism — where form is measure, but also whisper; where melancholy turns into light, and painting becomes conscience.
When marble becomes light, and beauty becomes a language of identity.
“The Italy of Canova” is a journey through the birth of Italian cultural identity seen through the purest form of beauty.
Between light, marble, and spirit, Antonio Canova sculpts not only perfect bodies but the moral and aesthetic soul of a nation yet to be born.
From Venice to Rome, his art becomes a universal language of harmony and dignity — a mirror of an Italy that lives first in art, before politics.
Refusing privilege and power, Canova chose to serve beauty alone, restoring to Europe the image of a country whose greatness lies in its culture and conscience.
A story about an Italy that rises from grace, creativity, and the human mission of art.
“The Italy of Verdi” is a journey into the birth of a nation through the power of culture.
Music, painting, and literature become languages of unity: Verdi, Manzoni, Hayez, and Clara Maffei tell the story of a people who, step by step, learn to recognize themselves in their own voice.
Among theatres, novels, and melodies, a vibrant and passionate Italy takes shape — where art ignites pride, language becomes a common home, and beauty builds unity.
A story about an Italy born from feelings, ideas, and the longing for belonging — through our culture and creativity.