(toskanews) – He is a young man full of vitality, a revolutionary, highly cultured, fragile and rebellious at the same time, the poet that Sergio Rubini brings to TV with “Leopardi – The poet of the infinite”. The miniseries broadcast on 7 and 8 January on Rai 1, starring Leonardo Maltese, offers an unprecedented portrait of the genius capable of setting fire to not only amorous passions but also political ideals with his verses.
Rubini tells of a free man who challenged his time, the Austrian invader, the Church and the very founders of the nascent Italian state. A philosopher, who loved man, before the masses. “If I think of Musk’s transhumanism, I think instead of Leopardi who always counters man, the individual. – said the director – There cannot be happy masses regardless of happy individuals. He has always put humanism, man, the individual, beauty and freedom at the centre.”
Freedom of thought which even today, according to Rubini, cannot be caged: “They made him become a nihilist, a pessimist, the left pulled him to the left, the right pulled him to the right. Instead, Leopardi’s thought is a free thought, not subject to any parish.”
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