October 9, 2026 – Symbols of Beauty

On Friday, October 9, at 9:30 a.m., the Vittoriale Auditorium will host “The Symbols of Beauty.”

The event begins with a welcome address by Giordano Bruno Guerri, President of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, and with official remarks by Giovanna Ciccarelli, Head of the Schools and Education Department at the Vittoriale degli Italiani Foundation, and from Emanuela Fugazza, President of the Center for the Study of Legal Symbolism at the University of Pavia.

The following speakers will take the floor:

• Giosuè Allegrini, Head of Historical and Artistic Heritage at EDiSU Pavia, with *Symbols of Beauty in Contemporary Art*;
• Giulio Chiodi, of the University of Insubria, with *Aesthetics and Symbolic Forms of Community*;
• Giuseppe D’Anna, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, with *The Beauty of the Ineffable: Symbol and Spanish Mysticism*;
• Maurizio Harari, of the University of Pavia, with Medusa;
• Michele Madonna, of the University of Pavia, with *The Crisis and Current Significance of Religious Symbols: A Historical-Legal Analysis*;
• Filippo Moretti, of the University of Pavia, with *Toward a Knowledge of the Soul: The Symbols of Beauty in the Light of *razón poética*;*
• Marco Sorelli, of the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, with *Symbolism as Emotion: A Neuroaesthetic Interpretation*.

Admission is free while seats last.