Image: Cesena Cultura, Cesena
Cesena’s poetry-and-music series ‘I Suoni dello Spirito 2026’ begins on Friday, 7 August, with an evening dedicated to Dante at the cloister of the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte. The opening event, announced by Cesena Cultura, is titled ‘Dante e il Monte. Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio 30’ and is scheduled for 9 pm at the abbey in Cesena, Italy.
The event marks the launch of a new edition of a programme that combines poetry and music in a setting described by the newsletter as the suggestive cloister of the abbey. The series name appears in Cesena Cultura’s listings alongside other summer cultural events, indicating that ‘I Suoni dello Spirito 2026’ forms part of the municipality’s broader seasonal offer of concerts, screenings, guided visits and exhibitions.
The first appointment focuses on Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’, specifically the 30th canto. The verified material does not provide additional details about the performers, the format beyond the title ‘Lectura Dantis’, or any accompanying musical programme, so the announcement centres on the literary reading itself and its placement within the abbey setting.
The Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte is one of the listed venues in the Cesena Cultura calendar, and the cloister serves here as the site for the opening night. The choice of location places the Dante reading within an atmosphere of historic architecture and contemplative space, consistent with the series’ title and with the municipal calendar’s emphasis on cultural events presented in emblematic venues across the city.
In the same Cesena Cultura newsletter, the 7 August listing is part of a busy stretch of summer programming that also includes film screenings and other events on neighbouring dates. Within that schedule, ‘I Suoni dello Spirito 2026’ appears as a distinct poetry-and-music strand beginning on 7 August and continuing through later August dates, according to the site listing.
The announcement offers a concise set of facts: the date is Friday, 7 August 2026; the time is 9 pm; the venue is the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte in Cesena; and the opening programme is ‘Dante e il Monte. Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio 30’. No further specifics are verified in the source material, and the calendar entry leaves the audience with those concrete details as the new edition gets underway.
