I found recently to attend a seminar consisting of four meetings that run through several centuries analyzed, more or less detail the influences that the cosmos, the study of it, scientific discoveries have had on the literary production of the greatest writers in Italian and, more generally, of the effects generated in human history.
The first meeting was focused primarily on the relationship between man and heaven, in fact, man has always turned his attention to the sky, since the dawn of its history, has always looked to benefit from them, but also for pleasure and curiosity. The first to study the sky by taking on two parallel tracks, were the Greeks, the fact is noted in a scientific and rational, but also in a poetic way. Unfortunately today was stressed during the meeting, has lost the habit of setting the sky and the stars and has become increasingly difficult both because of the frenzied pace that today's society imposes on us, but also because the man go ahead with the years with the advent of modernity, as new technologies has placed a barrier between himself and the sky made of artificial lights, huge buildings, smog is what 'more, the irony of the thing is that now that we have more information about the cosmos, there we are away. The speech continued talking in a very superficial and general, as indeed it was inevitable to do given the limited time available, that of Dante in his "Divine Comedy" God has placed in the sky, more particularly in the empyrean, which But in fact, as highlighted by the speaker is a kind of all over the place, a parallel universe, a spiritual place, out of time and space. Also in relation to the relationship that exists between man and heaven, it examined the figure of the melancholic (before dell'accezione given to him by the Romantics), which represents the genius, the artist, the man who is both deeply rooted in the earthly passions, deciduous, but at the same time has a speculative mind that projects into the cosmos, then he becomes the means that connects earth and sky.
We find a cosmic element in Tasso, in fact, in his "Jerusalem Delivered" the conflict between Christians and Muslims is first of all, the conflict between angels and demons.
The meeting was then concluded that the universe has its own history, it has evolved, it has changed over the years man has gradually realized by cutting the ancient belief that heaven was something still and perfect.
