February 13, 2006: Roberto Benigni, invited to Terni, reads the Song of Songs. It begins with a speech a bit 'long but very exciting: a hope in the words of this genius of comedy to those who are not afraid to love!
O friends in love, I am pleased to inaugurate the Valentinian love of this city that made me fall in love. Why is this city of Saint Valentine has given me so much love, and so on and so forth, and who has not less so forth.
I immediately accepted this invitation with eroticism, because it speaks of love, and is something that has enveloped me immediately. When Don Straw, his Excellency, I have mentioned, why do not you come to the Song of Songs in Terni? Is that all? Now! It 's like to go for the book of Job in Amelia. I come now because I just wrapped up this love, and why Don Straw is a man full of love.
And then this is the right city: I have shot many films there, they were Americans and I'd say come in the city of San Valentino!
So I'm just delighted to open This "falling in love Valentino" and I immediately accepted the invitation of his brother, dear friend, Don Straw, when he asked me to do the Song of Songs, a book that is sublime, is the basis, the most remarkable books of the moment Bible.
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Let 's talk of Jesus Christ that we want all of us so well.
The Song of Songs is a history of long him. E 'was attributed to Solomon, though in reality has nothing to do. But it was included among the books of wisdom, because it is an inspiring book. For this is the Bible. Why does it take to be the inspiration in the Bible, God gives the inspiration to write, and God makes it true. Why God willingly is inspired by those who have inspired. So inspired someone - we do not know who he is - who has written a jewel of beauty, right in the middle of the Bible.
You know, like when religious paintings in the dark you see things, then suddenly comes the Primavera by Botticelli.
In this book chastity dancing with the beauty and sensuality. The Bible is an extraordinary book because it is religious, and sensual, erotic, full of love. There is the luxury of spreading the seed of life everywhere. For love of luxury needs, needs space, it feeds on itself, did not like anything that's not him.
see the Pope, had to solve all the problems of the world and has made an encyclical called "God is love", and solved them all.
love this thing that be?
will be something that was born when Jesus Christ came, who is the inventor of love: how can you tell me?
Jesus, that man has made truly extraordinary, something to love him, by bowing seriously. When Jesus Christ came before everything became man so that man might become God in his face We became the second person of the trinity. It was a sin and that he could not have carried all the sins of the world, could not die and was made to kill. And then he invented love, love disinterested, the pure feeling. You will say there was before. Certainly, electricity, radio waves were already there, but if there was someone who stigmatized, and said "these are" nobody knew. And Jesus Christ has made clear just what love is, the pure feeling, he just explained what love, charity, the pure feeling. The Sermon on the Mount is inoltrepassabile. No one can drive over the feeling. The first selfless love of Jesus Christ simply not there. There was first the selfless love, and this is something impressive. Quell'omo do not know who was there, but really was exceptional. We were just growing, that man there. With the parables, the things he did, he has matured, go ahead millions of years. Like when the family arrives in the Gospels, and he said no, this is my family, one of my disciples.
Because at some point we grow up, leave home. He taught us to love even in the most basic doctrines.
The mother-in-law! He taught us to love even the mother-in-law!
You know they say that the first miracle of Jesus - according to John - is the transformation water into wine at the wedding at Cana? But in the Gospel of Mark, which is also a wonderful foreword by Don Straw, the first miracle of Jesus know what it is? Jesus meets Peter: "I will make you fishers of souls," he says, then goes to home because he is hungry. And Peter says, "and I know, but unfortunately I've got the mother-in-law sick in bed." And Jesus, he was hungry, he says: "Are you sure? It goes a bit 'to see if it's really sick. "But the mother-in-law is fine and ready to eat. And I understood why. Why the Bible is, in the book of Ruth, is the story of a mother-in-law: Ruth chooses to go with the mother-in-law, that is his real family, Ruth was born and the family of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was born because Ruth is left with the mother-in-law, because the generation that Ruth gleaned the wheat - and I with my mother, I gleaned much grain! how many times I seemed to be in the book of Ruth - was born Jesus, who is the inventor of love and charity.
Jesus was not afraid of the passions, of feeling. Indulge in passions that distort everything.
Love is a subversive sense that distorts all that scary.
Jesus has never stopped at nothing, and pick the people, this will be the person. It 's so when you fall in love. The tenderness and love together are rare. If one reads the Canzoniere of Petrarch, but there is no love so tenderly. You fall in love, but there is no love, and that's essential. All religions and even the Bible say: be fruitful and multiply, which means: eat and make love. They know that even in the Vatican "for non-copula the dome is depopulated, so this is a law divine. It 'a passionate love that comes from the creation of the earth, from the book of Genesis. In the Song of Songs is invoked as an act of supreme love of life, a feeling that embraces all humankind. There is invoked, and Paul of Tarsus, in his first letter to the Corinthians, from 13.1 to 3 writes "As I take in my work account, and have not love I am nothing." St. Paul said this, think how much it has done, St. Paul!
So you think the feeling of love that has been important in the roots in Christianity, this invention spectacular, that we should not be taken lightly. And click a person as Jesus chose his apostles, and died for them was made by Peter betray precisely because they can only betray what we are extraordinarily loyal, it was almost a test, an extraordinary moment. And select a person, you become great, you go near to God, this is the person I chose, with her bodily ritmerò my hand with her looking in the same direction. When you love is a feeling that you can not stand. Being in love is our normal condition. It should be like we always feel that our happiness depends only on the happiness of that person. this is an emotion that can crush the entire world. Not is no force that can stand up to this feeling, and that Jesus Christ taught us, and we find this in the Song of Songs, because of course it takes two things: sensuality and tenderness. St. Augustine prayed to the Lord when he converted with his immense faith and wrote: "Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not immediately."
Then there are many things that you do not understand the world, on the other hand, a God who says God is not no one can speak of God but God, yes, we can talk.
Who believes and who does not believe it is not much difference, so even those that do not have to believe in so many miracles that are no less of others.
Song of Solomon, Don Straw gave me to read and I thank him because I've been thrown back into my eyes and I was moved by emotion, is composed of dialogue: dialogue with the bride dell'Innamorata the groom, wonderful: she speaks and he speaks with a modern form, extraordinary. Of course they are also symbolic, because as we all know the wisdom books that you have read the essay with an eye to other meanings, but then doing it all the way back to the simplicity of the first meaning, and then the words of Dante's Divine Comedy: "O you who have the brainpower healthy, targeting the doctrine that conceals itself behind the veil of the mysterious verses!". There is always the meanings, then at the beginning thought it was the call of God with Israel, then there was the interpretation of St. Paul who is of course the love of Jesus for the Church. But the best part is that of Jesus to humanity. This character is so wonderful that he became man, but what I mean? I remember as a kid, I wanted to send to school in Florence at a time when there was a flood. In 1966, I was thirteen, I ran away from the convent and found myself in Santa Maria Novella and I found myself with legs on a bench all filthy, and there was a fresco by Masaccio: Jesus Christ crucified. When I saw him, a face, a beauty, was identical to my uncle Peppino, a farmer from Arezzo. Excavated, with a little 'beard. Just a man, the last of the men and I said: but look, this is God: it looks like is reduced. With the clothes that came down from the belly to show the humanity. More men could not. Here, he became man for us to become God, that we are suffering, there is no grace without pain. Do not understand anything, as the book of Job, because the whole world is an enigma. But on one thing clear quest'enigma there, and it is this spark of love that God has given us the woman with the Madonna. A figure that one takes lightly. The Madonna! The cult of the Virgin Mary - who came around 1100 - it was wonderful for all women.
Before then women were either the rest of the warrior or witches. The cult of the Madonna has made them become great, did men bow before them. What a wonderful, spectacular. I am reminded of another picture, Lippi, Madonna with the fleeing of the announcement, so everything that she is humanity personified. That is all he has to do with love has to do with all that is highest in the world there is.
Now I want to read this Song of Songs, wishing you a wonderful start to the festivities Valentinian to all couples, of course, happiness in Goduria most spectacular in tenderness and sexuality. And I want to read this gem that was given to humanity, including a rabbi of the second century AD said: "The entire universe is not worth the day it was given to humanity the Song of Songs."
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