Inspire
Stories of dreams and perseverance 21 October and 4 November 2025
In recent years, we have been inundated with news of wars, epidemics and tragedies, which have only served to fuel our anxiety and fear of the future. This is why it is important to remember and tell inspiring stories that remind us of men and women who overcame adversity and obstacles through the strength of their dreams.
This is exactly the aim of this series of meetings: to tell the story of two people who, through faith in their dreams, have reached places they never imagined.
With Lorenzo Baravalle.
Irene Curie
withLorenzo Baravalle
- Tuesday 21 October 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30
**Irene Curie** is the daughter of the much more famous Marie, an extraordinary scientist who won two Nobel Prizes, but who was a strict and distant mother. Irene's has been spent chasing the myth, in the hope of honouring the surname she bears. During a brief break from the front, she met and married Frederic Joliot, with whom she would fail to notice two sensational scientific discoveries. Just when Irene believed she was the laughing stock of the international scientific community, she happened upon a discovery that would change the destiny of all: artificial radioactivity, the first link in the long chain that will lead to the atomic bomb. They resisted in France, misleading the Nazis in order to prevent the atomic bomb from falling into Hitler's hands. It is a story of self-affirmation, but also of the self-confidence that comes with perseverance.
Sergio Leone
with Lorenzo Baravalle
- Tuesday 4 November 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30
**Sergio Leone** is a director who created a genre. He taught epic Homeric poetry to a nation that didn't know it, and he created an imaginary world for a country that hadn't yet encountered its past. Yet he did all of this with very little: the deserts of Spain, an actor rejected by everyone, a language that combines Celine and Gadda, and classical music composed by a friend, which became the soundtrack to everyone's life. But it was his last film that truly revealed the man he was: Once Upon a Time in America. They told him to give up and change his plans, but he preferred to remain faithful to his dream. Once Upon a Time in America is not a gangster film, but a Homeric epic. Sergio Leone's story is told through his films, with a cathartic focus on his last masterpiece, the epitome of a story that can convey resilience and belief in one's dreams.
