Milan - In Santa Maria delle Grazie, 2.000 people was sitting on the floor to listen to a lesson about Dante Alighieri. Vittorio Sermonti was the wonderful teacher. Professionals, workers, "housewives", students, were there all together, to learn about the Purgatorio. It was beautiful to see that people want to know better about the greatest Italian poet of the Middleage. But it is also a new mass phenomenon. And it is not easy to understand what does it mean. Surely it is not religiuos fundamentalism! It is a sort of historical view of the world that people is looking for. And this is very, very good for the future of Italy. [Luca De Biase]