Carlo Mattioli
"Aigues mortes"
1977
Inspired to the lesson of the masters of the imaginal, from Paracelso and Bruno, to Corbin and Hillman this website intends to present the legacy of works, thoughts, knowledge and initiatives oriented towards an itinerary of care and intensification of seeing, with the aim of
mending the disorientation of the thought and of the images in our society, with the aspiration of diffusing an imaginal comprehension from which a stronger responsibility towards Earth and
Cosmos can springand to propose an education methodology which discloses in art, in hermetic philosophy, in alchemy and in some modern theory devoted to the function of the sight as deep feeling, the guides for this transformation.
“…Make me thy lyre, ev'n as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit                                                          [fierce,
My spirit! be thou me, impetuous one!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new                                                          [birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among                                                          [mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far                                                          [behind?”
      P.B.Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
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