BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Visit Borghetto Santo Spirito//Eventi//IT CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:darwins-crime-by-and-with-telmo-pievani@visitborghetto.it DTSTAMP:20260917T005421Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260718T213000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260718T230000 SUMMARY:“Darwin’s Crime” by and with Telmo Pievani DESCRIPTION:The appointment with Telmo Pievani \, following the presentatio n of his book at 6:00 PM ( https://visitborghetto.it/eventi/telmo-pievani- presenta-uniti-per-la-vita-storie-di-simbiosi-e-cooperazione ) returns at 9:30 PM with the Teatro nel Borgo festival\, in the evocative setting of t he historic Cinema Vittoria arena \, with the show “Darwin’s Crime. Story of a Dreadful Secret”\, written and performed by philosopher and evolution ist Telmo Pievani. The show tells the years in which Darwin\, returning fr om his voyage on the Beagle\, kept his revolutionary theory hidden for twe nty years\, torn between his discoveries and his fear of upsetting Victori an society. There is a secret in the life of the greatest English naturali st. He was still a boy when he returned with the Beagle from his voyage ar ound the world in 1836. An initiation among the oceans\, a coming-of-age n ovel. In his head\, many observations\, many memories\, visions\, terrible seasickness and an idea that emerges\, revolutionary. He writes it down i n London in certain small notebooks and it grows\, increasingly burdensome : the tree of life\, or rather the coral\; natural selection\; we are all relatives\, down to the humblest worm\; no Providence has brought us here. A single great network binds all living things together. But how can he t ell others? Another five-year journey\, entirely mental this time\, and by 1841 the notebooks are finished: the theory of evolution has been conceiv ed. And so Charles Darwin makes his choice: he decides to keep his notes s ecret\, even from his wife Emma\, in a drawer\, forever. He even packages them for a posthumous edition\, adding a heartbreaking letter. He is afrai d of the consequences\, mind you not from the Church (he came from two sec ular and libertine families)\, but from society and his colleagues. They w on’t take it well\, the dethroning of man from the center of nature. No\, they won’t take it well at all. Better to keep quiet\, devote himself to o ther things\, to geology\, to barnacles. In contumacy. For twenty years tw o Darwins will exist: the public one\, the darling of English science\, an d the private one\, the materialist revolutionary\, in his refuge in Kent. To a friend\, in 1844\, he will let slip a word and confess that he has c ommitted a “crime”\, an assassination to be precise\, but he will not add further details. He knows that the hiding will not be able to last forever . Sooner or later he will be discovered. He vomits every morning. He begin s to exchange letters with a naturalist younger than him\, Alfred R. Walla ce\, lost among the spice islands\, and understands with dismay that he ha s independently arrived at the same conclusions. Revelation at this point is inevitable and it will be a drama\, not without comedy. The solemn anno uncement of Darwin and Wallace’s revolutionary theory\, on July first 1858 at the Linnean Society\, in the midst of London’s great stench\, will rec eive no attention. He escapes to take spa treatments. When he is already 5 0 years old\, in thirteen months he will write his masterpiece\, The Origi n of Species\, but this is a story everyone knows. A breathtaking show abo ut Darwin’s little-known history before he became Darwin\, the sad icon wi th the long white beard we study in school. A portrait of Victorian Englan d through the fears\, the torments\, the illuminations and the reluctances of an antihero\, hypochondriac and mild. While locomotives clang\, canals open\, steam engines come to life\, a lonely man understands the laws of evolution and is frightened. A parade of characters brushes past him\, fro m Samuel Coleridge to Benjamin Franklin\, from Alexander von Humboldt to C harles Dickens\, from Thomas Malthus to Alfred Tennyson. A theatrical stor y unbeknownst to him\, with plot twists and a tragicomic ending. Telmo Pie vani Evolutionist\, philosopher of science\, Darwin historian\, essayist\, he teaches Philosophy of Biological Sciences in the Department of Biology at the University of Padova and is a visiting scientist at the American M useum of Natural History in New York. From 2017 to 2019 he was President o f the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology. Author of 375 publications\ , translated into many languages\, his best-known books are: Darwin (Later za\, 2012)\; Imperfezione (Cortina\, 2019)\; Finitudine (Cortina\, 2020)\; Serendipità (Cortina\, 2021)\; La natura è più grande di noi (Solferino\, 2022)\; Tutti i mondi possibili (Cortina\, 2024). Member of important sci entific societies and the Editorial Board of international journals\, he d irects the Pikaia and Lucy sui Mondi portals. Winner of 17 awards\, author of books for children on evolution\, together with Banda Osiris\, the “De producers” collective\, Marco Paolini and Cristiano Godano\, he is the cre ator of theatrical and musical projects on scientific themes. From 2024 he brings to the stage “Nomadic – Canto per la biodiversità”\, written and c reated together with Gianni Maroccolo\, directed by Mariano De Tassis. He collaborates with Il Corriere della Sera and with the magazines Le Scienze and Micromega. He has curated and introduced several works and selections of letters by Charles Darwin\, including the “Notebooks on Transmutation” (Laterza\, 2008). In 2026 his author’s translation of The Origin of Speci es for Einaudi will be released. The Teatro nel Borgo Festival returns on Friday July 24 at 9:30 PM with Oblivion \, with the show “Oblivion Collect ion” . The shows are free admission\, subject to available seating. No res ervation required.\n\nhttps://visitborghetto.it/eventi/darwins-crime-by-an d-with-telmo-pievani LOCATION:Cinema Arena Vittoria — Via Marexiano\, 36/R/36 URL:https://visitborghetto.it/eventi/darwins-crime-by-and-with-telmo-pievan i STATUS:CONFIRMED BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Promemoria: “Darwin’s Crime” by and with Telmo Pievani TRIGGER:-P1D END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR