Festival della Bellezza

Dario Fabbri, Umberto Galimberti, Arianna Porcelli Safonov, Coca Puma

03.06 - 04.06.2026

Artists
Dario Fabbri
Umberto Galimberti
Arianna Porcelli Safonov
Coca Puma

For two evenings, Villa Medici is delighted to host the thirteenth edition of the Festival della Bellezza, which this year focuses on the theme “Il Simbolico”.

Four exceptional guests will take over the Bosco terrace for the festival: playwright Arianna Porcelli Safonov, musician Coca Puma, psychoanalyst Umberto Galimberti, and journalist Dario Fabbri. Offering breathtaking views of the Eternal City, the Bosco terrace provides a unique setting for this artistic and literary gathering under the Roman sky.

Umberto Galimberti “The Mystery of Beauty: Between Wonder and Symbolism” – June 3, 7:30 pm
Beauty is a symbol. A surplus of meaning, a heightened depth of meaning.
A marvel that overwhelms.
A reference to another dimension where the sensible and suprasensible converge.

Coca Puma concert – June 3 at 9:30 p.m.
The artist will perform on his only summer date with a special duo concert for the Festival della Bellezza on the spectacular terrace of Villa Medici à Rome.
Sinuous, sensitive architectural crossroads, rhythmic trajectories, dynamically balanced timbres.
Vibrations that seduce and transform in sound spaces to be traversed.

Lecture by Dario Fabbri “Symbols and the destiny of peoples” – June 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Thoughts in motion, myths conveying fears and ambitions, collective psychologies, biohistorical memories: ethnography of beliefs and aspirations, aggregated ideas and perceptions that trace the course of events.
The world observed through different points of view.
A broader vision, beyond myopia, to explore who we are and where we’re going.

Arianna Porcelli Safonov’s monologue “The Twelve Consternations” – June 4 at 9:30pm
Sarcastic stellar influences on unconscious contemporary humans.

Festival della Bellezza
From May to October, the Festival della Bellezza will take place at 25 symbolic sites of Italy’s historic and artistic heritage, from the 6th century BC to the 20th century, including the Arena and Roman Theatre of Verona, Il Vittoriale, the temples of Selinunte, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. It offers performances and reflections on art in art venues with representatives of national and international culture, who take part in original events related to the theme of the festival edition. Guests over the years have included Ennio Morricone, Catherine Deneuve, Alessandro Baricco, Patti Smith, Philippe Daverio, David Grossman, Ute Lemper, Massimo Cacciari, Fanny Ardant, Francesco De Gregori, Alessandro Barbero, Dacia Maraini, Umberto Galimberti, Alessandra Ferri, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Paolo Sorrentino.

Dario Fabbri

Dario Fabbri (Rome, August 26, 1978) is an Italian journalist and geopolitical analyst, founder and editor-in-chief of the monthly geopolitical magazine Domino. He has contributed to Italian(Gnosis, Limes and Scenari) and international(Conflits) magazines, and has written for Italy Daily (the Italian supplement of theInternational Herald Tribune), La Stampa and Il Riformista.

Umberto Galimberti

Umberto Galimberti (born May 2, 1942 in Monza) is an Italian psychologist, essayist and psychoanalyst, as well as a journalist with La Repubblica.
A supporter of phenomenological psychiatry and a member of the Order of Psychologists, he specializes in psychotherapy. His major contribution concerns the study of symbolic thought, considered to be the primordial and most authentic foundation of the human psyche, followed by logico-metaphysical thought and rational thought.

Arianna Porcelli Safonov

Arianna Porcelli Safonov was born in Rome and graduated in Literature and Philosophy, with a specialization in the history of costume. She has lived in New York and Madrid and worked for ten years organizing international events, traveling extensively until 2010, when she decided to leave her position as project manager to devote herself fully to writing. In 2011, she moved to Madrid, where she collaborated with several contemporary theater and improvisation companies. In 2014, she returned to Italy and published two books with Fazi Editore: Fottuta Campagna and Storie di Matti. Since 2008, she has been active on the humorous news blog Madame Pipì, and since 2014 she has been traveling the world with several projects of satire and humorous criticism of Italian social mores: Plagues, Il...

Coca Puma

Coca Puma, stage name of Costanza Puma, is a Roman artist born in 1998, with a hybrid and atypical musical identity, blending dream pop, nu-soul, electronica, ambient and post-rock. Her music is a balance between metropolis and nature, with a free and experimental artistic approach. Having grown up listening to soul and R’n’B, she is an avid vinyl collector and today draws her inspiration from Joy Orbison, Tame Impala and Brazilian music. Her interest in the relationship between sound and image has led her to compose music for cinema and advertising jingles. She worked on the soundtracks for La Rivoluzione siamo Noi and Luce sul Piemonte, as well as the music for Quasi a casa, a film produced by Sacher Film, Vivo Film and Rai Cinema. She has performed on prestigious stages...