A show of words and poetry that recovers a significant literary memory, from its origins to the present day, through a “verse against verse” format focused on the infinite nuances of the noblest of feelings. This is Declarations of love. Skirmishes in point of poetry, staged at the Palazzo dei Duchi di Santo Stefano di Taormina on Friday 28 July, at 21:30, as part of the Taormina Arte festival. A show that will take place “only once” – as the performers are keen to underline – without repetitions, therefore, dedicated to the public with and without a soul mate, to awaken the beauty of the soul in love through the declamation of some of the most daring and passionate authors such. Beatrice Venezi and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco have in fact chosen a repertoire that includes names such as Dino Campana, Sivilla Aleramo, Ibn Hamdis, Catullo, Manlio Sgalambro, Gesualdo Bufalino, Sergio Claudio Perroni, Ibn Al-Tūbī with a finale, intimately in the dark, dedicated to the reproposition joint dialogue of Cyrano de Bergerac with Roxane. The rhythm of the two bystanders in love combat will be broken by the notes of Etta Scollo, of which the musical version of a significant Sicilian poem from the year 1000 will be re-proposed, Un solo baci, contained in the anthology of poets edited by Francesca Corrao.