The artists Elisabetta Benassi, Giulio Bensasson, Silvia Giambrone, Rä di Martino, Numero Cromatico, Lulù Nuti, Luigi Ontani, Pietro Ruffo, Gabriele Silli, Marco Tirelli have donated to the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca the works exhibited in 2023 at the Galleria Mattia De Luca on the occasion of the exhibition The Wounds of Rome.

To celebrate this generous gesture, the Accademia presents, in the exhibition hall on the first floor from September 26 to October 25, 2025, a new edition of the exhibition The Wounds of Rome. Poets and artists reinterpret the history of the city.

The exhibition stems from a research project that involved ten artists and ten poets, called to reinterpret — with an imaginative and visionary gaze — ten traumatic events that have marked the history of Rome. 

From the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar to the burning of the city under Nero, from the murders of Cola di Rienzo and Beatrice Cenci to the convictions of Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno, the exhibition path winds its way to the 20th century, touching on the march on Rome, the Matteotti murder, and the tragic disappearance of two fundamental figures in Italian cultural and political history: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Aldo Moro.

Poems by: Silvia Bre, Franco Buffoni, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Vivian Lamarque, Valerio Magrelli, Tommaso Ottonieri, Gilda Policastro, Laura Pugno, Fabio Pusterla, and Lello Voce.