Video interview by Fabio Finotti with Luca Badini Confalonieri, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Turin and Manzonian scholar, on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the writing of the ode “Cinque Maggio” by Alessandro Manzoni. Badini Confalonieri helps us discover themes and connections in Manzoni’s ode that have been ingrained in the history of culture since the Napoleonic era.