Trascrizione
We are in the Hall of Literature and Philosophy, which, like that of Medicine on the floor below, belonged to the aristocratic houses that were incorporated into the Hospitium Bovis at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and in the Palazzo del Bo a hundred years later.
In the Twentieth century a fresco entitled Dispute on the immortality of the soul was added here. Standing in the centre, the protagonists of a long discussion that developed in the Sixteenth century. The University defended the opinions of one of its professors, Pietro Pomponazzi, on the left - according to Pomponazzi it is not true that there is an immortal soul.
But who is the figure that seems to be falling from the sky right behind him? That's Prometheus, a character from Greek mythology famous for stealing fire from the gods and for giving it to men. It represents freedom of thought, for example that of a scholar who defies tradition, just as Pomponazzi had done.