February 2017: “Wagner and Philosophy” is held at La Sapienza University in Rome. Aurelio Canonici is invited to talk about Wagner and his use of the Leitmotiv. Other speech were given by some of the most important Italian musicologists, germanists and philosophers (Quirino Principe, Sandro Cappelletto, Elio Franzini, Enrico Fubini, Antonio Rostagno, Giuseppe Di Giacomo etc.).