Caparezza is one of the few things that makes me proud to be italian 🇮🇹

This song have an amazing concept: Caparezza is impersonating Filippo Argenti a real-life character that Dante inserted into the divine comedy. Filippo was know for his violent behavei and Dante hate him so he put Filippo in the Hell. So in this song Filippo (Caparezza) write back a sort of dissing to take "revenge" on Dante because Filippo couldn't respond to the poet's rhymes. The second meaning of the song is the the second meaning is the clash between violence and non-violence where Filippo embodies the violence Its incredible that you understeand the most of the song whitout any explanations! i'm not very fluent in english i hope you understeand what i said :)

As an italian metalhead I love this song dearly, it's great seeing you appreciate this song too!

You mentioned Dadaism which is interesting because Caparezza also made a song “comunque dada” that’s about Dadaism! You should check it out :D

The album this song is taken from, "Museica", is an imaginary tour through a museum of art and culture, with each song depicting Caparezza's personal interpretation of a famous piece. This song takes inspiration from Dante's "Divina Commedia" (a book about Dante himself traveling through the Afterlife), the Inferno part especially. In Dante's imagination Filippo Argenti, an actually existed person in Dante's times and enemy of the latter, is forever punished in hell and Dante writes about enjoying watching him suffer. Caparezza puts himself into Filippo's shoes and writes a dissing track directed to Dante, lamenting the fact that he made him known forever as cruel and temperamental. The title itself "Argenti vive" is a pun referring both to Filippo's surname and the Italian expression "avere l'argento vivo addosso" (which literally translates into "wearing the shiniest silver" and means "being lively/full of life"), a bitterly ironical association. I can comment on all the puns and hidden meanings in the song if you want, but this is a whole lot of information already. Hope this helps, and thank you for giving a shot at one our best music artists! ☺️

Dante also writes to describe Filippo Argenti as having "fists like iron." This is a personal discussion in which Caparezza wants to give Argenti the chance to respond to Dante. While Dante's phrase "You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge" is beautiful in theory, Dante seems to revel in punishing his enemies in Hell. This suggests that the world, in reality, belongs to the violent. Phlegyas is a ferryman who helps Dante and Virgil cross the River Styx, where the violent are punished in a way that mirrors their lives, with violence as their only recourse.

This song is a real masterpiece, a perfect mix between rap, industrial metal like Rammstein and tons of culture. Caparezza chased Dante and it wasn't so easy. Not italian people maybe can't catch the whole and incredible job behind this song, full of creative rhymes and very difficult word games. A monument as all the album Museica 🤘🇮🇹🎼

the first thing you can't get the prelude is a part of the "Divina Commedia" of Dante Alighieri when he met the 3 beasts and Virgilio their guide in the Hell and Purgatory

SONG :Prisoner 709- Mica Van Gogh (Caparezza)

Yoir videos are amazing, btw tue title of the song is not translatable on "silver linings" but more on Pun on quicksilver and the main subject of the song (Filippo Argenti) who was the bully basically of Dante Alighieri, the writer of the Divina Commedia

if you've never heard it, listen to "La Fitta Sassaiola dell'ingiuria" it's one of the first :D

Cant wait to see more, if you like metal in the album "Prisoner 7092 he was more metal but Caparezza never stop trying new stuff, the last album "Exuvia" feels totaly different like Alternative Hip Hop and new generation Rap

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I see in the previous comments that a lot of insightful things have already been said. I would comment on "silver-lining", though. From what has transpired from the comments below, I'm sure you no longer think that that's the correct translation. Argenti does refer to silver, but not in any direct way. Argenti was a reasonably powerful family in medieval Florence, so that's all. To lead it back to silver, the name supposedly came from the founder of the family shoeing his horse with silver horseshoes. I'm sure actual Italians could explain it better. I'm just a Swedish tourist who got hooked on Caparezza after buying a bootleg on the beach. Viva, viva, viva - la gente positiva!

In the beginning, Caparezza quotes Vergil (or rather the words that Dante Alighieri puts in his mouth), saying "return to your swamp, together with the other damned". It's pretty harsh considering that Filippo Argenti probably was an annoying (and perhaps rich and flashy) neighbour to Dante.

flegias is both a greek mithology character and a divine comedy character. "In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Phlegyas ferries Virgil and Dante across the river Styx which is portrayed as a marsh where the wrathful and sullen lie within Hell's Circle of Wrath."(wikipedia)

I feel silly for commenting early (I was interrupted in watching the clip). The translation explains everything. Almost. I could comment that "Ghibbelines" refer to a viking clan known as the "dogs" that was to a larger degree anchored to Scandinavia (although at this time it was a mere historical aside), where as the Ghuelfs ("wolfs") represented a clan that penetrated south earlier. The actual conquests and migrations that this refers to happened some 600 years earlier (approx., I'm no expert). It's quite confusing since norsemen that took to living in present-day Hungary moved to the north of Italy around 700 in a deal with the pope to become christian and stop pillaging. That is why Lombardia is called as it is (from Langobardi, the ones with long beards). After they gracefully agreed to become christian they founded their capital, present day Udine (named after Odin). Yet another wave of Scandinavians washed over Italy with the Normands (litt. men from the north) that had acquired Normandy in northern France after Rollo agreed not to burn Paris to the ground. The Normands quickly became French (in language (sort of), if not in culture). From here different ventures took them to Italy (among other places) which can be evidenced by place names such as Manfredonia as well as the strange presence of tall redhaired people in the west of Sicily.

His energy is like a virus, Number 1 from my nation no doubt 💪🏽🗿

ommmygod if you like when caparezza goes metal I hope you listened to "prisoner 709"