Rome, April 28. (LaPresse) – “To take weapons out of one’s hands and put a book in one’s hands”. This is the message of culture and the Strega Prize, which President Sergio Mattarella emphasized during his meeting at the Quirinale Palace with the Prize delegation, marking the 80th anniversary of its founding. Mattarella emphasized the “significant” moment for an award born “just a year after the birth of the Republic.” As for the message metaphorically launched by the award with its birth, after the Second World War, “it is truly a message that has contributed not only, urging and urging people to read and therefore reflect, to think, to try to understand, decisively to the construction of the new Italy. We feel the need for it even in this period, again and very intensely: that of an invitation to read and reflect, to try to understand events and how to avoid temptation.”I would like to add, if I may make a joke – he continues – that if some of the world’s powerful people instead of cultivating improbables and imagining autobiographies devoted themselves to reading we would probably all have a great benefit. But this is the role of the Strega Prize and so the exhibition was a great initiative to illustrate its history. To give a sense of how it has accompanied these decades of our country.”
Mattarella, more books and fewer weapons: “If powerful people read, we would benefit.”
Rome, April 28. (LaPresse) – “To take weapons out of one’s hands and put a book in one’s hands”. This is the message of culture and the Strega Prize, which President Sergio Mattarella emphasized during his meeting at the Quirinale Palace with the Prize delegation, marking the 80th anniversary of its founding. Mattarella emphasized the “significant” moment for an award born “just a year after the birth of the Republic.” As for the message metaphorically launched by the award with its birth, after the Second World War, “it is truly a message that has contributed not only, urging and urging people to read and therefore reflect, to think, to try to understand, decisively to the construction of the new Italy. We feel the need for it even in this period, again and very intensely: that of an invitation to read and reflect, to try to understand events and how to avoid temptation.”I would like to add, if I may make a joke – he continues – that if some of the world’s powerful people instead of cultivating improbables and imagining autobiographies devoted themselves to reading we would probably all have a great benefit. But this is the role of the Strega Prize and so the exhibition was a great initiative to illustrate its history. To give a sense of how it has accompanied these decades of our country.”
