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THE "G7 CULTURE" IN NAPLES

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Naples  ||  | 19 September 2024
Iniziative (EN) - Maison de la Paix (EN)

The "G7 Culture" took place in Naples. The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, welcomed delegations to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples to take part in the work of the G7 Culture in the Royal Palace.
After a tour of the museum, led by the Director General of Museums, Massimo Osanna, the maestro Gabriele Lavia, a legend of theatre and cinema, performed before the statue of Hercules Farnese a moving reading in Latin of a passage from "De Reditu Suo" by Rutilio Namaziano. Giovanni Pascoli's Italian translation and the English version were projected onto four large monitors at the sides of the stage to allow everyone to grasp the universal message of the work.
Also present at the Mann were, among others, Undersecretaries Lucia Borgonzoni and Gianmarco Mazzi, the President of the Cultural Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Federico Mollicone, the President of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, and the Mayor of the city, Gaetano Manfredi.
Minister Giuli then took the floor, representing the Latin poet's ‘Rome’ as a synthesis of everything we mean by "culture" today: "Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus unam, You have given one homeland to peoples scattered in a hundred places,’ the Minister recalled, ‘only culture can succeed in this. And today, to our distinguished guests of the G7, we say: welcome home".
The Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, then presented the "Two Years of Ukrainian Resistance" medal to Mykola Tochytskyi, Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, during the opening session of the G7 Ministerial.
"It is not only a sign of closeness and respect - said Giuli - but also a sign of an overall project to help Ukraine. The proceeds from the sales of the medal will go to support the activities of the children's hospital in Lviv, which is committed to the treatment and care of Ukrainian children affected by the war".
Minister Giuli also donated the medal to the other G7 representatives, in recognition of their commitment to support Ukraine and to encourage them to work together to defend the cultural identity of a nation whose cultural heritage has also been attacked and affected.
The medal, struck in the workshops of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, was strongly desired by the Italian government to celebrate the resistance of the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion.
Members of the delegations visited the United States of the World headquarters and the Museum of Peace, welcomed by Secretary-General Michele Capasso.