ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The moment is significant, we start at the 80th anniversary of the award, and then just a year after the birth of the Republic and coeva at the Constitution. We must be really grateful to Maria Bellonci and Guido Alberti to have chosen, involving different pieces of society and culturally sensitive people, to accompany the start of the new Italy with the decisive contribution of culture, literature, narrative, at that time, to take away the weapons and put in hands a book. This is really a message that not only urged us to reflect, think, try to understand, but contributed decisively to the construction of the new Italy”. This was said by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, receiving in the afternoon at the Quirinale a delegation of the Strega Prize, led by the president of the Bellonci Foundation, Giovanni Solimine.
During the meeting was presented at Mattarella the celebratory exhibition of the eighteenth edition of the Strega Prize, curated by Maria Luisa Frisa and Mario Lupano, entitled “The years of the Strega Award”, scheduled at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome – MACRO. “We also feel the need at this time, particularly, again in a very intense way. The invitation to read, to reflect, to try to understand events and to escape temptations – continued the head of the state -. I would add, if I was allowed a joke, that if some powerful of the world, instead of growing improbable and imaginary autobiography, they would devote themselves to reading, we would probably all have a great benefit. This is the role of the Strega Prize and therefore it is a beautiful initiative the exhibition, to illustrate its history, to give the sense of how our country has accompanied in these decades”.
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