(Adnkronos) - “Il premio normalmente lo facciamo fuori dall’Italia. Stati Uniti, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Brasile, tutti posti dove gli italiani di origine neanche parlano più italiano ma dove vi sono personalità che hanno contribuito in importante allo sviluppo della civiltà occidentale e del Centro-America. Ritrovare la forza del passato per il presente e per il futuro potrebbe essere vitale per la nostra gente", lo ha dichiarato, Nino Foti, presidente Fondazione Magna Grecia, in occasione della consegna del Premio Internazionale a Roma, presso la Galleria Doria-Pamphilj.
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00:00It is the first time that we do this conference of the International Award for Greece in Italy,
00:09which we normally do in the countries we have done in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil,
00:16in all places where Italians of origin, we are talking about those who often do not even speak Italian,
00:25with their language, have this need to find and recognize their roots.
00:30We have given this award, for example, to the governor of New York State, George Bataglia,
00:35to the President of the Argentine Republic, and many other personalities who are in these countries,
00:41who have contributed significantly to the development of those civilizations,
00:46both Western and Central and South America.
00:51We have given this award to those who, with their life, not with a simple action or work,
00:58have made the recognition and the finding of their roots an important phase of their life.
01:08It is fundamental because finding and returning to the places where their ancestors have left their mark,
01:17which is still possible today, is important, and keep in mind that it is also for those who,
01:22because culture, and therefore also the way of life, is not a geographical concept, it is a cultural concept.
01:28So, to think that in the 1700s all these illustrious writers,
01:34who later became the basis of world culture, like Goethe, Berkeley, and many others,
01:41came to South Italy with their carriages to discover the environment, the monuments, the historical places,
01:49the archaeological places, imagine the studies of Eleanor Mann,
01:53who is the only historian of the 1800s on the Magna Graecia,
01:57who, digging in the areas, which today is a park of Crotone e Sibare,
02:02the place where, for example, Eric was buried, where Otto was buried,
02:07to return to these places and update the message for the present, but above all for the future,
02:13in a moment in which we live not only the crises that we live in the whole West, but a little all over the planet.
02:20Finding the strength of the past for the present and for the future could be fundamental for our people.