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ANNIVERSARIES AT THE MUSEUM: THE 600 YEARS OF THE DOME OF BRUNELLESCHI
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28 January 2020
The eleventh anniversary is dedicated to the 600 years since the construction of Brunelleschi's dome in Florence.
In the Museum, videos, images and documents on the dome are available and images, films, interviews and significant pages on the symbolic building of the City of Florence are projected.
“Brunelleschi's dome is still the largest masonry ever built today. With an octagonal base, its external diameter is 54.8 meters while the internal diameter is 45.5 meters. With this masterpiece, conventionally, the great season of Humanism and the Renaissance begins, "says architect president Michele Capasso, a scholar of Brunelleschi and the Dome.
The Dome is above all the symbol of the Universe, of its order and its beauty. For Christians it speaks of God and his reunification with men. Leon Battista Alberti was among the first admirers of the great work of Filippo Brunelleschi. The appreciations and studies on the Brunelleschi's Dome never stopped. Such is its charm that for generations the passion for understanding and explaining the 'machine' of the Dome continues to arouse lively debates among specialists.
The problem of "turning the dome" arose at the Santa Maria del Fiore Opera since 1418: invitations were made, tenders and consultations were requested, aware of the complex nature of the construction. It was a question of solving the octagon of the drum (the dome tax), inherited from Talenti, Benci di Cione, Giovanni d'Ambrogio and others, and of solving the greatest technical problem of the West of those decades. Finally in 1420 the choice fell on Filippo Brunelleschi. On 7 August of that year, construction work on the dome began to end, until the base of the lantern, on August 1, 1436. The lantern with a cone-shaped cover, designed by Brunelleschi, was built only after the death of the artist (1446) and the golden copper ball with the cross, by Andrea del Verrocchio, containing sacred relics, was placed in 1466.
NOT TO FORGET: THE MEMORIAL DAY AT THE MUSEUM
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27 January 2020
Like every year, the Museum of Peace held various events with school students and various groups of visitors on the occasion of the "Memorial Day".
In the Sala Israel - inaugurated by Shimon Peres - various videos were projected, some unpublished, too, on the Shoah and on the deportation of Jews to the various concentration camps.
Emotion and participation in particular by looking at the testimonies of Andra and Tatiana Bucci on the occasion of their visit to the Peace Museum. Their story is moving: daughters of a Jewish mother, in 1944 - when they were only 6 and 4 years old - they were deported to Auschwitz and survived.
Today Tatiana lives in Brussels, while Andra between the United States and Europe.
On this occasion, the book "Storia di Sergio" by Alessandra Viola, Andra Bucci and Tatiana Bucci was presented: the story of their Neapolitan cousin who died in concentration camps.
FILOMENA ZAMBOLI FIRMA IL FILOMENA ZAMBOLI SIGNS THE KIMIYYA MANIFESTO
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24 January 2020
Dr.ssa Filomena Zamboli, Secretary General of the Campania TAR, signed the Kimiyya Manifesto in defense of women.
THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO AND FEDERAZIONE ANNA LINDH ITALIA AMONG THE PROMOTERS OF THE ASSISI POSTER
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24 January 2020
The Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Federazione Anna Lindh Italia have signed the "Manifesto of Assisi" among the first and participated in the meeting in Assisi in the Papal Hall of the Sacred Convent.
Among the interventions those of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, of the Minister of University and Research, Gaetano Manfredi and of the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli. Among the promoters of the Manifesto are the president of the Symbola Foundation, Ermete Realacci, the Custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, father Mauro Gambetti, the director of San Francesco magazine, father Enzo Fortunato, the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini, that of Confindustria , Vincenzo Boccia, the CEO of Enel, Francesco Starace, and of Novamont, Catia Bastioli as well as the president of the Mediterranean Foundation, Michele Capasso.
"This manifesto, which then outlines a before and after for environmental policies in Italy, could not fail to start from Umbria because it is the result of the green awareness that both Assisi and this region have" said the director of the press room of the Sacro Convento, father Enzo Fortunato.
Umbria, for President Donatella Tesei, "represents a region where, by tackling these concepts, we can move from words to deeds".
January 24 in Assisi is for Realacci an appointment on the environment "stronger than that of the Davos World Economic Forum" because, he explained, "the Assisi Manifesto is a new and very Italian alliance that weaves a network between the economy, culture and research with the contribution of the best technological, institutional, political, social, cultural energies of the country ".
President Michele Capasso, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Fondazione Mediterraneo which coincides with today's day, underlined the importance of moving from a "system of measures" to a "system of values" in which "it is absolutely essential to build an economy and a more human-sized society capable of courageously facing the climate crisis, thanks to a new alliance between institutions, the economic world, politics, society and culture".
ANNIVERSARIES AT THE MUSEUM: 100 YEARS FROM THE BIRTH OF CHIARA LUBICH
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21 January 2020
The tenth anniversary is dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of Chiara Lubich's birth.
Many intellectuals and religious intervened in the multimedia rooms of the Museum where - in the section "The great protagonists of history" - videos, images and documents on Chiara are available: a woman who with gentleness and rigor has spread the Gospel and interreligious dialogue.
On this occasion, images, films, interviews and significant pages written by Chiara Lubich were screened.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATERIALS, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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20 January 2020
The Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Federazione Anna Lindh Italia participated in the international conference on materials, energy and the environment held at the El-Oued University.
The goal was to bring together researchers, professors and industrialists interested in technological and scientific advances in materials, sustainable energy and environmental protection. This first edition intends to gather appeals from all over the world for the environment and to create a collaboration between universities and industry for the transfer of high technology. To this end, the topics dealt with have been identified precisely to best meet emergencies on a planetary scale. Among the topics covered are:
- Topic 1: Renewable Energy Energy and environment; Phase change, energy transfer flows and processes; Optimization of energy systems; Fuel cells; Drying and porous media; Energy storage; Thermal and mass transfer; Energy management.
- Topic 2: Modeling of materials; Evaluation of materials; Characterization and behavior of materials; Nanotechnology; Materials for energy biomaterials and the environment; Energy storage and conversion.
- Topic 3: Mathematics in physics; Application of quantum mechanics on materials; Numerical methods and simulations applied in Technology; Operator theory and their applications in Physics of science; Boundary problems Plasma physics.
SARA SCRO AND ROSARIO NIDO SIGN THE KIMIYYA POSTER
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20 January 2020
Sara Sgro, artist, and Rosario Nido, olive wood craftsman, visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT and signed the "Kimiyya" manifesto in defense of women's rights.
ANNIVERSARIES AT THE MUSEUM: 100 YEARS FROM THE BIRTH OF FEDERICO FELLINI
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20 January 2020
The ninth anniversary is dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Federico Fellini.
Many artists and actors intervened in the multimedia rooms of the Museum where - in the section "The great protagonists of history" - videos, images and documents on the great director are available.
On this occasion, images, films, interviews and comments from all over the world were projected on the occasion of the centenary. The most significant films of the great director have been re-proposed in the 5 floors of the Museum.
ANNIVERSARIES AT THE MUSEUM: 20 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF BETTINO CRAXI
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19 January 2020
The eighth anniversary is dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the death of Bettino Craxi.
Many politicians intervened in the multimedia rooms of the Museum where - in the section "The great protagonists of history" - videos, images and documents on the Italian statesman are available.
On this occasion, pages of the recent book by Bettino Craxi "Paris - Hammamet" and pages of the books by Claudio Martelli "The antipathic" and Marcello Sorgi "Presumed guilty" were read.
The interviews and all the video material on Bettino Craxi were repeated on the 5 floors of the Museum.
In the afternoon debate on the recent film by Gianni Amelio "Hammamet".
President Michele Capasso recalled the friendship between Bettino Craxi and his father Raffaele and his frequent visits to Pietro Nenni's home, as well as visits to San Sebastiano al Vesuvio and the funeral of 2000 in Tunisia ".
All reported in the book "Nostro Mare Nostro" by Michele Capasso.
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF BETTINO CRAXI CELEBRATED
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19 January 2020
"My freedom is equivalent to my life".
"This is the inscription on a simple whitewashed tomb facing Italy, in memory of a great statesman: Bettino Craxi".
With these words, President Michele Capasso paid tribute to the statesman and the socialist who shared a long period with his father Raffaele, among the founders of the Socialist Party, a friend of Pertini and Nenni.
President Capasso visited Hammamet a few days before to be present at the Museum of Peace - MAMT where a ceremony took place with a moment of debate on Gianni Amelio's film "Hammamet".
And on this day, January 19, 2020, many people, almost 1000 people, accents from all over Italy, the desire not to feel veterans but part of history. A few tears of ladies with dark glasses.
At 10.30 the commemoration of Bettino Craxi, on the exact day of his death 20 years ago, took place at the Catholic cemetery of Hammamet, Tunisia, a tongue of sand in front of the tombs of Muslims obviously in a much larger space. The widow Anna Moncini Craxi arrives, escorted by her children. Stefania is embraced by Benedetto, the son of Bobo, the grandson who bears the name of his grandfather even if no one calls him Bettino, a sign of reconciliation between the brothers who experience pain and this long wound never healed in two different ways.
There are no political speeches, only many leaders or militants of the old PSI, such as Ugo Intini, or of the new, such as Senator Riccardo Nencini and secretary Enzo Maraio, and some Forza Italia MP, who leave the carnations on the white tomb, repainted fresh, of the socialist leader. A single voice rises from the silent group: it is that of a baritone friend who sings Schubert's Ave Maria. Claudio Martelli arrives with a slight delay and this makes the old socialists smile because it was like that even then, when everything seemed to revolve around a red carnation. Now that flower is on a white tombstone, on the relief of an open book as seen in the ancient symbol of Italian socialism. There is a magnificent sun and the sound of the sea, "Nostro Mare Nostro": divided by us and not among us!
"A thousand have come, like Garibaldi's. The testimony that Craxi is alive, as opposed to the many dead who claim to discuss his mistakes before even theirs," said his daughter Stefania. While his wife Anna added: "I am very moved, the trust of these friends and companions is greater than I thought, 20 years have passed and Bettino is still in the hearts of many".
"The Democratic Party and the League absent here in Hammamet? Many Italians do without both the Democratic Party and the League and perhaps we Socialists too can do without both," said his son Bobo instead. He added: "There is a double reading, we are obliged to remember and remember, but also obliged to remember that he was the victim of unparalleled persecution, as the President of the Republic said 10 years ago.