Unanimously approved of those present, the Cosenza City Council, in an open session, conferred the post -mortem honorary citizenship to the prof. Nuccio order. The parchment with the motivation was delivered to his wife, Rosalia Broccoloby the Prime Minister Giuseppe Mazzuca and by the mayor, Franz Caruso who read it.
“With a profound sense of gratitude and admiration – we read in the motivation – the honorary citizenship posthumously to Professor Nuccio Diamante Order, an illustrious scholar and ambassador of Italian culture in the world, an eminent figure of contemporary humanistic thought, whose intellectual and moral link with the city of Cosenza has left an indelible imprint in the local and refined interpreter of humanism, is conferred. Nuccio Diamante Order has embodied the ideal of the teacher as a civil guide, bringing to all his lessons the ethical value of knowledge as a common good and as an indispensable foundation of democracy. His work, recognized globally, fed on the southern and Calabrian identity, which he has always claimed with pride, and who has been able to transform into a bridge between classic thought and contemporary consciousness. Author of studies translated into dozens of languages, full professor at the University of Calabria and member of prestigious European and international academies, order has been able to keep the name of Cosenza high, promoting a message of humanity, dialogue and freedom of the spirit everywhere. With his lucid and rigorous voice, he defended the dignity of teaching, the centrality of the school and the public university, and the value of culture not subject to logic of profit. His loss represents an unbridgeable void for the world of culture, but his example remains alive in the generations of students and citizens who listened to him, read and admired him. With this conferment, the city intends to honor the memory of an authentic master, intellectually free and deeply linked to his land, recognizing in him a universal symbol of disinterested knowledge, active citizenship and ethical commitment. “
The works of the city council were opened by President Mazzuca who, in a very excited intervention said: “It is an important day for our city, we celebrate on his birthday one of the most illustrious children of Calabria, giving him a great and fair honor: the honorary citizenship of Cosenza which is perhaps a small thing compared to the honors that Nuccio Order has received during his prestigious academic career, but we would have made him, Pleasure perhaps receives more than others. It is a recognition, in fact, that comes to him from his land and his people who has always loved and who has been the compass of his work despite being truly a citizen of the world“President Mazzuca therefore reported one of the passages reported in the last book by Paride Leporace,” Cosenza in the 900 “, in which it is remembered” that in April 1911 on the classic high school staircase to pronounce the celebratory speech for the fourth centenary of the birth of Bernardino Telesio, the most illustrious son of Cosenza, he was a young man, at the time, professor of the University of Palermo, Giovanni Gentile. Maximum Italian philosophers of the short century. One hundred years later to preside over the committee for the sixteenth -century of the thinker who revolutionized the study of nature was called a young professor of the University of Calabria Nuccio Order which was not less than the philosopher of Castelvetrano in the history of Italian thought “.
Giuseppe Mazzuca then, then, Re -enhanced the career of prof. Nuccio Order, already well described and summarized on the occasion of her premature death from Chiara Cassiani and Maria Cristina Figorilli Two unique professors and prestigious members of the Association of Italianists. “Personally – concluded President Giuseppe Mazzuca – I loved his famous speech to the boys in which he explained that we must study to become better, that the purpose of the school cannot be to train young people for the market, that schools cannot be businesses that cut the non -productive branches, that the school must be as Kant said not the sounding board of the false commonplaces of the company but must be a place where we criticize the fake values and we say the boys who do not It is true that human dignity is measured by the account that you have in the bank but that human dignity is measured by culture.
This message of prof. Nuccio Order, the president Mazzuca himself, wanted him to be broadcast by arousing the emotion of all those present in the classroom. The interventions of the city councilor, delegate of the Mayor to Culture followed, Antonietta Cozzaof the President of the Culture Commission of Palazzo dei Bruzi, Mimmo Frammartinoof the Europarlamentary Pasquale Tridico and of the Hon. Giuseppe Conteformer president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic, who sent a video message. The mayor Franz Caruso, taking the floor, kept to underline that “the conferral of post -mortem honorary citizenship to Professor Order, represents the most significant recognition that our community can attribute, through the city council, to celebrate the figure and work of a man of international stature, who has dedicated his life to the spread of knowledge, to the defense of culture as a common good and the promotion of critical thinking. A formal obligation but from a collective will of gratitude and memory. They become, but it is the true and necessary recognition for a man who has left a strong and lasting imprint in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy and in the world “.
“Nuccio Order – continued Franz Caruso – has embodied one of the highest expressions of Calabrian culture: an open and never closed culture, always dialoguing, curious, humanistic and universal. A deeply structured personality, that of Nuccio order, strong, as it was, of an academic background, made of incessant studies and research, as of tax recognition, to a view, by the universities of the world and by the most diverse institutions Accredited that makes us proud of his belonging to our land and, the city of Cosenza must be grateful to him. Nuccio wanted, in fact, with Pervicacy, that in our historic center, at Palazzo Caselli-Vaccaro, the Telesian Study Center, Bruniani and Campanelliani of which he was president was located. A center that prof. Order was born with the aim of giving life to a library capable of offering scholars from all over the world the works of Bernardino Telesio, Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella, scattered everywhere, in other libraries, and also all the critical work on the three thinkers, to make it a center of excellence and a real philosophical pole. Nuccio Order, to whom a sincere friendship linked me, was a man who knew how to live and who participated in the most different activities that occupied him with great passion. During our not many opportunities for meeting – accustomed as it was to travel the world – he had the presence of a person who did not go into the chair, despite being the charedic we all knew. He has always been able to combine intellectual depth and humanity. Behind the figure of the great academic, there was a man capable of listening, empathy, dialogue “. The first citizen of Cosenza has therefore recalled how prof. Order wrote in his famous essay the usefulness of the users:” If we give up the generating force of the useless (…) we will be able to produce a sick and forgetful community (…) it will be really difficult to imagine that the inherent Homo Sapiens will still be able Make humanity more human “. Nuccio Order – he concluded – leaves us an immense legacy, which goes beyond his scientific production. It leaves us a high and noble idea of knowledge, which is dialogue, service, construction of humanity. And from today, the city of Cosenza, with this solemn act, recognizes him as one of his most illustrious children “.
Immediately after the mayor of Cosenza, prof. Gianluigi Greco representing the Unical, the city councilor Giuseppe CiaccoProf.ssa Federica Ferreri, Teacher and students of Nuccio Orde, Prof.ssa Miriam Petrone, Student and collaborator of prof. Order, the city councilor Concetta De Paola, Antonio Guarascio representing the students of the UNICAL academic Senate, the city councilor Aldo Trecroci and the president of the Rotary Club Cosenza Sette Colli, Vincenzo Divotowhich through the collaboration pacts signed with the municipal administration took care of the roundabout near the Calatrava bridge named after prof. Nuccio order.
Finally, the word the word took place in the name of the order Franco Maiolino who thanked the entire city council, the president Giuseppe Mazzuca and the mayor Franz Caruso, for “the substantial recognition” which he paid to the prestigious figure of Nuccio Order.