On Monday 15 September in the heart of the historic center of Cosenza a day that will combine memory and a future always full of initiatives under the presidency of Maria Cristina Parise Martirano.
On Monday 15 September, the Cosenza Committee of the Dante Alighieri company, with the patronage of the Province of Cosenza, the Municipality of Cosenza and the Cosenza Academy, will celebrate 130 years from its presence in the city. A committee that was born only a few years after the foundation of the Dante Alighieri company National by a group of intellectuals led by Giosuè ‘Carducci. Promoting the Italian language and spreading the values of civilization in the world, through culture, education and dialogue, which has always been Dante’s mission, is also the mission of the Cosenza committee born in the Cosentina Academy headquarters. The Cosenza Committee in its history, although between ups and downs, has been able to interpret and relaunch these purposes on the Calabrian territory, in dialogue with schools, institutions
and citizenship.
In celebrating the 130 years of their committee there is’ on the part of the members not only the need to stress the past forcefully, but at the same time the great desire to continue this long journey with the responsibility of making it alive, current, necessary. And President Maria Cristina Parise Martirano with force with force that “this
Recommendation is not for us only an opportunity for memory, but also a stimulus to renew our commitment. In line with the innovation project undertaken by the company Dante Alighieri with the president Andrea Riccardi towards a digital humanism, the Cosenza committee with its history
secular is ready to face this new time with passion and vision, convinced that culture
It is never only inheritance, but also and above all project: to honor the past with a look to the future, ready to innovate, to involve young people, to strengthen digital culture, to promote
Identity and sustainability, to feed “Italsimpathy”. The program of the day, very articulated, will open, starting from 5.30 pm on Monday 15 September between Piazza XV MARCH and the entrance of the Villa with the Città di Mendicino gang. In the square
The Historic Cars Gathering of the Bruzia Scuderia. In the villa, around the gazebo the Academy of Traditional Games will offer a playful moment with the children, and on the gazebo there will be the concert of the masters
Salvatore and Daniele De Paola, with the participation of the soprano Alessandra Mandarino. It will enter
In the Palazzo della Provincia, welcomed, in the atrium, by the Aura Arte Choral, where to institutional greetings, in the presence of Prof. Salvatore Italia of the company Dante Alighieri, the report of the
Dr. Anna Pompeii Ruedeberg, president of the Dante Alighieri company of Bern on the theme of Italsimpatia between Italian and Italian -speaking. Following the toast by the Mancini-
Tommasi-Todaro-Cosentino and then … to see the stars again with the Astrofili group Giovan Battista Amici. Finally “with bang”: the fires by the spontaneous committee of Piazza Spirito Santo. In an intercultural festival, in the name of the Italian language that unites, a Valdese participation will not be missing with the Cultural Center L. Pascale of Guardia Piemontese and Arbereshe with the
Roka Produzioni and the Intercultura Consultation of the Municipality of Cosenza. Among the schools, the Liceo della Valle Valle Current headquarters of the Committee and the Classical Flower High School, as well as the Da Vinci Nitti Institute, home of the Plida Certifier Center (Italian Language Project Dante Alighieri).
In addition to the festival of September 15, which will be the feast of Italsimpatia, (coined neologism
From President Riccardi) between Italian -speaking and Italian -speaking, after the meticulous research in the archive of the Dante Alighieri company in Rome, the publication of a book with the history of the 130 years of the committee is expected, in whose pages stories, faces, ideas and values that have crossed are intertwined
The generations and given life to the identity of the association attended by many important characters in our city. To the participants in the event of 15 September, pending the
Next publication of the book, for the publishing house Le Pecore black, a booklet will be distributed containing some significant moments of the presidency of Prof. Maria Cristina Parise Martirano, from 2003 to today.