“It is a profound honor for me and an authentic emotion to be here today, in this prestigious setting, to inaugurate the day that the book of the book dedicates to an extraordinary son of our Calabria: the Professor Nuccio order. Talking about Nuccio Order means evoking the figure of an intellectual of international stature, a passionate humanist, a rigorous scholar and, at the same time, a citizen of the world with his heart always turned to his land. It was, and remains, a bridge between the thought of the past and the challenges of the present, between philosophical reflection and civil commitment, between school and society. And today, with pride, Calabria celebrates it in the heart of the greatest Italian event dedicated to the book and thought “.
Thus, the councilor for culture and social policies, Caterina Capponiintroduced the day dedicated to the memory of Professor Nuccio Order, the first event of the daily programming of the Calabria Region at the Turin Book Fair, with the participation of the President of the Regional Council of Calabria, Filippo Mancusoand the President of the Vittoriale of the Italians, Giordano Bruno Guerri.
“Professor order has been able to return their alive voice to the classics, he defended with courage and lucidity the value of culture as a common good, as the nourishment of the soul and an instrument of freedom. In a time when profit is often opposed to beauty, and knowledge is measured in terms of productivity, he instead claimed, with the strength of a witness, rather than with the words of a theorist, the need for the use of us, intended to us as a use of a theoretical. Aware, free today.
“I thank the president Occhiuto, the junta, the Culture Department with the General Manager Maria Antonella Cauteruccio and the sector manager Ersilia Amatruda, the general secretary of the junta, Eugenia Montilla, because the Calabria Region strongly wanted this day, not only to pay homage to a man who has brought the name of our land in the world high, but to launch a message: culture is not a luxury, it is a necessity, world and to others.
“I am very happy to participate in this day that wants to remember the great value of Nuccio order, philosopher and historian of literature recognized in the world as one of the greatest Italian essayists”.
This was stated by the president of the Regional Council of Calabria, Filippo Mancuso, after thanking the commissioner Capponi, the Region, the Regional Department, the artistic director Francesco Mazza and the whole working group “for planning participation in the Book Fair with a series of important events and meetings, to represent a different Calabria, which is not the one that is many times told, with a programming that gives voice to many different authors: a large space of democracy. that culture is the antidote to change the present and the future of our beautiful region “.
For Giordano Bruno Guerri “the great human wealth of this region, is a wealth that can be developed, which must grow continuously aita, especially with the culture that is the basis of all the other developments. For this reason – he said – I am grateful to those who wanted to dedicate this demonstration to Nuccio Order, a very important character in Italian culture that for his modesty has not been sufficiently honored and evaluated, although he had the assignments of extraordinary importance. importance also in my life “.
In the second event of the day dedicated to Nuccio Order, in addition to the commissioner Capponi, Mario Andreosa and Elisabetta Sgarbi, publishers of La Nave di Teseo, recalled the figure of the full professor of Italian literature at the University of Calabria in Cosenza, the highest expert in the world of the studies of Giordano Bruno, Telesio and Campanella, awarded the Princess Avultie 2023 prize for communication and the human sciences, also.
One of his students also intervened, Federica Ferreri, who said Nuccio Order “has changed the life of many young people. I want to spread his message with the help of these wonderful people who decided to make sure that today, with this day dedicated to him, he could continue talking, to talk to us, because the professor’s voice is not off and his message will not stop”.
The event ended with the words of his wife Rosalia Broccolo who, very excited, announced that his latest book will be published by La Nave di Teseo.