“After this desert, a New Renaissance for culture awaits us,” Minister Dario Franceschini hoped a few days ago, seizing on the urgent collective need to return to listening to concerts and going to the theater.
Federico Bomba, artistic director of Sineglossa, for TPI – The Post International collects a series of statements from politics, artists, executives, managers, teachers, who call for the New Renaissance.
But it is not enough to call for a New Renaissance to actually make it happen.
The Renaissance is not and has not been palaces and paintings, infrastructural assets and opulence, but is, inescapably, the enhancement of the human skills that in infrastructure act, of which those who speak of culture often forget, focusing on the preservation and restyling of ancient splendor.
It is not enough to quote it, to appeal to it, hoping that it can materialize in our workplaces and homes, but it is important to start filling this slogan with shared meanings so that it becomes a clear reference on which to set the policies of the Next Generation Eu Italians, making it trespass from the enclosure of lower-case culture to allow it to cross-culturally inform all thinking about the country’s future.
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