Long live the Italian talents
Who received the Carli Prize
It takes passion, as the song says, to dedicate an entire afternoon until late at night to Italian talent. With a precise message: the Euro-Atlantic axis. The part to be at. The Euro-Atlantic formula also echoes in the greeting-speech video that the Foreign Minister, the pentastellato Luigi Di Maio sends to the Guido Carli Foundation, as does the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, on the eve of his trip to Washington.
Romana Liuzzo, grandson of the economist who thirty years ago, as Minister of the Treasury, signed the Maastricht Treaty with Gianni De Michelis, Liuzzo president of the Guido Carli Foundation, and the honorary president Gianni Letta, with the Carli Prize pay homage to Italian talent. They do this by putting our country back at the center of that Euro-Atlantic axis which was decisive for leaving "a closed economy" and entering "the market economy", remembers the Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta. Stresses, Brunetta, in the name of Carli: “There is no alternative to Europe”. A Gianni Letta, with particular vivacity, leads the awards ceremony ranging from General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo to Gerry Scotti to Alberta Ferretti (the international designer who "opened a boutique in Rimini at 18") to the tomato king Francesco Mutti up to Federica Pellegrini , the queen of swimming to actor Toni Servillo.
The thirteenth edition of the Guido Carli Award was a tribute to Italian talent, staged at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, conceived by Romana Liuzzo and dedicated this year to her Massimo Dell'Omo, "war correspondent and special husband Recently passed away. "This time – he says – we did not stop only at economists, but we extended the award to all sectors that honor this country, to Italian excellences in fashion and art, sport, diplomacy and solidarity".
Here is Francesco Giambrone, the new superintendent of the Rome Opera House, awarded by Barbara Palombelli (one of the three women on the jury with Ornella Barra, with International Walgreens Boots Alliance and Monica Maggioni, director of Tg1 and new entry of this edition) and Ruth Dureghello, the first female president of the Jewish community of Rome, the oldest in Europe, awarded by the ambassador Giampiero Massolo, who defined her as a "strong woman in witnessing in a difficult time". Dureghello dedicated his award to Sami Modiano, a survivor of the Shoah "who made a lesson from the story of his experience and who transformed his wounds into a message of peace".
Institutional but also casual (for each prize winner the role, works, but also hobbies, childhood dreams and favorite recipes of the passatelli in broth of the Italian ambassador to the USA Mariangela Zappia with pasta alla Norma but without Giambrone ricotta salata are listed), the event he then saw on the stage awarded by Antonio Patuelli, president of Abi, Francesco Rocca national president of the Italian Red Cross who recalled the humanitarian missions in Ukraine and Luigi Ferraris, CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato.
Many dedicate the award to their children, or to parents, a bit like what happened to the David di Donatello with the moving words of directors and actors directed to their wives. Francesco Mutti does it too, “the one of good tomatoes” as introduced by Letta who dedicates the medal “to my wife, my daughter and my parents who taught me the value of work”. Zappia does it and among others Giovanna Melandri, president of the Maxxi Foundation with a dedication to her husband and daughter "joy of my life". Melandri talks about the project of the "great Maxxi", greets with a phrase from Alda Merini ("The greatest prize is life") and adds that life today must be saved from this war.
Fedele Confalonieri rewards supermodest Gerry Scotti ("I worked a lot and I was lucky, I don't have great merits" he fears), Maggioni hands him over to Federica Pellegrini and her companies, "stroke after stroke that bring Italy with them": " My family has always been my luck, I swam for twenty years, swimming has been my life ”, underlines Pellegrini, urging the personalities in the audience to invest in swimming.
Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, rewards Mariangela Zappia, ambassador of Italy in the US: "I want to send a message to women, this career can be done, even with a husband and children" is the thought of the ambassador to Washington. Among the other women on stage, the designer Alberta Ferretti “who dressed Jane Fonda but also Chiara Ferragni” as Ornella Barra recalls, who gives her the bronze medal of the Poligrafico e Mint dello Stato, also “because she is close to women”.
Applause for Toni Servillo, awarded by the president of Coni Giovanni Malagò. Letta introduces him joking about his "perfect" interpretation of Berlusconi in Sorrentino's 'Loro'. “Thanks to Letta who goes to theaters, it would be necessary for other people from institutions like her to do it,” says Servillo. Who dedicates the award to young people, exhorting them to do business: "You don't have to look for someone to place you but you have to place yourself on your own". General Figliuolo former extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency receives the award from Urbano Cairo: "This award must be shared with my team, only together can it be won and this award was won by the Italy team, I met a beautiful Italy everywhere ". Award to Rai president, Marinella Soldi, who grew up in London, who recalls the lesson of the Anglo-Saxon world on the freedom to choose what to become.
Italian talent, injection of courage and optimism, despite everything. But also clarity on which side to stand on.
“Guido Carli taught us which side to stand on. And today I am convinced that with respect to Europe he would be on the side of Draghi and Macron. Now it's up to us ”, underlines Brunetta. He continues: “Carli today
it would support the design of a sovereign Europe on energy and security, a new Next generation will be needed, aimed at strengthening European sovereignty in the points of weakness highlighted by the war. On 9 May Europe will be at a crossroads. The one between regression and the ability to survive the evils of his past. No state can save itself, there is no alternative ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/evviva-i-talenti-italiani/ on Sat, 07 May 2022 07:25:59 +0000.