The legacy of Guido Carli
Who was there and what was said at the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Guido Carli
In the solemn setting of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Guido Carli whose memory was celebrated yesterday together with the homonymous annual award for Italian excellence, the notes of the Pooh close, 50 years and 5 million discs, with Roby Facchinetti, who gets the medal for music.
Applause from the red-velvet boxes and audience, crowded by a parterre of significant presences from the world of economics, finance, the professions, for the famous notes of "Pensiero" and "Tanta vora di lei".
It will be said: what do the Poohs have to do with the memory of the great Italian, economist-statesman, for 15 years at the helm of the Bank of Italy, former minister of the Treasury and ex of many other things, decisive signatory of the Maastricht Treaty? And, however, this year's award, for 14 Italian excellences, is also extended to music, sport and cinema with the medal for actor Pierfrancesco Favino.
The choice is an integral part of that message of optimism that the annual event intends to send to the country. Those beautiful notes of the Pooh, which transmit a scent of holidays and youthful lightness, began to resonate in Italy in the 60s and early 70s, the country in the wake of the economic boom of the 50s, after the post-war reconstruction enterprise, for which Carli was among the protagonists. Romana Liuzzo, creator and president of the Foundation named after her grandfather, the economist-statesman, of which Gianni Letta is honorary president, explains: "With the Guido Carli Award, this year, we celebrate Italian talents in every field, from economy to music, from institutions to sport. At the Teatro dell'Opera we celebrate the Italy of valor, and of values, which is affirming itself in the world. Ideas, creativity, culture, art and food are our soft power, tradition that marries innovation and becomes fascination in every corner of the globe”.
“Carli – he recalls – believed in an ethical economy, attentive to growth, work and solidarity. Pope Francis, in the letter he addressed to me on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the statesman's death, which took place on April 23, 1993, underlined 'commitment to the common good' as a distinctive trait of the statesman, inviting all of us, in Carli's footsteps, to reflect on the value of fraternity and to become builders of hope. We want to convey to the new generations the importance of working together for collective progress. If we invest in skills and people, the most precious resource we have, we are able to face even the most complex challenges”. “Carli – adds Liuzzo – was a brilliant and acute economist, an enlightened servant of the state and a man of great culture. For me, also a loving grandfather. In his lecture, President Mattarella has just indicated a fundamental compass for guiding the country in the global economic situation and protecting the interest of the collective good. This is the value of memory that we are proud to pass on. We still have a lot to learn from his rigor and his intelligence, from his pragmatic and non-ideological Europeanism”.
The president of the Foundation recalls: “At the end of the 1970s, at the time of austerity, Carli said that that historic appointment for Italians also contained an exhilarating aspect, for those who feel life as creativity, commitment, duty. He foreshadowed in those dramatic turning points of 'a country to be redone, from top to bottom' the possibility of a re-foundation'. Today we are in the same conditions”. "Through the fifteen winners, the highest number in the history of the Award (in its fourteenth edition, ed), the Guido Carli Foundation wants to relaunch that message of optimism: dream, ingenuity, merit and responsibility can remake the country, once again", concludes.
It is Gianni Letta, the honorary president, very close to Carli, who recalls that Giulio Andreotti described that great and very creative Italian as a true "Maastricht showman". He remembers it as a young man with Alcide De Gasperi to get "the first loan" delivered on a trip to the USA for the post-war reconstruction of "a country still dominated by an agricultural economy, which was then transformed into an industrial power of the group of large ”. Letta also underlines that special creativity and "slight irony" of Carli who fought against "rigid, senseless" parameters. "Guido Carli's lesson is extraordinarily timely – he admonishes – and is very present in the days in which the Stability Pact is being discussed".
Carli, continues Letta, "who was for a Europe of solidarity, has left an imprint on the construction of the community". "He was the absolute protagonist of the negotiations for the Maastricht treaty", adds the honorary president of the Foundation, explaining that Carli "had the Maastricht parameters modified so that they were not included in the Treaty, but in an attached table. It was a great success,” he concludes. The news message can only be one of rebirth and rational optimism, in the wake of Carli's "pragmatism" and "absolute moral rigour", recalls the Minister for European Affairs, with responsibility for the Pnrr, Raffaele Fitto in the video message to name of the government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, was present, underlining the need for Europe to show "solidarity and responsibility" on the epochal phenomenon of immigration. The award which, underlines the president Liuzzo, "celebrates talents and launches optimism", this year therefore extends to music, cinema and sport. The fourteen medals are presented, among others, to Sofia Goggia, Olympic ski champion, Matteo Lunelli, president of Cantine Ferrari, Francesca Bellettini, president of Ives Saint Laurent, Mario Moretti Polegato, founder and president of Geox, shareholder of Menarini, Lucia Aleotti, to Clemente Mimun, director of Tg5, to Ettore Prandini, president of Coldiretti, to Lamberto Giannini, head of the police. And to many other Italian excellences. Up to the "Thought" for Roby Facchinetti who sings it at the end.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/leredita-di-guido-carli/ on Sat, 06 May 2023 07:22:03 +0000.