who believes that a liberal should not be bold and unconventional, and indeed rationality, critical sense and balance that would result ultimately in a moderation of intelligence - as happens with shame that too many conservatives today call themselves "liberal" - did not understand anything of liberalism, nor Cavour and Pannunzio. juxtapose them with good reason, and not just because Pannunzio kept behind the desk a portrait of the patron lari di Cavour as do Parri. But because they had much in common, including a short and intense life that left them little after 50 years, the courage and boundless imagination, versatility and pragmatism, and above all liberalism as the reason for living, nourished not by selfishness personal interests or petty and paltry views of society and the economy, but of high ideals and strict ethical, open to all new rights of freedom, real reform, social altruism, respect for the picky "rules."
And both, Cavour and Pannunzio, though officially the moderates, with intelligence risky and reckless, not at all moderate, created and spread new ideas, original formula ideological and political programs, scenarios, and innovative papers. And for this both pleased to many, many, the most intelligent and open, but displeased with its modernity and the thought of such "European", not very Italian, with many provinces of our country, even self-styled "liberals", with the well-known municipal stupidity that we carry with us from the Middle Ages.
And both were born exactly 100 years later, in 1810 Cavour, Pannunzio in 1910. And deep down, in hindsight, were the first and last member of the Risorgimento. So
seems happy intuition Pannunzio Centre in Turin to celebrate in a year that in addition to the centenary of the birth di Pannunzio (nato il 5 marzo) vede anche il bicentenario di Cavour (10 agosto), vero e unico geniale Padre della Patria che fece 150 anni fa, quasi da solo, per la Nuova Italia quello che ancora o perfino oggi - scusate il paradosso - non sarebbe possibile fare.
Due modelli esemplari, Pannunzio e Cavour, del vero essere, pensare e soprattutto "fare" liberale, che domani, martedì 9 marzo, alle ore 17,30 nell’Aula Magna dell’Università di Torino saranno al centro d’un importante convegno organizzato dal Centro Pannunzio (istituto di cultura fondato da Arrigo Olivetti e Mario Soldati nel 1968) sul tema "Pannunzio, il Risorgimento, Cavour", con l’alto patronato del Presidente della Repubblica.
On this occasion, the Italian Post Office has printed a commemorative stamp of Mario Pannunzio (see picture), with a special postmark in post offices and Lucca, his birthplace. Pending
of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Cavour and the Unification of Italy, the figure of Mario Pannunzio, unfairly regarded by some merely "a great newspaper editor," deserves this memory.
Great newspaper editor, of course, but most original political (among other things was one of the founders of the Liberal Party and then the Italian Radical Party), a man of great culture and great versatility, with an uncommon sense of ethics and aesthetics , Pannunzio proved that to be liberal (And real liberals, not conservatives mediocre, like many today are in fact) is also to be full of creativity, insight and elegance, that is intelligence. A model for us all.
A man, then, complex personality and many interests. Not like some who do not know anything in life to throw themselves in politics or journalism, because in these two areas in Italy there are no filters on if you have any recommendations. Along with anti-Italian and Italian, lazy lover of convenience, but need to feverishly active and unstinting, bon-vivant, frequenter of coffee and aesthetics, but as the usual Italian windbag, inconclusive and ready for anything - Franza, or Spain, as long as magna - but as a strict Anglo-Saxon, a perfectionist, an idealist and activist, a lover of pleasure but with some of the highest moral rectitude, in short, if anything, the dough of Salvemini, the Einaudi, of Ernesto Rossi, of Cavour. After that, well let's give him the label of versatile amateur of genius, but not wrong with the irony that you bring some Italian. Who knows how to see, read but not enough to look at old copies of World Pannunzio was to show that Anglo-Saxon. That typeface with "thank you" very broad and black square, then spent most of the typical character for "rational" and then "liberal" in the center of the cylinder head design graphic unusual in Italy, the use of white space and large picture, not always related to the article, but often themselves products of counterpoint, and finally, the pragmatic approach of different authors and different view in a continuous dialogue, while within the confines of the liberal. The best week that Italy has ever had, as well as the liberal Risorgimento was by all accounts, even their opponents, the best political newspaper. The
kalos kai Agathos , the good thing is, they were inherent to his personality. After all was quiet when the director took the fall of Fascism - coincidentally, at the right place - in a newspaper. It was he who draw in the Italian just revived after the fall of fascism, the first announcement of Messenger "free", a statement from the rest super cross, at the time when even liberals who were not cross at least knew how to write press releases. So he changed his life: he left the crank of the camera and created the most beautiful quotifiano party ever seen in Italy. Then would come the
World (1949), the weekly or rather the "center-studies" of real, new, new heir of the Risorgimento Italy, founded on secularism, liberal reforms, dignity, Europe, the science, extension rights and freedoms to the new emerging classes, on overcoming the political barriers false justifying illiberal already a bipolarity: on the one hand, the Christian Democrats (in fact, often clerical-fascists) and the other communists infiltrated the Soviet Union. With liberals, Republicans, Social Democrats, and radical post-shareholders, divided by obtusely wrong positions (think of the alliance with the everyman PLI), quarrelsome, intimidated, runners, one against the other tanks, instead of doing common front.
More than any other party, the "party" of the World hit left and right on the foul corporatism "Italian society," sulle speculazioni dei "palazzinari", la corruzione del boom economico, la distruzione dell'ambiente (Cederna), l'equivoco sottoculturale e provinciale del "conservatorismo" verniciato di finto iberalismo, sulla Sinistra estrema spacciata per "progresso" e "libertà", sulla sintesi tra le varie anime della tradizione liberale, da Croce a Einaudi, l'azionismo e il radicalismo democratico, da Rossi a Salvemini.
Una sintesi che riuscì solo a Pannunzio, non solo sul piano giornalistico ma anche ideologico e culturale, prova che il Mondo e il suo direttore non erano scatole vuote, empty boxes , come i giornali fatui, buonisti perché opportunisti di oggi, pronti a cambiare articolo e tesi behest of the political advertising or on duty, but had strong ideas, open horizons, vast knowledge, powerful intellect, and the means of communication psychology usually lacking in the Italy of the Counter Reformation, albeit self-styled "liberal".
But it was the opening to the costume, ideas and the best European and American culture, including music and cinema, as evidenced by the great names of Italian and foreign employees (including Ennio Flaiano, born the same day and same year Pannunzio of, and he is very similar to some sections), the items of correspondence sent and, in addition to the famous "Meeting of the World", to make the World the latest Italian newspaper and most prestigious, although certainly not the biggest.
And so, today are pathetic, even provocative, attempts by the Right and Left, and even some conservative clerical at the time of World would read some of his editorials and comments with open annoyance, to grab the embalmed remains of ' single man of genius who gave the publishing policy in Italy.
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IMAGES. 1. The first issue of The Weekly World. 2. The stamp commemorating Pannunzio.
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