00:00It is significant now, because it starts in the 80th anniversary of the premio.
00:08And then, just a year after the birth of the Republic, it is due to the Constitution.
00:18So we need to be grateful to Melia Belloncia and to Guido Alberti for having chosen,
00:26involving, as I mentioned, from several members of the society,
00:32sensitive people culturally, to have chosen to support the launch of the new Italy
00:41with the decisive contribution of the culture, the literature, the narrative.
00:49And, as I said, in those years, in that period, to get from the hands of the army,
00:55and to get in the hands of a book.
00:58And this is really a message, not only that has contributed,
01:07sollecitando, esortando a reading, and then to reflect, to think, to try to understand,
01:13has contributed in a decisive way for the construction of the new Italy.
