Il Tirreno Giornale
(PISA, Italia, Sunday 18 June 2000 )
by Angela Feo
In June of 2001 a big concert in Piazza dei Miracoli.
PISA. In the concert hall of the Teatro Verdi the ceremony of the " The Last Nine Hundred Years International Prize, Pisa in the World 2000" has taken place. "A demonstration from the long and prestigious past", the alderman for culture of the Commune of Pisa, Fabiana Angiolini has said in the course of the presentation.
And also this year the event, its 23rd edition, presented with the subtitle "Pisa City of 2000," has greeted names of big cultural, artistic and scientific importance.
For her song,the Astrolab of gold, symbol of her Galileo Galilei Free Academy, and a very handsome bunch of roses went to the only winning woman, the very handsome soprano Katia Ricciarelli, acclaimed in all the principal theaters of the world, that in 30 years of career has faced a vast repertoire, from the Seventh Century to the present.
The prize was intended to be not the only recognition but also an auspice for a future still dense with successes. "A thank you from the heart" for what the singer has given to the numerous desirous public who listen to her. Also selected by the jury was Stefano Bruni, scientific manager of the archaeological excavation of San Rossore who has managed the recovery of the Roman ships and valuables in the Medicei Arsenals of Pisa.
The surgeon professor Franco Mosca, manager of the department of transplantations and of the new technologies of the Pisan athenaeum, has received the Astrolab for his remarkable activity of research in the field of diagnosis and care in oncology; coordinator of a surgical method of national prestige, professor Mosca is also founder of the Pisan Association of Surgery Research, of which he is president. To his honor, the maestro Andrew Bocelli, who - he has assured prof. Mosca, repeating the question of the coordinator of the prize, Mark Barabotti - the public next year will have the pleasure to listen to Bocelli in the Cathedral Piazza on occasion of the reopening of the Tower.
For the Italian literary culture section the viceprefect of Pisa Domenico Mannino has delivered the Astrolab to Prof. Dante Marianacci, teacher at the University of Edinburgh and here responsible to the Italian Institute of Culture. The actor poet Martin Savior then won for the Theater and poetry section, Gianfranco Placidi, psychiatrist, for the international research section, while Prof. Silvano Tagliagambe has received the Astrolab for the Philosophy of Science section. For International Intelligence, the Medal of the President of the Republic was won by Robert Andrč, president of the Association International "des critiques litteraires" from Paris, one of the researchers of major importance from central Europe. Father Ernesto Saksida for Humanitarian Mission section: the missionary, who worked prevalently in Brazil, has held a long discourse on the problems of the countries of the Third World. Finally, The Astrolab for painting has been delivered to the cubistic painter Arthur Carmassi, who has recalled the years in which he relocated to Paris.
Translated by Gary Feuerstein, 30 July 2000, from the Il Tirreno article
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