“From Gutenberg to Artificial Intelligence, Freedom of the Press told by stamps” is the exhibition inaugurated this morning in the hall of the Cuneo Post Office in Via Franco Andrea Bonelli. It is a journey spanning five centuries of history that tells, with philatelic images, women and men protagonists of information, technological innovations, but also personalities of philosophy and science.
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The exhibition traces the history from when, in the mid-1400s, Gutenberg printed the first Bible with a movable type press and, shortly afterwards in Venice, Aldo Manutius, perfected the instrument that would allow an increasingly rapid diffusion of information, up to new challenges of information from the Internet to reach Artificial Intelligence.
A story that is told through the facts and characters reproduced in the precious stamps.
A chapter is dedicated to the story of Matilde Serao, a journalist and writer who, as soon as she graduated, began working at the post office as a telegrapher in Naples and then founded the Morning and the Day. The work of the telegraphers, narrated in State telegraphs (1895) also testifies to the first steps of female emancipation.
Present at the inauguration Cetty RestucciaDirector of the Cuneo branch ed Emanuela De DomenicoHead of the Central European Postal and Telegraph Museum of Trieste of Poste Italiane and curator of the exhibition, and the president of the cultural association Territori Enrico Anghilante. Students from the third year of the Mons. Andrea Fiore Institute also participated and shared the historical path of the right to freedom of the press through the special lens of philately.
At the end of the presentation, a stamping ceremony was held with a philatelic cancellation dedicated to the Exhibition with which it was possible to stamp postcards and correspondence as a souvenir of the day.
The exhibition is part of the program of initiatives implemented by theTerritori cultural association which every year on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, May 3rd, offers debates and reflections involving future generations through local schools.
It will be possible to visit the exhibition until Friday 7 June, during the opening hours of the Cuneo central post office: from Monday to Friday, from 8.20 to 19.05, and on Saturdays until 12.35.
