The L. Institute Einaudi of Manduria wins the 1st and 2nd prize of the literary competition “Cosimo Moccia”.
The winners of the 2nd Edition of the Literary Competition named after the partisan carabiniere “Cosimo Moccia” were announced at the Civic Museum of Manduria, organized by the Municipal Administration of Manduria, in collaboration with the ANPI, reserved for all students of fifth classes of secondary schools and aimed at promoting the values of democracy and freedom.
The 1st and 2nd prizes were won by two students from the “L. Einaudi” of Manduria, respectively Marika Tatullo And Lara Calòboth attending class V^ section B of the Tourism curriculum, who received the rewarding recognition from the mayor of Manduria, Gregorio Pecoraroof the deputy mayor and councilor for culture and public education, Vito Andrea Mariggiòby the president ANPI Manduria, Gregorio Pizziand the deserved appreciation from the audience present at the event.
The works, carried out in the form of a short essay and evaluated by a specially appointed jury composed of experts representing all the participating schools, the Municipality of Manduria and the ANPI, had as their theme: “The dramatic events of recent years, in particularly the ongoing wars, draw attention to the need to defend individual freedoms and territorial sovereignty between states. How do you believe that young people can contribute to ensuring continuity in the future of the constitutional values that the resistance has allowed to be established”.
Great satisfaction for the teachers and the director of the “Luigi Einaudi” Institute, Pierangela Scialpi, who expressed emotional words of praise for both winners – the first of whom was invited to read her brilliant work – for their argumentative mastery and the broad and contextualized critical reworking of the contents developed, with the awareness of how the humanity, since ancient times, has deluded itself into finding a quick solution to the world’s problems in war and then ended up writing pages of history in blood. The condemnation of war as “unworthy of man” and the strong call to “prepare Peace” were the key points of the works produced by the students through cultural junctions recalling historical events and illustrious figures in the panorama of the fight for conquest of freedom and democracy; young heroes and martyrs like fellow citizen Cosimo Moccia, united by a common feeling, that of independence from oppression and Nazi-fascist dictatorship.
A mix of disciplinary and transversal skills expressed by the students through the awareness of how History becomes the memory of the Future, where young people have the task of living and bearing witness to the Italian Constitution as a common good to be jealously guarded through active participation in defense of the rights of freedom, cornerstones of democracy.
