Probably more than in Italy is remembered abroad. And the reason is quite clear. Over the years of the Cold War, the East-West confrontation and the fight against communism, he (Democratic Left), takes the side of dialogue and openness policy. During the period in which the mayor of Florence, then, the city stands as a protagonist of an intercultural dialogue is not without substance (as he reminds Andreotti in 1991: a mid-sixties, his "religious and cultural openings" were also "seem extra- vagantes " but "track instead of lines contact between Christians, Jews and Muslims are still traces of which they consider positive, useful to the good name outside of Italy) .
speak of Giorgio La Pira, the mayor-saint of the city of Florence, "apostle of peace in the world and important political figure of our Republic, born January 9, 1904, several miles south of "his" Florence (where he is buried next to Savonarola, Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola), namely in Pozzallo in the province of Ragusa. One of the lesser known provinces of Sicily, but incredibly rich in history and culture .
To begin in the province of Ragusa (Modica, a country known for its chocolate) was born 110 years ago the Nobel Prize Salvatore Quasimodo ( Elio Vittorini's brother in law), a great friend of La Pira and three years older than him. And Comiso, a country of the Ragusa Gesualdo Bufalino were born, much appreciated writer (to whom he dedicated Franco Battiato, ultimately, a work in DVD) and the artist, painter, sculptor, writer, Salvatore Fiume .
Pozzallo is one of the most in the south of Italy, extending for about two kilometers on the Mediterranean Sea. Within its core (located behind the "Torre Cabrera" was originally to defend the warehouses and the beaches from pirate raids) a short walk from the central Piazza of Remembrance is the Foundation familiare Giorgio La Pira – segni della memoria”, promossa e curata dagli stessi discendenti del sindaco di Firenze. Leggiamo su un pieghevole stampato per i cento anni dalla nascita di La Pira: « Si tratta di un particolare percorso espositivo che ha un’impostazione prettamente storico-documentaria perché è testimonianza della formazione umana, religiosa culturale e politica di Giorgio La Pira e, nello stesso tempo, segno dei legami con la sua famiglia e la sua città » .
L’abbiamo visitata e possiamo offrire una nostra testimonianza. Si tratta of a place (a room in the basement, a former entertainment premises for the youth), in which the memories are mixed with secular spiritual suggestions. A course divided into a bright room, chock full of objects, snapshots (the grandfather of Garibaldi La Pira, parents, Gaetano and Angela Occhipinti), correspondence, articles, pages of newspapers and books. In almost schematic and to give the reader an idea. In the first room, are preserved objects and documents of the house-natal: tools, knick-knacks and photos, in the second room, the memories of the family La Pira nuns and sisters, in the third room, memories of the monastery of Montevergine di Messina in which Twenty years La Pira - initially dannunziana training and future - is converted ("Montevergine perfume, scent of a Virgin Mountain, the city can attract it to Whole joys of beauty," he said) in the fourth room, yet personal and interesting manuscripts of Giorgio La Pira, related to the Florentine period .
Giorgio La Pira, a servant of God for the Catholic Church, was a very normal boy, mischievous as the boys of his generation, says the grandson who looks after us gently throughout Sicily at the premises of the "Foundation" Via Pascoli. The family did not era ricca… ed egli poté intraprendere una prestigiosa carriera grazie alle sue capacità e alle amicizie… Giorgio ebbe un ruolo importante in seno all’Assemblea costituente del 1946... perfino l’art 2 della nostra Costituzione è ispirato ai suoi principi, oltreché, naturalmente, ai diritti dell’uomo .
Tappa fondamentale della sua vita, oltre la conversione, è la laurea in Giurisprudenza a Firenze, ove nel 1933 La Pira diventa ordinario di “Istituzioni di diritto romano”. Naturalmente bisogna anche ricordare his membership of the Christian Democrats as the exponent of the "Dossetti. Finally, his friendship with Amintore Fanfani (of which he was secretary), the historic horse race of the DC .
With Fascism has a great relationship, at least until the outbreak of war in this period is even opposed by the arrangements. Mussolini, however, and over the years (in 1965 for example), a non-Serb remember much negative. A "good Democrat" La Pira lived his two great loves (politics and Catholicism) with inspired harmony: "... the political commitment - that is a direct commitment to building a Christian society inspired in its laws, starting the economy - is a concern for humanity and holiness ...." He began his tenure as mayor of Florence in 1951 (it will be until '64). His vocation "popular" and its proximity to the suffering and the needy, put him into conflict with some colleagues, sometimes as in the case of the defense of workers of "Pinion" even manages to involve the government itself. Many people think of him is a "white community" one who acts with too much "zeal" in business ... the economy between unfavorable opinions about La Pira, Luigi Sturzo to (another Sicilian), which judges negatively statism of party colleague and that of Luigi Gedda who does not like some of the attempts at dialogue with the La Pira 'On the other hand the "red" in the sky political .
La Pira is that in an attempt to unite socially (unite people, beyond their differences and unite them with dialogue), divided politically. Sometimes the big combines and divides by the ingenuity ... (for some a false naivete) with which it wants to override "hierarchy" and established patterns and methods to pass on the cold war. In Florence gives rise to social initiatives and organizes international conferences for peace, traveling the world (even the "evil" they say that his greatest ambition is the Nobel Peace Prize), he went to Moscow and even in Vietnam. "La Pira was a frantic international activity," wrote Sergio Romano on Corriere della Sera, 24 January 2009, "sent letters to the men of state, full of exhortation and prophetic announcements ...." It stands as a willing protagonist of a "historic" interview (organized by the same wife Fanfani) with Gianna Preda editor del Borghese periodico tutt’altro che amico di Fanfani e della sua corrente .
Per l’occasione, si lascia andare a critiche gentili ma “scorrette” verso gli americani e, al contrario, ad aperture “pericolose” verso i comunisti. Il risultato è scontato: le dimissioni di Fanfani da ministro degli esteri (anche perché nell’operazione è “coinvolta” la moglie, diplomaticamente menzionata come “un familiare”) .
How will it end? We are in the First Republic and the remoteness of the Fanfani ministerial power only lasts a few months ... The La Pira Pira or not, at the end of February '66 is back in the saddle toscanaccio .
La Pira died in '77 leaving correspondence, writings and thoughts later published. Since the mid-eighties, began talking about his beatification .
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