Italian officials including Culture
Minister Alessandro Giuli and director if Italian museums
Massimo Osanna on Thursday unveiled a new literary and cultural
park in Naples at the site where the tombs of the great poets
Virgil and Giacomo Leopardi are located.
Virgil was perhaps the greatest Ancient Roman poet and his
greatest work was the Aeneid, the story in epic verse of Trojan
her Aeneas's journey from Troy to the area where Rome was
founded. His tomb is traditionally located in Naples.
Leopardi was Italy's greatest Romantic poet and is regarded as
the greatest Italian poet after Dante. He spent his last few
years in Naples and is buried in the southern port city.
Giuli said:
"The park is dedicated to two giants of our literature and is in
one of the most important cities in Italy, Naples, which
synthesizes in itself, in its millenary culture, the highest and
noblest things in Italian literature, history, tradition and
culture".
Osanna said:
"It is a day of celebration and it is also exciting to give back
to the community, to Naples and to Italy this place that is
among the most emblematic of our culture: the park of the tombs
of Virgil and Leopardi, the two Bards finally together in a
context that does them honour".
He said the project had restored the tombs, revamped the garden
and added "an archaeological and botanical path in the name of
accessibility: the QR code allows everyone, even the visually
impaired and those with cognitive difficulties, to gain access
to the information, and therefore it is a beautiful 360-degree
accessibility project".
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