The Fanzago Prize returns to Palazzo Donn’Anna with the twentieth edition

The names chosen by the scientific committee of the Prize chaired by Francis Sabatini for this edition they are: the De Felice Foundation which carries out its activities in the theater of Palazzo Donn’Anna, Charles Sbordone mathematician and academic of the Lincei, the Rai journalist and writer Lorenza Foschinithe Mannajuolo Foundationwho takes care of the cultural and artistic activities in the homonymous and splendid building in via Filangieri, the architect Francesco Maistopresident of the Campi Flegrei National Park.

The ceremony will be preceded by a remembrance of Ottavio Ragone of the writer Raffaele La Capria and the architect Richard Dalisi (Wife will be present Anna Maria) recently disappeared and linked for years to the Neapolitan Palaces Association, to Palazzo Donn’Anna in particular and to the Fanzago, awarded respectively in 2010 and 2007.

Since 2008, the winners have been given a work by the archidesigner Riccardo Dalisi. This year on the occasion of the XX edition, thanks to the availability of the maestro Mimmo Paladin (who supplied the design and model) a sculpture created in memory of Dalisi especially for the Prize entitled: “The architect’s house” is donated. At the end of the evening Aurelio Musi i will talk about “Neapolitan Wunderkammer between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries”.

The prize

The prestigious award dedicated to the great seventeenth-century architect Cosimo Fanzagowhich leaves an extraordinary trace in the physiognomy of the capital of the Kingdom, was born from the long, intense and articulated activity of theNeapolitan Palaces Associationled by three architects: the president Sergio Attanasio, Celeste Fidora and Pietro Giordano, who were gradually joined by a variegated patrol of intellectuals, journalists, artists and scholars from Campania or Naples by adoption. And a scientific committee with the honorary president Francis Sabatini former president of the Accademia della Crusca, Jos Vicente Quirante Rives, Roy Boardman, Valerio Caprara, Jean Digne, Marc Innaro, Ewa Kawamura and Emanuela Chiumeo. The objective pursued in the last four decades has been to identify and reward some of the protagonists of Neapolitan and non-Neapolitan life, chosen from among those who have distinguished themselves most in safeguarding and enhancing the cultural and historical-artistic heritage or among those who have contributed to giving luster to the city and the region with daily commitment in the various areas of reference, even living far from Naples.

The association

At the same time theNeapolitan Palaces Association in recent years it has welcomed and guided thousands of visitors in the discovery (or rediscovery) of over two hundred historic homes in the city and monitored at least as many, above all in the historic centre, to report critical situations – emblematic, among others, is the case of the Monte di Piet – or to promote restoration and other recovery interventions – such as for the surviving wooden tablets of the sixteenth-century choir of the church of San Domenico Maggiore in 2011 or the recent restoration, proposed and approved by the Superintendency over fifteen years ago, of the façade of Doria d’Angri Palacethe work of Vanvitelli, and today built thanks to the commitment of the condominiums and the State (bonus facades) – therefore enhancing the heritage also from a tourist point of view, in synergy with the Sansevero Chapel Museum and its president Alessandra Masucci and with the National archeologic museumas in the case of the “recovery” of the bronze horse’s head, the work of Donatello (it was located in the offices) and the restoration of its terracotta copy by Diomede Carafa Palace. an attempt, ours, to focus the spotlight on Neapolitan excellence and in this world also of bring young people closer to the culture and history of places, especially in these times which unfortunately are characterized by the preeminence of a certain superficiality and an equally invasive generalized mediocrity, explains Professor Attanasio.

Among the external partners and cultural sponsors: the Sansevero Chapel Museum and the famous Palazzo Petrucci restaurant in Posillipo (Michelin star in the shadow of the Fanzaghian Palazzo Donn’Anna). While the list of personalities awarded to date includes the current Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, Raffaele La Capria, Roberto De Simone, Gerardo Marotta, Francesco D’Avalos, Silvio Perrella, Benedetto Gravagnuolo, Aldo Masullo, Stefano De Caro, Mariano Rigillo, Maria Rosaria de Divitiis, Antonio Ghirelli, Mario Orfeo, Paolo Giulierini, Jean Digne, Mimmo Jodice, Francesco Durante, Louis Godart, Sergio Siano, Vittorio Del Tufo, Jos Vicente Quirante Rives and the magistrate Louis Riello.

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