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Dec.12 - Dec.19, 2004 |
Italians in the World Honoured
Foundation awards prizes to Bevilacqua and others who have exported the Italian spirit
Originally Published: 2003-09-14
Sophia Loren, a national glory of Italy, was recently honoured for exporting the Italian spirit during her long acting career. She was awarded one of the prizes presented at the third edition of the Premio per gli Italiani nel Mondo. Other recipients of the prizes include Maurizio Bevilacqua, the Canadian Secretary of State for International Financial Institutions and one of the 353 MPs of Italian origin all over the world; Barbara Ensoli, a scientist working for Istituto Superiore di Sanità in developing vaccines against HIV; Maestro Antonio Pappano, musical director of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden; and Roberto Ruggieri, an entrepreneur who exported the best of Italian gastronomy under the brand name Bice; sir James Gobbo, former Governor of the State of Victoria, Australia; father Luciano Segafreddo, foreign editor of Messaggero di Sant'Antonio; Mauro Ferrari, a researcher at Ohio State University; race pilot Rubens Barrichello; the Rocca family, one of the most important in the world of international business; and Lawrence Auriana, Chair of the Columbus Citizens Foundation. Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia presented a tribute to the memory of Guglielmo Marconi to the scientist's daughter, Princess Elettra, while special prizes were given to Renzo Piano and Nino Manfredi (Lino Banfi presented the prize to Manfredi's wife Erminia).
"I saw Nino just yesterday," told Banfi, who often visits the hospital where Manfredi has been recovering since early July, "and I managed to make him smile. He says everything with his eyes and hands. He's undergoing intensive care now, but whenever he's a little less tired, he reacts very well to everything."
Many of these distinguished Italians - including a very late Mrs. Loren - had previously attended a presentation of the event held in Palazzo Chigi. During the presentation Tremaglia called himself "a politician who does his job with feelings and a heart."
He remembered the extraordinary emotion he felt in June, when he sneaked out of the hospital to go to Fiumicino airport and welcome the plane carrying the first ever ballots cast by Italians living abroad for the referenda.
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