Things to remember for Italians who are desperate. In an age in which a virus, the Coronavirus, is enough to depress an entire people, to find motivation it is enough to resort to the most effective tool we have: the memory.
And using it we discover that there are many things to remember for Italians. Because Italy is not a peripheral offshoot of Europe but one of the driving forces of the world. Exaggerated? We read here:
Things to remember for Italians who are desperate for the Coronavirus
- The Italians have ruled half the world. At the time of its greatest expansion, the Roman Empire ruled from Spain to the Middle East, from Scotland to Egypt. All of Europe and the Mediterranean had their heads in Roma. Not in Brussels.
- For twenty centuries, Italians have commanded the most widespread religion in the world, Catholicism. The popes who ruled the world morally were Italians chosen by Italians. Monasticism, which will reclaim Europe, was born in Italy, with Saint Benedict of Norcia and most of the religious movements have Italy as their epicenter.
- Today if we want to talk about high-level schools we mention Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard. But universities, incubators of culture and knowledge, were born in Italy. The oldest university institution in the world, that of Bologna, even dated 1088.
- Today all the economies of the world look to China as a destination for development. The first Westerners to set foot in China are Italians. Just read the Million Marco Polo to find out how Italians were already there in the XNUMXth century.
Colombo, Vespucci, Galilei ...
- Someone accidentally remembers that the United States of America rests its feet on the earth that discovered an Italian, the Genoese Christopher Columbus, and which takes its name from another Italian, Florentine, Amerigo Vespucci?
- Everyone today looks to science as a central element in the progress of humanity. It is therefore perhaps worth remembering that the whole scientific construct, from medicine to physics, from mathematics to computer science, is based on a method that we invented in Italy. That of the Pisan Galileo Galilei.
- Every time we turn on the radio, in any part of the globe, we should remember that a Bolognese invented it, Guglielmo Marconi, whenever we use a flashlight we should remember Alessandro Volta. And every time we use a phone and therefore every time we use the internet, we shouldn't forget that he invented it. Antonio Meucci.
A little pride. How many other things to remind Italians are there?
