«The Municipality should remove the statue of Carlo Felice, transfer the statue to a civic museum or another suitable space and change the name of the Largo of the same name». The request, by councilor Giuseppe Farris (CiviCa 2024) is contained in a motion that will be discussed in the City Council this afternoon. The goal «is not to erase the past, but to critically rethink the city's memory», says Farris. For this reason, he asks the mayor and the council to evaluate «an adequate intervention to safeguard the artistic work and its transfer to a civic museum or another suitable space, accompanied by information panels that illustrate the figure of the tyrant and the historical context in which he operated». Not only that. «It is also necessary to establish a special commission composed of historians, art experts and representatives of local institutions and entrust them with the task of: evaluating the most appropriate way of musealizing the statue», also through the drafting of «an informative text, to be displayed next to the statue, which offers a critical reading
of the figure of Carlo Felice». Finally, Farris asks for a «new naming of the Largo, which reflects principles of inclusiveness, democracy and sensitivity towards local history».
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