Giovanni Lilliu, an illustrious Sardinian: in Cagliari the first room of the former Royal Museum will take his name
The ceremony to celebrate the archaeologist, the intellectual and the politician in streaming from 10am on Unionesarda.it
Nuragic palace of Barumini and Giovanni Lilliu. A powerful and unique fusion between the place and the man, the archaeologist, the intellectual, the politician, the academic of the Lincei and the Sardus pater. A giant, for Sardinia. For his past and for his future. The first room of the former Royal Museum of Cagliari will be named after him : the dedication ceremony , with the round table "Giovanni Lilliu, the biography of an illustrious Sardinian" , is scheduled today, Friday 16 December, starting at 10, in piazza Arsenale and streaming on Unionesarda.it
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In 2022 some important anniversaries related to Lilliu fall: 10 years after her death, 15 from the awarding of the Sardus Pater prize (which she particularly cared about). And 25 since UNESCO recognized the complex of Barumini as a "world heritage site", which he discovered by looking with the eyes of an archaeologist at that hill with a rounded, perforated top, on which he played when he was a child.
Some have called him lucky. «He was instead an intellectual of crazy stature, who returned to Sardinia with an international archaeological culture and bearer of complex methodologies», explains Maria Antonietta Mongiu, archaeologist, member of the Board of Directors of the International Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, who tomorrow will chair and moderate the event honor of Lilliu: "We could only dedicate the first room of the former Royal Museum to him", he adds, "it is our duty to rediscover genealogies, because genealogies are generative". Therefore, to paraphrase Berdard of Chartres, only by rediscovering the heritage of knowledge left by the giants of the past can those who live in the present aspire to produce and in turn leave behind something good. «And we Lilliu have just started studying it», underlines Mongiu, «so far we have told it, because so many of us have known it. But his writings, even those published on what was once the “third page” of L'Unione Sarda, are of a power yet to be discovered».
During the meeting we will also talk about the political Lilliu. And for this reason the intervention of Antonello Soro is foreseen, in turn a politician, but also an essayist and former guarantor of privacy.
The works will be opened by the director of the national archaeological museum, Francesco Muscolino. The mayor of Cagliari, Paolo Truzzu, the president of the regional council, Michele Pais, will bring their greetings, and Cecilia Lilliu will also speak on behalf of the family.
The round table will be attended by Omar Chessa (full professor of constitutional law at the University of Sassari), with a speech on Lilliu and Sardinian autonomy after World War II, the rector of the University of Cagliari, Francesco Mola, who will talk about academic Lilliu, the anthropologist Bachisio Bandinu who will deal with the biography of a community intellectual and the writer Bianca Pitzorno, a failed archaeologist who found a master in Lilliu.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
