Stop to Carlo Rovelli at the Buchmesse and then after the extraordinary commissioner of the government at the Frankfurt International Book Fair 2024, Ricardo Franco Levi, who after having unleashed reactions of great dissent, renews the invitation to the physicist to participate in the opening ceremony « to share with all of us the beauty of research and the value of knowledge».

The withdrawal of the invitation had reached Rovelli in a letter from Levi, who is also president of the Italian Publishers Association, in which it was underlined that after the intervention at the May Day Concert in Rome in which the physicist had spoken of a possible escalation in the war in Ukraine by attacking Defense Minister Guido Crosetto without naming him , his participation in Frankfurt would have "revived controversies and attacks".

An immediate outcry in defense of Rovelli, the full solidarity of the world of culture, the request for a rethink and the opposition to the censorship expressed by many intellectuals and government officials, starting with the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano.

«In general, having suffered censures, I am against inflicting them on others. Perhaps I would add a few other voices to that of Professor Rovelli, that of Pierangelo Buttafuoco, Francesco Borgonovo, Marcello Veneziani or others in homage to pluralism», underlines Sangiuliano. Minister Crosetto "is sorry to disappoint the Italian conspiracy experts, always on duty, who already speak of 'censorship or pressure', with regard to Levi's decision and explains:" I have never heard of it in my life and I am the first to hope for a rethinking of the decision taken ».

And Levi himself confirms: "I expressed my choices as extraordinary commissioner, without having received any pressure or solicitation and to strictly fulfill the institutional responsibility that was conferred on me with a decree from the President of the Republic". Hence the renewal of the invitation to Professor Rovelli "to participate in the inauguration ceremony of Frankfurt 2024".

(Unioneonline/D)

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