“There is still much, much reason for the Erinyes to stop spreading poison and death in our cities.” Introducing the concert “The Blood and the Word”, inspired by Aeschylus’ Eumenides, uses the President of the Constitutional Court Giuliano Amato used the Greek myth to affirm the primacy of the rule of law over vengeance – we knew the Erinyes had not disappeared, but we thought that the primacy of the logos, of the word over blood, in the world, especially in our part of the world. Then came the Ukrainian blood and the sense of the Eumenides became even more tragically actual.” The concert in Quirinal Square, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella – with the two institutions symbolizing the constitutional values in the background Presidency of the Republic and the Palazzo della Consulta – born from an idea of Nicola Piovani, promoted by the Court and organized in collaboration with Rai and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The text is freely adapted from Aeschylus Eumenides, from the Italian Constitution and the preparatory work of the Constituent Assembly.
“The Eumenids – explained Amato – tell of the celebration 2,500 years ago of the first trial, which was not based on revenge but on reason, not on the curse but on justice, not on blood that calls blood but on Logos , that persuades, and the Erinyes, terrible bearers of the ancients, shall be vanquished by the judgment of the Areopagus; not only that, they themselves will embrace the new world and become blessings, Eumenides. Thus the rule of law was born. These principles will then be affirmed in post-war Italy by our mothers and our constituent fathers and will become the core of the Italian constitution. The Consulta wanted and promoted this concert following the initiatives of recent years, from trips to Italy, in schools and prisons, to the podcast library, to promote constitutional culture, to make oneself known and known and to connect with the to strengthen civil society. More than a thousand people took part in Piazza del Quirinale: young people, professionals, intellectuals, but also some young people from Nisida, where Amato returned this year after his trip to the prisons, former prisoners, prison police officers, directors and relatives of victims of Crime.
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