A festival that combines science and music, social solidarity and culture, art and spirituality, anthropology and medicine. An event that looks in the perspective of preventive education to the future of the new generations, starting from the lessons of the past. But also an unprecedented review devoted to the common good that intertwines, from North to South, two cities of art (and of the sea) such as Venice and Naples: united by the red thread of a neo-humanism which, enhancing an often overlooked historical heritage of cultural heritage focused on caring for the person, it protects their dignity. It is no coincidence that the festival that kicks off in Naples tomorrow, Sunday 9 October in the Sala del Lazzaretto of the former Hospital of Peace, is entitled “A sea of health …”, thus inaugurating the First National Day of Italian Historic Hospitals of the ACOSI network (Association cultural historic Italian hospitals), which intends to make the general public aware of the reality of the historical, artistic and cultural heritage of the country’s ancient hospitals (libraries, museums, collections, churches) with promotional and educational projects. The history of health review, dedicated to the memory of My Filipponebeloved former dean, then deputy mayor and councilor for education in the council of Gaetano Manfrediprematurely passed away, will go on until October 15 with a full calendar of events in continuity with those put in place in Venice, from October 3 to 8 (through meetings and conferences with a cultural and scientific content in the Museo Scuola Grande di San Marco) with the intention of offering, explain the organizers, “a new proposal of knowledge of one of the most important legacies of Italian civilization: the care of the person through ideas, the religious spirit, art, inventions, humanity , that is the best of the heart and mind and of the Italians ».
Naples, in this, has always been a city of primates: you will be able to get an idea of it in the morning, on the occasion of the guided tours provided by the program (from 10 to 14) among the treasures of the Museum of Health Arts and History of Medicine in the Ospedale degli Incurabili, promoter of the Festival with the Museo Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice, but also at the Sala del Lazzaretto in the former Santa Maria della Pace Hospital and at the Santissima Annunziata Hospital Complex, in an itinerary to discover places in the center ancient of Naples where faith, art and health have traveled hand in hand over the centuries. On the afternoon of October 9, at 5 pm, the official inauguration of the festival: the scientific director of the Sanitary Arts Museum will open the works at 5 pm in the Sala del Lazzaretto of the Hospital of Peace, Gennaro Rispoli, with the presentation of the volume The splendor of care. Trip to the Italian Historical Hospitals by Acosi, and with the Major General Gabriele Lupini, of the National Inspectorate of the Italian Red Cross Military Corps. Afterwards, concert by the Soloists of theNational Academy of Santa Cecilia with music by Mozart, Durante and Paisiello.
“A sea of health – explains Gennaro Rispoli, surgeon and humanist, passionate bibliophile and collector of medical history materials – it is in memory of Mia Filippone because she has always been at the forefront against the evil of indifference and disengagement, authentic epidemics of our time to be overcome, as she did, with passion, knowledge and solidarity. Not surprisingly, on Thursday 13 October we will launch his idea of a project for a Museum of Health, to educate young people to care for themselves and others, and to prevention, not only by telling the epidemics and pandemics that have written the history of humanity, but also guiding those interested in the health professions to create a Health Laboratory-Museum in the Lazzaretto whose goal, according to Filippone’s idea, is to offer spaces also to universities and health and hospital companies to interface on health issues with citizenship and schools“.
Thursday, from 9 to 13, we will talk about it with Arturo De Vivowho will remember the living presence of his wife, a point of reference for many former students and not only, with the regional councilors Lucia Fortini, Armida Filippelli and the municipal councilor Maura Striano; with the regional director of the school office Ettore Acerra; with the professor of Radiology of the “Vanvitelli” Vincenzo Cuccurullo, responsible for the degree courses of the health professions. And in the presence of school leaders Pasquale Varriale (“Margherita of Savoy”), Daniela Oliviero (“Margherita di Savoia”) e Cristina Scaperrotta (“Genovesi”), signs of the leadership of the school, masterful reading of Bernardino Fantini, Emeritus Professor of History of Medicine in Geneva, on environment, health and epidemic diseases. To close the morning, Rispoli will speak on educating and guiding young people in videoconference with the pharmacologist Silvio Angelo Garattini.
The busy program of events also includes a stop, Monday 10 October, at the Ebris Foundation in Salerno – seat since the Middle Ages of the Salernitana Medical School, crossroads of Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew medical knowledge – to then resume the meetings in Naples, in the Sala del Lazzaretto, where from Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 October doctors, university professors, historians will discuss the spirit of medicine, and the relationship between culture and medicine, care and literature, science, charity and art, ethics of the health professions in their narrow relationship with the complexity of the human condition and, again, of the link between medicine and philosophy, of humanism and science in hospitals and clinics, to soothe loneliness, isolation and stress of healers and the sick, and of how to defend the ancient wards from decay for recover the social and health history of a people, also recalling the scientific heritage of Domenico Cotugno 200 years after his death and the role of Lady Montagu for the spread of the smallpox vaccine, in the testimony of her scholar Maria Teresa Giaveri (Wednesday 12 October). During the meetings, there will be moments of reading and music, with artists such as Francesca Rondinella And Chiara Di Girolamo. Grand finale on Saturday at 6 pm, with the concert ofRome Fountains Youth Orchestrawith 45 young musicians who will perform pieces by composers linked to the history of illness and health in the city of Naples.
History of medicine and prevention, Rispoli: “A museum-laboratory in memory of Filippone”