"memory between chronicle and tradition"

Wednesday 1st July at 05.00 p.m., in the seat of Municipal Historical Archive of Naples in Salita Pontenuovo 31, there will be the meeting on theme "memory between chronicle and tradition" during which there will be the presentation of the reprint of a text dated 1776, kept in the citizen's Archive, that describes the course of the Blessed Sacrament procession.
The work, made with lead print, in enriched by 3 etchings realized for the occasion by the Master Vittorio Avella, inspired to the procession itself and to the other symbols of the city, from its escutcheon to the Horse that according to the legend has been realized by Virgilio and a copy of which can be seen in the Archive, too.
The presentation is enriched by an exhibition cared by the Master Alfonso Caliendo, inspired by the theme of the passage of time and by the search for what will rest after the happening of events.
The initiative is sponsored by the municipal authorities within the political measures that aim to exploit the Memory of the town.
The councillor Diego Guida, who has a proxy for the memory of the town, has said on this:
"The municipal Administration, in the last years, has always invested money in relaunching the municipal historical archive. The bet is to promote the revival of little art works by finding in them spaces linked to the past of the city.
This especially because, as Henry Bergson said <>, and past can be recovered and controlled only by memory. Nowadays, the memory we preserve in documents, is the privileged way to stop in time facts and circumstances, that help us to discover the social and cultural roots of every person and nation. So, working and investing on memory, means extending the borders of knowledge and constructing on history the basis of future.
The oblivion in which we have fallen by ignoring Nietzsche who suggested of thinking only to the present time, by dissolving links with past, has given a push to the future but has also produced an idea of belonging to "hic et nunc", in a world without roots, in which especially young people have problems in constructing a self and conscious identity. Open the archives and promote activities in them, means to restore to them a new physiognomy, by orienting them with a new consiousness in the present time".