“Columbus wished to achieve the Indies by circumnavigating the earth based mostly on the theories of Galileo Galilei”. That is the newest gaffe by the Minister of Tradition Gennaro Sangiuliano, pronounced final Sunday in the course of the Taobuk 2024 occasion on the Teatro Antico in Taormina. Nonetheless, the one about Columbus is just the newest, in chronological order, of the minister’s repeated slips. Final April 4, Sangiuliano, whereas collaborating within the presentation of the brand new archaeological stroll in Rome, had the truth is declared: “If we consider London we consider Occasions Sq.”, which is nevertheless positioned in New York. All this in response to a British journalist current on the occasion. Virtually a yr in the past, precisely on July 6, 2023, the minister had been the protagonist of one other gaffe whereas he was a part of the jury of the Strega Prize, a task for which studying the competing books is assumed. After praising the displays of the texts, Sangiuliano had nevertheless admitted: “I’ll attempt to learn them”. Lastly, on January 15, 2023, the Minister of Tradition interviewed by Pietro Senaldi on the Milanese FdI occasion, had said with none hesitation: “The founding father of right-wing thought in Italy was Dante Alighieri”.
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– 2024-07-19 17:37:59
