“He made mistakes and moved with the grace of an elephant”

2023-05-26 19:52:06

“Despite the kindness and grace of his doing, Levi actually did some mistakes in which he moved with the grace of an elephant“. Thus the Undersecretary of Culture Vittorio Sgarbi comments on the letter from time.news resignation as extraordinary commissioner of Italy at the Frankfurt Book Fair which Ricardo Franco Levi delivered yesterday afternoon into the hands of the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano. “There were a series of episodes – observes Sgarbi – First at the Book Fair he carried out an action against Carlo Rovelli which was a political action that could have seemed ‘rightist’ but which none of us had asked him for. Then today I read that someone has noticed that he has nominated the communication office in which his son works for the Buchmesse: this series of coincidences, linked to a lack of cunning that has turned against him, have forced to backtrack“.

Levi’s way of proceeding “does not denote a great capacity for dialogue that would be necessary to converse with the government”, then sinks Sgarbi. Which reports a recent episode in which he met the president of the IEA: “He came to see me -Sgarbi recounts- and while discussing the construction of the Italian pavilion at the Frankfurt Fair he told us that he had already chosen Stefano Boeri, without any openness to dialogue on other possible figures. I had thought of Gaetano Pesce, but he was adamant saying that he had already chosen Tito Boeri”. Basically, “with this set of non-communicative attitudesfound himself in a situation that led him to resign -adds the Undersecretary for Culture- I believe it is the consequence of a series of positions assumed in an autocratic way, which does not seem to me to be the best way to dialogue with the ministry of reference”. Is there already any idea who the new commissioner could be? “The neighbor will not have to obey the right – Sgarbi says – but act in a dialogic way“.