Great participation at yesterday's event at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome at the meeting "From the pandemic to war: physical and emotional marginalization. The impact on the territory as told by the media", which saw a succession of prominent figures on the current scene, experts industry and mental health professionals.

The critical issues generated by the years of the pandemic and the difficulties of the economic situation linked to the conflict in Ukraine have brought the issue of mental health and isolation back to the fore, which has especially affected young people. Many topics were addressed and risk factors highlighted at various levels within a multidisciplinary and stimulating discussion for speakers and listeners.

The event was possible thanks to the funding of LazioCrea, Lazio Region, on a public notice dedicated to the Municipalities of Lazio and private bodies for cultural, social and tourism initiatives in the territory of the Lazio Region. LAZIOCrea Spa Annualita 2022 interventions.

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"Dalla pandemia alla guerra: emarginazione fisica ed emotiva. L’impatto sul territorio raccontato dai media” 1°dicembre 2022 ore 15.30, Pontificia Università Gregoriana Piazza della Pilotta 4 - Roma

Everything is ready for the award ceremony of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize. The event is scheduled for Saturday 18 September, at 3 pm, in the Throne Room of Palazzo Passarini Falletti in Rome.

The Passarini Falletti palace it is a noble palace located in via Panisperna 207, in the historic center of the capital, precisely in the Monti district. It was built in the first half of the eighteenth century, in place of a previous architectural settlement from the seventeenth century. The Throne Room is a bright environment enriched by Murano chandeliers and a ceiling with wooden coffers.

On this occasion, "Flights of butterflies and bumblebees" will be available, the anthology of the XI edition of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize, published by “Terra d'ulivi”, with the authors, texts and motivations of the winning works.

Despite the lockdown, which forced the date of the award ceremony of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize to be moved to September, the 2020 edition recorded "such a large number of works of high literary value", commented the president of the Award, Renato Fiorito. "Despite the difficult conditions - recalled Fiorito - poetry always mysteriously finds its ways to invade the lives of many".

To encourage participation, also due to social distancing regulations, the event will be broadcast live on the Prize Facebook page.

The list of winners of the XI edition of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize

Let's keep the memory of Luigi Di Liegro alive

For the published poetry section, the 1st Di Liegro poetry prize went to Maria Luisa Vezzali with the work “All this is gone”. Claudia Di Palma instead, she was the winner of the unpublished section with "The document was written well". However, we will have to wait for the Awards Ceremony, given the limitations imposed by the coronavirus.

This year, over 260 authors participated in what the organizers call "a poetry festival to which everyone is invited, a unique and fraternal way of getting to know and appreciate each other".

The Don Luigi Di Liegro International Award, organized in collaboration with the literary site The Beautiful Poetry, was born to promote those values of solidarity and hospitality that were typical of Don Luigi's work and wants to contribute to the diffusion of poetry, as a tool for emancipation of the spirit and refinement of the perception of reality.

The website of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Award

Let's keep the memory of Luigi Di Liegro alive

Registrations are open forXI edition of the International Poetry Prize named after Don Luigi. The Award was created to promote the values of solidarity and hospitality that were typical of Don Luigi's work, as well as the study and valorization of literary art as an instrument of emancipation of the spirit and refinement of the perception of reality, paying specific attention to cultural and moral development of the young generations.

The deadline for submitting works is next February 16, 2020. The awards ceremony will take place in June 2020 in Rome.

They are allowed works by Italian and foreign authors, written in Italian, in dialect or a foreign language, provided that they bear the Italian translation on the front, and who have not ranked first in other literary competitions.

The Award is divided into two sections:

Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize, in its seventh edition, named after the founder of Caritas of Rome, priest of the "last", man of charity. An event, organized by the literary blog The Beautiful Poetry, which promotes the values of solidarity and hospitality, which were typical of Don Luigi's work, but also a moment of exaltation of literary art as an instrument of emancipation of the spirit and moral growth

The works admitted to the final phase of the VIII Edition of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize are hereby communicated

SECTION A – SINGLE UNPUBLISHED POEM

SECTION B – EDITED POETRY

VIDEO POEMS SECTION

The works registered in the videopoetry section are all admitted to the final phase.

Registrations open for Don Luigi Di Liegro International Poetry Prize, in its eighth edition, named after the founder of Caritas of Rome, priest of the "last", man of charity. An event, organized by the literary blog The Beautiful Poetry, which promotes the values of solidarity and hospitality, which were typical of Don Luigi's work, but also a moment of exaltation of literary art as an instrument of emancipation of the spirit and moral growth

Tomorrow at 5.30 pm, in the headquarters of the Pontifical Gregorian University (Piazza della Pilotta, 4), the fourth edition of the Don Luigi Di Liegro prize for journalism and social research "For a fair economy" will be held. The "Don Luigi Di Liegro Award for journalism and social research" is established by the international Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation onlus, with the collaboration of the Province of Rome and the Pontifical Gregorian University, faculty of Social Sciences, to keep the figure alive and the work of Don Luigi Di Liegro. Speakers include Luigina Di Liegro, president of the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation; Nicola Zingaretti, president of the Province of Rome; Father Daniel McDonald, dean of the Gregorian Faculty of Social Sciences; Giovanni Anversa, Rai journalist; Marco Magnani, director of the Economic and Financial Statistics Service of the Bank of Italy. On this occasion, the Gabriele Berionne Foundation will award a special mention.”