"Frederick II - Europe 2000",
project is due deep historical, cultural, sociological, educational and touristic reasons.
It is inspired by the requests contained in the opening of the geographical and political
boundaries and by the great moments which, during the XIII and XIV centuries, had already
given birth to the fervid enterprises for new frontiers. These enterprise, at the court of
the Great Curia of Palermo, predicted Renaissance from a political, cultural and artistic
point of view and the following eras which made the modern thought be prepared for the new
dimensions of Europe. Frederick II of Swabia, certainly, was one of the precursors of the
new visions of the word, and particularly of Europe. The relations among Sicily, Italy,
Europe and the Mediterranean culture, in an averall view, have found wide space in
circuits which have created works of art, of military and civil architecture, of
literature and science, this way overcoming narrow minded visions of the world, which
nowadays, in spite of centuries of civilization, still persist with manifestation of
racism and individualism. Frederick II , king of Sicily an Italy, emperor of Germany,
incarnates, with his polyhedric personality, the synthesis and the projections of the
European and Mediterranean culture and civilization. The vision of an united Italy, of an
Italian nation, of an European, Mediterranean and cosmopolitan civilization, of an Europe,
anyhow, rich in culture and traditions which, far from mingling, communicate and enrich
themselves, anticipates of many centuries the events and aspirations of a contemprary
word. The passionate intellectual of this souvereign represents the typical expression of
a man who wants to learn many languages and wants a word where Greek, Arab, Jew, Sicilian,
German, Italian, Frankish and other people of Europe and of mediterranean area, would give
the most eloquent example of cultural synthesis, of meetings, communicative hypothesis,
now demanding on the threshold of the third millenium, even though each person would be
still expressing different languages, religious faith, civilizations, Mediterranean and
European culture, than, for the growth of the word.
Edoardo Fontanazza
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"Frederick II - Europe 2000",
project is due deep historical, cultural, sociological, educational and touristic reasons.
It is inspired by the requests contained in the opening of the geographical and political
boundaries and by the great moments which, during the XIII and XIV centuries, had already
given birth to the fervid enterprises for new frontiers. These enterprise, at the court of
the Great Curia of Palermo, predicted Renaissance from a political, cultural and artistic
point of view and the following eras which made the modern thought be prepared for the new
dimensions of Europe. Frederick II of Swabia, certainly, was one of the precursors of the
new visions of the word, and particularly of Europe. The relations among Sicily, Italy,
Europe and the Mediterranean culture, in an averall view, have found wide space in
circuits which have created works of art, of military and civil architecture, of
literature and science, this way overcoming narrow minded visions of the world, which
nowadays, in spite of centuries of civilization, still persist with manifestation of
racism and individualism. Frederick II , king of Sicily an Italy, emperor of Germany,
incarnates, with his polyhedric personality, the synthesis and the projections of the
European and Mediterranean culture and civilization. The vision of an united Italy, of an
Italian nation, of an European, Mediterranean and cosmopolitan civilization, of an Europe,
anyhow, rich in culture and traditions which, far from mingling, communicate and enrich
themselves, anticipates of many centuries the events and aspirations of a contemprary
word. The passionate intellectual of this souvereign represents the typical expression of
a man who wants to learn many languages and wants a word where Greek, Arab, Jew, Sicilian,
German, Italian, Frankish and other people of Europe and of mediterranean area, would give
the most eloquent example of cultural synthesis, of meetings, communicative hypothesis,
now demanding on the threshold of the third millenium, even though each person would be
still expressing different languages, religious faith, civilizations, Mediterranean and
European culture, than, for the growth of the word.