Mattarella says beneficial if powerful read more instead of writing autobiographies

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - President Sergio Mattarella told a delegation from the Strega Book Prize on its 80th anniversary Tuesday that it would be beneficial if the powerful read more instead of writing autobiographies. We must remember "the decisive contribution of culture in accompanying the birth of the new Italy." A contribution, in that period, "to taking weapons out of hands and putting a book in our hands," said Mattarella, receiving a delegation from the Strega Prize at the Quirinale P...

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