The Giorgio Cini Foundation, born in 1951 at the behest of Vittorio Cini, in order to remember his son Giorgio who died tragically on August 31, 1949 in a flight accident in Cannes, is the first example in Italy of the creation of a private body that places between its main aims are humanistic research, in a period in which the focus of the collective interest was economics, science and technology. The choice made by Vittorio Cini to place the Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore is dictated by an extraordinary intuition. By electing the Island as the seat of the Foundation and placing its recovery and restoration among the statutory purposes, Vittorio Cini nominated his creature as heir to a centuries-old tradition, attributing to it the historical role and vocation of the institution whose mandate he intended to collect.
The first projects of the Foundation were aimed at solving some of the pressing problems that afflicted Italy and Venice in the immediate post-war period: on the one hand, the need for professional training of young people and, on the other, the lack of dedicated means and facilities to scientific and cultural research. Today, the Giorgio Cini Foundation is an internationally known cultural institution that continues to draw inspiration from its original vocation and stands out for being, at the same time, a center of study and a place for meetings and debates on contemporary issues. A space in which scientific activity constantly overlaps - with research projects and events that aim to improve "knowledge of the world" - and reflection on political and social current affairs that promotes multidisciplinary research and experiences the comparison between knowledge and different scientific and professional cultures, in order to provide new analysis and understanding tools, as well as favorable opportunities to "build a new world".
The Giorgio Cini Foundation is also an invaluable treasure trove of literary, artistic, musical and archival treasures, a meeting point for cultures and ideas, an elected place for the search for truth and the dissemination of knowledge, which perpetuates the tradition of the abbey Benedictine and the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Proceeding consistently along the furrow traced by Vittorio Cini, the Foundation has also launched a new strategy for the enhancement of the island which has led to the creation of the International Center of Studies of Italian Civilization "Vittore Branca", dedicated to the memory of the great Italianist and first Secretary General who was, with Vittorio Cini, the main initiator of the Venetian institution during the first fifty years of activity.
Giorgio Cini Fondations
Address: Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 30133
Phone: 041 271 0211
Site:
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