saccording to the minutes of the decision, the prize jury chose Nuccio Ordine “for his defense of the humanities and his commitment to education and the values rooted in the most universal European thought”.
“Ordine establishes a dialogue with contemporary society to transmit, especially to the youngest, that the importance of knowledge lies in the learning process itself. The usefulness of education must be understood in terms of passion for the pursuit of knowledge and the best of each person, without being limited to an economic interest. His academic work, centered on relevant figures of the Renaissance, highlights the need to recover the richness of humanism for the new generations”, reads the same document, released by the Princess Foundation from Asturias.
Nuccio Ordine, born in Diamante, Italy, in 1958, is a philosopher, writer and “expert in literary theory” recognized “worldwide as one of the greatest connoisseurs of Renaissance thought and literature”, highlighted the Princess of Asturias Foundation in a statement sent to the media.
With the works he has already published, he “managed to reach the general public” and “reflects on the marginal situation of the humanities in today’s world”, defending that they are “disciplines necessary for the civic formation of the human being and the creation of fundamental critical thinking for the development and social welfare”, reads the same communiqué.
The Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities distinguishes work “cultivating and perfecting the sciences and disciplines considered as humanistic activities” and work that “is related to the media in all its expressions”.
This prize has already been awarded in previous years to entities and personalities as diverse as the Polish journalist Adam Michnik (2022), the North American journalist and activist Gloria Steinem (2021), the Guadalajara International Book Fair and the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts (2020), the Prado Museum (2019), Les Luthiers (2017), Google (2008), Science and Nature Magazines (2007), National Geographic Society (2006), Umberto Eco (2000), Václav Havel and CNN (1997) and the newspaper El País (1983), among others.
This was the second of eight Princess of Asturias Awards to be awarded this year, in what is its 43rd edition, after last week the American actress Meryl Streep was chosen to receive the award for the Arts.
In the coming weeks, the awards for Social Sciences, Sports, Literature, International Cooperation, Scientific and Technical Research and Concordia will be decided.
Eight Princess of Asturias Awards are awarded annually, which distinguish “scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work” carried out by people or institutions at an international level.
The awards ceremony takes place in October, in Oviedo, and is presided over by the Kings of Spain and their two daughters, the eldest of whom, Leonor de Borbón, is the Princess of Asturias and heir to the Spanish Crown.
Each prize consists of a sculpture by the Spanish artist Joan Miró, a diploma, a badge and 50,000 euros.
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