Museo Filangieri and U.S. Consulate Launch 36-Month Project to Preserve Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence

Fatti principali

• 24 documents from the 18th century are conserved at the Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri in Naples.
• The project "Preservare le Radici della Libertà – Preserving the Roots of Freedom" was presented on September 30 at the museum on via Duomo.
• It is funded with $210,000 from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) under the Freedom 250 edition.
• The project will run for 36 months, until September 2029.
• The correspondence between Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin dates from 1781 to 1787.
• Filangieri, born in 1753, authored Scienza della legislazione and died in 1788 at age 35.
• The project includes restoration, preventive conservation, digitization, a scientific inventory, training exchanges, a conference, and a final exhibition.
• The digital archive will be free and published under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.