Excerpt from the address
Written heritage is not a silent remnant. It remains a resource of memory, a form of continuity and a call to responsibility. Through manuscripts, generations of knowledge, mediation and presence in the world are entrusted to us.
Our shared duty is to protect these traces, ensure their transmission and make certain that they remain accessible to the intelligence of our time, without separating them from their own dignity or from the communities that guard them.
Priorities restated
- support material conservation of the most fragile collections;
- encourage mediation formats suited to younger generations;
- structure useful partnerships with cultural and academic institutions.
Institutional scope
This address places the safeguarding of written heritage within a broader policy of territorial cohesion. It affirms that transmission is not peripheral, but one of the foundations of rooted and responsible public action.