È in corso il restauro conservativo del Duomo di Milano. Un ... - Eni
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FOCUS<br />
Simbolo<br />
<strong>di</strong> valori<br />
<strong>di</strong> LUIGI MANGANINI<br />
Cattedrale <strong>di</strong> dolore e <strong>di</strong> gioia,<br />
segno <strong>di</strong> una <strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>terrotta storia<br />
<strong>di</strong> fede: <strong>il</strong> <strong>Duomo</strong> occupa<br />
un ruolo <strong>in</strong>sostituib<strong>il</strong>e nella vita<br />
<strong>del</strong>la grande metropoli m<strong>il</strong>anese,<br />
sempre più cosmopolita.<br />
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DA ALCUNI ANNI, LA CATTEDRALE APPARE –<br />
per <strong>di</strong>rla con <strong>il</strong> Manzoni – quasi come una “gran<br />
macch<strong>in</strong>a” (I promessi sposi, XI), come un “eterno<br />
cantiere”. Essa si mostra <strong>in</strong> parte “velata” ai<br />
nostri occhi, ma non è privata <strong>del</strong> suo naturale splendore e<br />
cont<strong>in</strong>ua ad essere <strong>il</strong> centro pulsante <strong>del</strong>la vita religiosa e<br />
civ<strong>il</strong>e <strong>del</strong>la città e <strong>del</strong>la Diocesi <strong>di</strong> M<strong>il</strong>ano, i cui “conf<strong>in</strong>i”<br />
sono ben più ampi <strong>del</strong>la cosiddetta “area metropolitana”.<br />
Il <strong>Duomo</strong> e la sua Piazza sono da sempre legati alla città e i<br />
m<strong>il</strong>anesi ne hanno fatto un costante punto <strong>di</strong> richiamo e <strong>di</strong><br />
<strong>Eni</strong>’s Way<br />
<strong>in</strong>contro nei momenti più significativi <strong>del</strong>la loro storia passata<br />
e recente. Gli avvenimenti gioiosi e tristi nella vita<br />
<strong>del</strong>la città accompagnano le <strong>di</strong>verse fasi <strong>del</strong>la costruzione<br />
<strong>del</strong>la Cattedrale, facendone – come amava def<strong>in</strong>irla <strong>il</strong> Cattaneo<br />
– <strong>il</strong> “teatro <strong>del</strong>la vita religiosa e civ<strong>il</strong>e” (Il <strong>Duomo</strong><br />
nella vita civ<strong>il</strong>e e religiosa <strong>di</strong> M<strong>il</strong>ano, p. 51) durante<br />
l’occupazione francese e quella spagnola, <strong>il</strong> regno <strong>di</strong> Napoleone,<br />
f<strong>in</strong>o alla restaurazione austriaca <strong>del</strong> 1814. Come<br />
non ricordare qui l’Arcivescovo Andrea Carlo Ferrari, con<br />
la sua estrema vic<strong>in</strong>anza alle vicende <strong>del</strong>la città e alle sue<br />
<strong>Eni</strong>’s Way<br />
A SYMBOL<br />
OF VALUES<br />
Cathedral of pa<strong>in</strong> and joy,<br />
sign of an unbroken story<br />
of faith: the <strong>Duomo</strong> holds<br />
a unique role <strong>in</strong> the life<br />
of <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly<br />
cosmopolitan M<strong>il</strong>an.<br />
by LUIGI MANGANINI<br />
FOR SOME YEARS THE CATHEDRAL<br />
has appeared – to say the way<br />
Manzoni <strong>di</strong>d – almost as a “big<br />
mach<strong>in</strong>e” (The Betrothed, XI),<br />
as a “perennial bu<strong>il</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g site”. It stands<br />
partly hidden from our eyes, but it is<br />
not deprived of its natural splendour<br />
and cont<strong>in</strong>ues to be the throbb<strong>in</strong>g<br />
centre of religious and civ<strong>il</strong> life <strong>in</strong> the<br />
city and <strong>in</strong> the <strong>di</strong>ocese of M<strong>il</strong>an, whose<br />
“borders” stretch far wider than the socalled<br />
“metropolitan area”.<br />
The <strong>Duomo</strong> and its Piazza have always<br />
been bound to the city and the<br />
M<strong>il</strong>anese have made the two of them a<br />
constant po<strong>in</strong>t of reference and<br />
meet<strong>in</strong>g place for the most mean<strong>in</strong>gful<br />
moments of their history, past and<br />
present. Happy and sad events <strong>in</strong> the<br />
city’s life accompany the various stages<br />
of the Cathedral’s construction, mak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
it – as Cattaneo was fond of say<strong>in</strong>g –<br />
the “theatre of religious and civ<strong>il</strong>ian<br />
life” (Il <strong>Duomo</strong> nella vita civ<strong>il</strong>e e<br />
religiosa <strong>di</strong> M<strong>il</strong>ano, p. 51) dur<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
French occupation and the Spanish<br />
one, under Napoleon’s reign up to the<br />
Austrian restoration <strong>in</strong> 1814. How can<br />
one fa<strong>il</strong> to remember Archbishop<br />
Andrea Carlo Ferrari, with his extreme<br />
closeness to the city’s events and its<br />
social problems. How can one forget<br />
Card<strong>in</strong>al Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster who<br />
– right <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Duomo</strong> dur<strong>in</strong>g his sermon<br />
on the first Advent Sunday of 1938 –<br />
spoke strongly aga<strong>in</strong>st the racial laws<br />
issued by royal decree just four days later (November 17). And<br />
aga<strong>in</strong> his soul troubled by the bomb<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> August 1943 on the<br />
already long-suffer<strong>in</strong>g city, when not even the Cathedral was<br />
spared. As Pope Paolo VI wrote <strong>in</strong> 1963, who had known and<br />
loved the Cathedral when he had been M<strong>il</strong>an’s archbishop: the<br />
<strong>Duomo</strong> “embo<strong>di</strong>es the faith of a population express<strong>in</strong>g itself,…<br />
a whole community, a whole society, a whole history”. And the<br />
memory comes back aga<strong>in</strong> of the funerals, <strong>in</strong> 1969, for the<br />
Piazza Fontana massacre and, just 24 years later (<strong>in</strong> 1993),<br />
those of the Via Palestro bomb victims.<br />
IL DUOMO E LA CITTÀ.<br />
Centro <strong>di</strong> culto e <strong>in</strong>teresse<br />
artistico, luogo <strong>di</strong> appartenenza<br />
civ<strong>il</strong>e e sociale, la cattedrale<br />
è <strong>il</strong> simbolo che ha scan<strong>di</strong>to<br />
oltre sei secoli <strong>di</strong> storia.<br />
THE DUOMO AND THE CITY.<br />
A centre of worship and art<br />
<strong>in</strong>terest, a place of civic and social<br />
belong<strong>in</strong>g, the Cathedral<br />
is a symbol that has marked<br />
over six centuries of history.<br />
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