5 Star Culture Minister: Settis and others who would turn down Di Maio's offer

According to rumors reported today by the daily La Stampa, the list of cultural personalities who have turned down the proposal to become part of a hypothetical 5 Star Movement-led government would be long. In the last few hours, the leader of the movement, Luigi Di Maio, has begun to present the list of his ministers, should the movement win the March 4 elections and go into government: however, the name of the person who will be in charge of cultural goods and activities is still missing.

However, the Turin newspaper published a list of names that would have turned down Di Maio’s offer: from Salvatore Settis, archaeologist, former director of the Scuola Normale in Pisa and member of the presidential council of Liberty and Justice, to Christian Greco, current director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, and Maria Pia Guermandi, archaeologist, head of the Cultural Heritage Institute of Emilia Romagna for European projects. La Stampa reveals that art historian Tomaso Montanari was also reportedly contacted by Di Maio and offered his availability, “asking, however, for guarantees on the intangibility of the Constitution, alliances and personal autonomy in sensitive matters such as immigration.” Montanari, however, would not receive a response from the Movement, and Huffington Post reports that the scholar would later decide to decline the invitation.

Image: Luigi Di Maio. Ph. Credit

5 Star Culture Minister: Settis and others who would turn down Di Maio's offer

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