Journalists, Poets and Scientists Honored at Ranieri Filo della Torre Prize

Summary

The Pandolea Association in Italy cel­e­brated the con­nec­tions of olive oil and the olive tree with cul­ture, art, and sci­en­tific research dur­ing the eighth edi­tion of the Ranieri Filo della Torre Prize award cer­e­mony, where jour­nal­ists, researchers, writ­ers, and poets were rec­og­nized for their con­tri­bu­tions to pro­mot­ing olive oil cul­ture. The event, held in Rome, hon­ored indi­vid­u­als such as Francesca Romana Barberini, Fabiola Pulieri, and Ylenia Granitto, who received an award for her work with Olive Oil Times and high­lighted the val­ues of human­ity and sis­ter­hood pro­moted by the prize.

The non-profit Pandolea Association in Italy cel­e­brated the broad con­nec­tions of olive oil and the olive tree with cul­ture, sci­en­tific research, art and com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

During the eighth edi­tion of the Ranieri Filo della Torre Prize award cer­e­mony, the orga­niz­ers rec­og­nized jour­nal­ists, researchers, writ­ers and poets for their work in explor­ing and pro­mot­ing the cul­ture of olive oil and the olive tree.

The award is named after a promi­nent fig­ure in the olive sec­tor, Ranieri Filo della Torre. He made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the indus­try’s devel­op­ment and was known for his high-mind­ed­ness and pas­sion for art and lit­er­a­ture.

The cer­e­mony took place in the audi­to­rium of the farm­ing orga­ni­za­tion CIA – Agricoltori Italiani head­quar­ters in Rome.

“We intend to con­tinue to cel­e­brate olive oil, a sym­bol of peace, with its mil­len­nia-long his­tory that inspired artists, painters, and poets who exalted its beauty, resilience, and sacred­ness,” said Loriana Abbruzzetti, pres­i­dent of Pandolea.

“Olive oil cul­ture is a liv­ing her­itage that is renewed gen­er­a­tion after gen­er­a­tion, and we all want to con­tribute to it,” she added.

Four spe­cial awards went to researchers and jour­nal­ists, includ­ing Francesca Romana Barberini, an author and radio-TV host; Fabiola Pulieri, a jour­nal­ist; and Laura De Gara, the deputy rec­tor of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome.

A jour­nal­is­tic award was given to Ylenia Granitto, a senior writer for Olive Oil Times.

“This award comes exactly ten years after I began col­lab­o­rat­ing with Olive Oil Times,” Granitto said dur­ing the cer­e­mony. ​“I con­sider the Ranieri Filo della Torre Prize a pres­ti­gious event not only for the pro­fes­sion­als it brings together and the cul­tural her­itage it has gen­er­ated over time, but also for the val­ues it strives to pur­sue and pro­mote, inspired by the enlight­ened fig­ure to whom it is ded­i­cated: val­ues of human­ity and uni­ver­sal sis­ter­hood and broth­er­hood.”

“My heart­felt thanks to Pandolea pres­i­dent Loriana Abbruzzetti for her remark­able ded­i­ca­tion and to all the women of this excel­lent orga­ni­za­tion that cre­ates rela­tion­ships and builds bridges, con­nect­ing peo­ple and cul­tures, also through its global net­work Pandolea International,” she added.

Granitto received a cer­tifi­cate crafted from byprod­ucts of the olive oil pro­duc­tion chain, demon­strat­ing Pandolea’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­ity, and a paint­ing by artist Giovanni Ragone.

In the awards sec­tion ded­i­cated to sci­en­tific research, the orga­niz­ers hon­ored Federica Falbo of the University of Calabria for her the­sis ​“Chemical mod­i­fi­ca­tions of polyphe­nols for the devel­op­ment of new mol­e­cules against high-risk dis­eases.” 

Ludovica Morrieri, a researcher at the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome, was also rec­og­nized for her the­sis ​“New approach for the deter­mi­na­tion of chem­i­cal para­me­ters and eval­u­a­tion of shelf-life of extra vir­gin olive oil through elec­tro­chem­i­cal sen­sor.” 

Addolorata De Santis from the University of Bari was awarded for her the­sis ​“Valorization of health claims and cor­re­la­tion with the extra vir­gin olive oil shelf-life” and Kevin Cornali of the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome was also recon­gized for his the­sis ​“Role of func­tional foods, obtained from cir­cu­lar econ­omy, and adapted phys­i­cal activ­ity in chronic kid­ney dis­ease.”

More than 40 lit­er­ary works were sub­mit­ted to the orga­ni­za­tion.

Tiziana Monari, Milena De Magistris, Donatella Menolli and Vincenzo Mancino each received an award for their poetry.

In the nar­ra­tive seg­ment, Luca Prati, Andrea Polini and Alessia Conflitti were hon­ored. In the haiku cat­e­gory, Fiorenzo Fedrigo, Francesca Pecorella and Dennys Cambarau were awarded.

The group of actors ​“Lettori giULIVI” read short sto­ries, poems, and haikus dur­ing the event.

These works were included in the col­lec­tion ​“Olive and olive oil, sym­bols of the Mediterranean,” pub­lished by Orbis Editori.

Agrarian insti­tutes were also rec­og­nized for their work in olive oil pro­duc­tion. The ​“Diploma d’Argento” awards for the best extra vir­gin olive oils pro­duced in high schools went to the insti­tutes G. Cavallini in Novara, Poppa-Rozzi in Teramo and Kennedy in Monselice.

The event was orga­nized by Pandolea, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with CIA – Agricoltori Italiani, the National Academy of Olive and Olive Oil, with the sup­port of AIFO (Italian Association of Olive Oil Millers) and the national com­pe­ti­tion Ramoscello d’Oro.

The Ranieri Filo della Torre Prize’s social media pages offer more infor­ma­tion and the reg­is­tra­tion form for the next edi­tion.