Mario Morcellini

Vice Rector for Communication at the University of Rome La Sapienza and Commissioner of the Authority for Guarantees in Communications, Professor Morcellini has a scientific biography entirely set in the University of Rome La Sapienza.His studies have focused on television communication, journalism and digital networks, with a focus on the impact on minors and, more recently, on the relationship between the mass media and citizens' perception of security.

On a national level, his commitment was marked by the work of establishing the Faculty of Communication Sciences, coming to chair the relative Conference of Deans and Directors, succeeding Umberto Eco in this role and being recently elected Commissioner of the Authority. for Guarantees in Communications from the Senate of the Republic.

Professor. Morcellini is from Ficulle by birth and by vocation. Deeply linked to our territory, he has supported many research activities on Ficulle's past and numerous publications produced in recent years, thus helping to make it known in Italy and to preserve its historical memory. His researches and publications on the Monaco Graziano and his origins in Ficulesi are also noteworthy in the last period.

A sincere bond of friendship binds him to the town and its inhabitants. Since 2017 he has been an honorary citizen of Ficulle and it is not difficult to meet him walking through the streets of the village, especially on beautiful summer evenings. His contribution is never lacking in cultural events of greater value.

To him Ficulle owes the definition of the island that exists and one of the most beautiful and fascinating descriptions ever written:

But what is the historical-artistic background of this country? What defines it and makes it unique without losing elements of contact and continuity with other small Umbrian towns? On closer inspection, it is not a single work of art, but the whole, what scholars would say about the ecosystem. And therefore more the atmosphere, the balance between silence and noise, the continuum between houses and churches, the skyline of the landscape design. It was Alessandro Manzoni who first taught us to read the landscape as a work of art; the first to talk to us about the "spectacle of places", and to describe that feeling in which a mountain, a church, a view but also the postcard of a country, enters the DNA of those who are born there or adopt it and become a piece of its visual and spiritual heritage. In Ficulle all this becomes simple and immediate; it is not an intellectual experience.