International Conference on Civil Rights: “The Neapolitan Case”

On Saturday, October 26, Dr. Massimiliano Verde, president of the scientific and socio-linguistic group “Accademia Napoletana”, spoke at the 1st International Conference on Civil Law at the Unianchieta University Center in Brazil, a conference desired by Professor Pietro Nardella Dellova and organized by the students of the Law course at FADIPA (Faculty of Law at the Padre Anchieta University), by the Group of Advanced Studies in Civil Law and Critical Theories of Law and by the RDC – Civil Law Journal of the Law Course at the Padre Anchieta University Center.

Verde’s report presented the “Civil Rights, of the Person and the Community. The Neapolitan case” conference,  focused on the status of art of the Neapolitan language and its speakers, today suffering a violation or at least a contrast with some international conventions that protect the rights of women, minors and stand against any form of racial discrimination that also includes cultural discrimination.

The neuralgic points, much paid attention to by the audience, also had regard to the representation and mass-media and cultural diffusion in Italy about  Neapolitan children and women, and in general the Neapolitan community that according to Verde is subjected to negative or mystified stories that more widely fall into a sort of cancel culture.

This is also through a literary and cinematographic vein as a sort of antisocial “pedagogy” connected to certain folklore and mystification of the reality and cultural history of Naples.

In Italy, Neapolitan is not recognized as a language despite it having a UNESCO ISO Code (nap), unfortunately, public initiatives in this sense are managed also locally by national organizations that aim for Italian, the national language.

On the contrary, Verde is the author of the first course of the Neapolitan Language according to the CEFR recognized by the Municipality of Naples (2017) according to the teachings of the most important and independent experts of Neapolitan (Carlo Iandolo and Raffaele Bracale).

Delegates and the audience of the conference, among which the names of Dellova, and Prof. Lawyer. Ivan de Oliveira Durães, and from Argentina, Dr. María Laura Jorajuría, greatly appreciated the speech by Verde who already collaborates with FADIPA being already a member of the Editorial Committee of the “Revista Direito Civil” of the same Faculty, directed by Prof. Dellova, also an illustrious collaborator of the Accademia Napoletana. Very important to the Conference, the collaboration of Ms. Isadora Rebelo and Maria Aparecida Nunes