![]() ![]() ![]() The semantic link between patrimony and possession/ownership – which goes to extremes with the securitization of public real estate – is challenged by the tortuous but constant advance of the movement of common goods which also affirms the theory of commons in Italy, shifting attention from belonging to use. This vision of patrimony as a Italy’s greatest wealth – the beautiful country made up of regions that compete for territorial primacy based on the highest number of “assets” – has nourished institutional policies, has created generations of graduates in the preservation of the cultural heritage and yet it has given very little to future generations which, when talking about inheritance, should be at the center of the debate. Thus “patrimonio”, the word that in Italian is most frequently used to name natural and cultural heritage, finds its roots in a patriarchal culture in which inheritance was essentially measured in economic terms. The native land is the land of the fathers, hereditary assets pass from father to son, in Italian “patrimonial” is the name given to tax on movable and immovable property that one owns. The words country, patrimony, property all share the root “pater”, father. ![]() How miserable life is in the abuse of power ![]()
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