Paolo Emilio Taviani Quotes

1912–2001 Italy

Paolo Emilio Taviani (6 November 1912 – 18 June 2001) was an Italian political leader, economist, and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus. He was a partisan leader in Liguria, a Gold Medal of the Italian resistance movement, then a member of the Consulta (the national assembly gathered to direct the transformation of the monarchy into a republic) and the Constituent Assembly, later of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death.

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To explore does not mean to be the first to reach a place: it means to get there, to return, and to tell someone about it so that they can follow the same route.

No more killings out of personal hatred; no more revenge! Justice has already been delivered through the People's Tribunals, and it will continue to be delivered through the Special Assize Courts.

At that time, it was war – war against those who had wanted war, against those who deserved nothing but war.
Today, there is peace – peace desired by a people who have helped to win it, a people who are asking for work and peace of mind.

By the time he settled in Portugal, Columbus was already dreaming of a great idea. In Porto Santo and Madeira, he gathered clues and signs from which he could deduce that the Atlantic did not plunge into an abyss at all, but rather lapped against other lands to the west.

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