Award for Civil Valor
The awards for Civil Valor are the honors the
Historical background
On 30 April 1851,
The
In the modern Italian Republic, the law of 2 January 1958, Number 13, governs the awarding of medals for civil valor.[1]
Award criteria
The awards for civil valor can be made for specific acts, which include:
- Saving people exposed to imminent and grave danger;
- Preventing or diminishing the damage caused by a serious public or private disaster;
- Re-establishing public order where it has been gravely disturbed and maintaining the rule of law;
- Arresting or participating in the arrest of malefactors;
- Performing acts aimed at the progress of science or in general for the good of humanity;
- Keeping the name and prestige of the country high.
Types of awards
Depending on the circumstances of time and place in which the action was performed and on the effects achieved, four different types of award can be presented:
- Gold Medal for Civil Valor
- Silver Medal for Civil Valor
- Bronze Medal for Civil Valor
- Certificate of Public Merit for Civil Valor (award has no ribbon)
The certificate is awarded by the
Award procedure
The law provides (Article 7) that the granting of recognition normally will follow an examination of the courageous act by a committee composed of a prefect, a senator, a deputy, two members representing the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, a general of the Carabinieri, a representative of the Carnegie Foundation, and a member of the civil administration of the Ministry of the Interior. However, if "the character of the courageous act and the resonance that it has aroused in public opinion" are sufficient to attest to the propriety of the honor, the President of the Italian Republic can proceed with the recognition without the evaluation of the commission (Article 8).
Notable recipients
Individuals
Silver Medal for Civil Valor
- Felice Napoleone Canevaro (1838–1926), for humanitarian aid and contributions to public health while in command of the battleship Italia during a cholera epidemic in La Spezia in 1884.[2]
Municipalities
Of particular significance are medals for civil valor the Italian Republic has awarded to cities, municipalities, and provinces in recognition of the acts of heroism credited to the entire community during war, natural disasters. or other tragedies at various times in Italy's national history.
Gold Medal for Civil Valor
Municipalities decorated for acts of self-denial during Italy's participation the Second World War (1940–1945)
- Acerra (awarded for collective heroism following a Nazi German massacre on 2 October 1943; 67 men and boys and 15 women and girls were killed, including 14 children, 48 elderly people, and 20 other adults)
- Ancona (awarded in 1960)[3]
- Argenta (awarded in 1973)[4]
- Avellino
- Benevento (awarded in 1961)[5]
- Boves (awarded in 1963)[6]
- Bucine (awarded in 1963)[7]
- Castelforte (awarded in 2002)[8]
- Civitella in Val di Chiana[9]
- Foggia (awarded in 2007)[10]
- Francavilla al Mare (awarded in 1959)[11]
- Isernia (awarded in 1960)[12]
- Marsala[13]
- Matera (awarded in 2016)[14]
- Messina (awarded in 1959)[15]
- Ortona (awarded in 1959)[16]
- Paternò (awarded in 1972)[17]
- Rimini (awarded in 1961)[18]
- Santi Cosma e Damiano (awarded in 2002)[19]
- Trapani (awarded in 1961)[20]
Municipalities decorated for natural disasters
- Florence (awarded in 1968 following a 1966 flood)[21]
- Legnago (awarded in 1883 following an 1882 flood)[22]
- Verona (awarded in 1883 following an 1882 flood)[23]
Municipalities decorated for other events
Silver Medal for Civil Valor
- Viterbo[25]
- Ceccano[26]
- Velletri
- Cisterna di Latina[27]
- Foligno[28]
- Leonessa
- Stia[29]
- Terni[30]
- Tolentino
Bronze Medal for Civil Valor
- Capracotta[31]
- Civitella del Tronto[32]
- Fidenza[33]
- Monte Argentario[34][35]
- Poggibonsi[36]
- Pignataro Interamna
References
Notes
- ^ Fonti normative sul sito istituzionale del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ treccani.it Gabriele, Mariano, "CANEVARO, Felice Napoleone," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 18, 1975. (Italian)
- ^ VISITA DEL PRESIDENTE CARLO AZEGLIO CIAMPI: 19-06-2000 Visita alla regione Marche. 19 – 21 giugno 2000 (Italian)
- ^ Argenta – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Benevento – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Boves – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Bucine – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Castelforte – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Comune di Civitella in Val di Chiana – Sito del Quirinale Archived 2013-09-05 at the Wayback Machine (Italian)
- ^ Foggia – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Francavilla al Mare – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Isernia – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Statuto Comunale Città di Marsala (Italian)
- ^ Matera – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Messina – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Ortona – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Paternò – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Rimini – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Santi Cosma e Damiano – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Trapani – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Firenze – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Legnago – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Verona – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Bologna – Sito del Quirinale (Italian)
- ^ Statuto della Città di Viterbo(Italian) Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Amministrazione Comunale di Ceccano (Italian)
- ^ Lapide medaglia d'argento al valor civile alla Città di Foligno – Guida Foligno Wiki (Italian)
- ^ Lapide medaglia d'argento al valor civile alla Città di Foligno – Guida Foligno Wiki (Italian)
- ^ Lapide Sito del Quirinale – Assegnazione onorificenza a Stia (Italian)
- ^ Volume realizzato dalla Presidenza del Consiglio Comunale di Terni per i 60 anni di Consiglio Comunale (1946–2006) pp. 42–43. (Italian)
- ^ Sito del Quirinale – Assegnazione onorificenza a Capracotta (Italian)
- ^ Sito del Quirinale – Assegnazione onorificenza a Civitella del Tronto (Italian)
- ^ borgosandonnino la storia di fidenza(Italian) Archived 2013-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Comune di Monte Argentario – Organi istituzionali (Italian)
- ^ Un Oscar romano al popolo del Giglio – Cronaca – il Tirreno (Italian)
- ^ Comune di Poggibonsi Archiviato il(Italian) Archived 2013-02-13 at the Wayback Machine