*"He is the only person in our history to receive three of the city's highest honors."*
Perhaps owing to interest in the ceremony, which had been announced in national newspapers, some 4,000 city residents and SGI members gathered at Piazza della Signoria, the square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, and watched the ceremony unfold on a giant television monitor.
Prior to the ceremony's start, the main theme from President Ikeda's novel The Human Revolution was projected on the screen:
*"A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of all humankind"*
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