06 June 2026
by Massimo Granieri and Franco Nembrini FRANCO NEMBRINI: We promised that we would give some examples of Virgil wandering around the desks today. Promise kept. Lorenzo attends the Amaldi high school in Rome. He doesn’t make use of religion, but at the beginning of the year he has to stay in class, where he listens to Francesco, his teacher. He says he was curious about his way of explaining life and that he spoke to him privately, without fear of judgement. After taking his course on the Divine Comedy, Lorenzo decides to ask for confirmation and wants the professor as his godfather. He writes intense words to thank him for having been the example of what he is, a guide in difficulties, a rock to whom one can entrust the most devastating doubts and the most delusional thoughts, the one who first gave them …
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