“The lessons were also held during the war: at the most, when arrived the bombing, the kids and teachers ran to the shelters. This is so impressive, the decision to close the schools in Milan that seems to be told from the pages of Manzoni. Between the lines on the plague in “the Betrothed” I found similarities with these days of anxieties about the coronavirus, hunting the enemy: yesterday, the alemanni today the chinese. So I wrote my kids an email of thoughts and advice because the suspect does not turn into a hunt for the untore, why not see the other as a threat. Because the true risk of these diseases invisible if you’re not careful, it is a barbarization of social life”.
Domenico Squillace , the calabrian ’56, six years dean of liceo Milan, has written a letter to his boys on the website of the institute, then turned off the chat. The words in which Manzoni and Boccaccio, demonstrate their actuality, and in the pages of centuries ago seem to tell the story of our days with the coronavirus, photographing anxieties, barbarization, hunting food as evidenced by the supermarkets emptied.
