(ANSA) - PADUA, 16 JUN - Francesco, 18, is a model student. But he has never seen his school, due to a serious pathology that prevents him from leaving the house. He walked there today for the first time, after 5 years, to face the final exams. Before this morning the high school had seen her through the computer camera, in her room, connected online with the class and classmates. "Today I experienced a double emotion: the one linked to the exam was more intense, as it is for everyone. But it was also exciting for the place I entered, which I actually saw for the first time", tells ANSA Francesco Elia Rizzo, graduating from the "C. Marchesi" classical high school in Padua. "It made a great impression on me - he continues - to see some of my teachers for the first time,with whom I had only spoken online. And I think it was the same for them. "Francesco is suffering from a serious immunodeficiency, which prevents him from having contact with the outside - if not in protected modalities - or simply even from touching objects that are not safe. / A Cc, he has seen them a couple of times in 5 years, in the garden of his house, once for his birthday. He measures and carefully selects the words this 18-year-old, a great passion for studying, and in general for all the activities that allow him to '' to come out 'of a condition of forced life.. He presented himself to the exam at 8.30, in the main hall of the' Marchesi ', with the examination board. An interview of 80 minutes. "It was very serene - explains - thereit was a good disposition on the part of the teachers.
I think it went well. Thesis? I brought an elaborate of justice and law, Greek and Latin, a text by Aristotle, and Cicero's 'De Legibus'. "" How do I see my future? Much depends on a bone marrow transplant that was already scheduled 2 years ago. In any case, the study is a fundamental 'space' (in a broad sense) of my life ". (ANSA).