Francesco, 18, is a model student. But he has never seen his school, due to a serious illness that prevents him from leaving the house. He set foot there today for the first time, after 5 years, to take the final exams. Before this morning the high school had seen him through the computer camera, in his 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", he tells ANSA Francesco Elia Rizzo, graduating from the "C. Marchesi" classical high school in Padua. "I was very impressed - he continues - to see for the first time some of my teachers, with whom I had only spoken online.And I think it was like that for them too. "Francesco is suffering from a severe immunodeficiency, which prevents him from having contact with the outside - if not in protected ways - or simply even from touching objects that are not safe. Classmates , 5 / A Cc, has seen them a couple of times in 5 years, in the garden of his house, once for his birthday. Measure and carefully select the words this 18-year-old, a great passion for studying, and in general for all the activities that allow him to '' get out 'of a condition of forced life.. For the exam he presented himself at 8.30, in the main hall of the' Marchesi ', with the examination board lined up. An interview of 80 minutes . "It was very serene - he explains - there was a good disposition on the part of the teachers.
I think it went well. Thesis? I brought an elaborate on 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 ".