12Even I had done something to complete the happiness of the family: I had obtained, with a high grade, the "elementary license" and I could enrol myself either at the first gymnasium or at the first technique.
For the circumstance, my mother turned to a teacher of her acquaintance, Miss Campopiano, she taught letters at the high school Umberto I in via Fiorelli, in the immediate vicinity of our house. I still have my mother's words in my ears: "Professor, this is my boyfriend. I should enrol him in the Technical School or in the Gymnasium and I do not know what decision to take. I would like an advice from you ".
The teacher, well aware of our family situation, especially from the financial point of view, was very explicit saying: "Madam, the technical studies are much shorter: after th
