20My arrival point was supposed to be another! I have always thought that: men who know, less know. And then, to be honest, I felt a bit tired, not so much physically as psychologically. I felt the effort made: I had graduated in just 4 years and I had also fulfilled my military obligations.
A certain degradation took me, and not so superficially, when I learned that the competition for 15 places in the diplomatic career had gone wrong: it was not so much for the negative result as for the statement made in this regard by a friend of my father, he told me in Neapolitan jargon explicitly to "think of another dish", because, by insisting in that field, I would have lost my useful time, being those places reserved only for nobles or personalities in view of the time regime.
I was then force
