Chapter LXXVI Fosco and Andrea -It’s not so simple, Andrea, or at least I don’t agree with all of it- -I understand this but every remark from the opposition is welcome if we help each other to look at reality in a different way- The two men, sitting in the shadow of Luciano’s oak tree, were jauntily talking. There weren’t many opportunities to meet and the ‘grandparents’ house ‘ was the best place to do it, the place where each of them belonged to. -You can’t, you cannot deny that over the last ten years the economic growth and social progress have grown at the same pace- -It may be, Fosco. It may be. Moreover, we can’t deny that the advances achieved from the post war period up to now have been incredible and have been the result of forward-looking choices of the new ruling clas

