LXXXIX
Silence and solitude reigned in that room of Bologna’s Maggiore hospital. The only noises that could be heard were the ones produced by the machines there, that the doctors went to check on regular intermissions during the day.
For a few days now Luigi Mazza’s body was lying motionless in a coma medically inducted by the staff of expert anaesthetists after the hard hit at the head that caused a concussion healable, according to the doctors, only in that way.
Being noticed of what happened, Mario ran to the hospital straight away.
Without realizing anything, Luigi was daily visited by his brother, that could limit himself to watch it from behind a window. He stayed about one hour every day, staring at him in the vain hope that he could give him for the second time the strength to
