“Today we welcome Valerio Evangelisti, who left us on April 18 and attended the fourth school, Section C, in the 1966/67 school year.” Thus begins the memory – among the many who mourned his death in Bologna – that Galvani dedicates to the writer. The historical archive of the high school does this with a post in which his certificate is shown.
While Zero in Condotta dedicates a special to him that begins like this: “We don’t know if Bologna will ever dedicate a street, square, garden or public hall to him, but Valerio Evangelisti, beyond all rhetoric, certainly was one The “official city” remembers her (if she does) as she sees fit, but the self-governing spaces, collectives, political organizations, movement archives, the grassroots groups that evangelists visited and supported must keep his writings alive and His ideas must continue to spread his books because they represent a “universal” value in the history of the “oppressed classes”. And beyond any logic of “divided memory” that Valerio has always contradicted. “.
The funeral will take place tomorrow, April 22, at 11 a.m. in the Casigno cemetery, a hamlet of Castel D’Aiano. Galvani begins through the archives with a reminiscence of the writer who moved to Minghetti after “a disastrous fourth high school at rival high school, Galvani. Disastrous not for the results but for the environment. I had for classmates. Boys mostly rich or very rich who I had trouble bonding with. Also, there was a great spread of fascists, perhaps more in attitude than in ideology (I later learned that the same institute had Gianfranco Fini among its students, but I don’t remember)”.
“Impressive writer, tireless agitator”. The Bolognese left mourns the loss of Valerio Evangelisti
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Indeed, the Gymnasium recalls, “Section C was known in those years for a rather elitist social composition, although the Gymnasium’s ideological profile carried far less connotations than Evangelisti recalls”.
The occupations of the fathers (of course only the fathers) are given in the Class IV C transcript of that year: three industrialists (including Fabbri and Segafredo), six doctors, three notaries / lawyers, eight civil servants / clerks, a merchant, a journalist, a Editor and four university teachers. And Evangelisti’s father, didactic director. With grades: from 10 in behavior to 4 in Greek (oral) in the first quarter, then recovered and became 6.
Galvani’s comment concludes with an observation on the social composition of the classes at the time: “The first tentative effects of the middle school reform of 1962 can perhaps be seen in the presence of a pupil’s daughter of a milk collector”.