Extracts From "The Warrior": Ab Urbe Condita & Per Aspera Ad Astra
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These pages, full of emotions, vitality and lightheartedness typical of adolescence, deal with an ordinary boy attending High School in the 1960s, and his teenage life. With a direct and authentic style, words become almost carnal, like the passion and the love that the protagonist feels, and that describe his first relationships with girls. Fantasies, obsessions, dreams and hopes that do not portray just a young man’s life, but also emblematic years, namely the 1960s, which can be re-experienced when reading this engaging and moving novel. Like in a magic time inversion, this book will make you relive the past. Will it be able to stop the future as well?
Per aspera ad astra (Tthrough Difficulties to the Stars)
After High School, the “warrior”, the young protagonist of this book, enrols at university. He strives to earn an Industrial Chemistry degree in five years, dodging what the author calls the “asteroid storm” of 1968, a “civil war” that changed millions of people’s lives and that destroyed the “dinosaurs” of that era. It is a tricky phase for Italy’s future, a phase of creation and destruction at the same time, where people think of the future but hold on to the values of the past: family, honesty, work and meritocracy. The young student has a hard life. He tries to graduate and to live a happy love relationship with his girlfriend, despite the violent student riots and the temptations represented by the many “enchantresses” living in his world.
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Intro
Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City)
These pages, full of emotions, vitality and lightheartedness typical of adolescence, deal with an ordinary boy attending High School in the 1960s, and his teenage life. With a direct and authentic style, words become almost carnal, like the passion and the love that the protagonist feels, and that describe his first relationships with girls. Fantasies, obsessions, dreams and hopes that do not portray just a young man’s life, but also emblematic years, namely the 1960s, which can be re-experienced when reading this engaging and moving novel. Like in a magic time inversion, this book will make you relive the past. Will it be able to stop the future as well?
Per aspera ad astra (Tthrough Difficulties to the Stars)
After High School, the warrior
, the young protagonist of this book, enrols at university. He strives to earn an Industrial Chemistry degree in five years, dodging what the author calls the asteroid storm
of 1968, a civil war
that changed millions of people’s lives and that destroyed the dinosaurs
of that era. It is a tricky phase for Italy’s future, a phase of creation and destruction at the same time, where people think of the future but hold on to the values of the past: family, honesty, work and meritocracy. The young student has a hard life. He tries to graduate and to live a happy love relationship with his girlfriend, despite the violent student riots and the temptations represented by the many enchantresses
living in his world.
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THE FIRST CLASS OF THE LICEO
At the end of the day, my new High School, the Liceo Classico Augusto was simply in another area of Rome,
…
even though it was, effectively, as if we had moved to another city. After months of unusual arguments, I managed to convince my father to let me enrol there.
…
I will