The Mistery Of The Book. Angelo Grassia

had never done it, because after three hours he was still reading. He interrupted only when his wife invited him for the third time, more and more brutally, to sit at dinner table. Paki stood up, ate fast and returned to reading.

      The book was handwritten, but it was, in fact, not a book published by publishers, but it was a simple typewriter bound by a small artisanal workshop. On the blue color cover, imprinted with gold characters, we read the words "One Man to Remember". The book was made up of about 250 pages. Paki read it greedily until the end, and when he came to the last sentence, he found himself with a knot in his throat and his tears wet with tears streaming down from his eyes. He was so touched reading that story, who was sobbing for several minutes. The odd thing is that Paki in his life had read a dozen or so books and when he started reading he finished them after a week. That night he read the book all in one. That book had been written by a certain Vittorio, resident in Rome, to remember his father Luigi to those who knew him and esteemed him for his tenacity and for his courage in dealing with any adversity; and to make known to other people a man whose dignity is an example to many.

      Paki was very pleased to have known, reading the book, that lovely and dear father figure.

3

      Luigi was born in 1885 by a well-off and wealthy provincial family, and until the age of six he lived a thoughtless infancy, full of joys and caresses. Then an adverse wind dropped on his family, and in two years, due to financial collapse, he found himself in a fierce misery. The poor Luigi from one moment to another was forced to abandon the games and find a job to earn a living. He started as a barber's assistant, and in return for his little services, he provided for his subsistence.

      During this period of pain, he also lost his father, and he was forced with the family to leave the house and move to Naples.