Galeotta was the honor, one might say. But then again, everyone has always known that love has no age. Confirmation, if ever it were needed, comes from the Sassari writer Bianca Pitzorno , born in 1942. «I fell in love this summer» , she tells Corriere della Sera. «Crazy. He is ninety-one years old. Ten more than me."

He doesn't mention his name, even if he asks to write it down, "we'll give him the statement in the press." But the clues he provides leave no doubt: «He is a well-known neuropsychiatrist, with a career in California, now back in Sardinia. Study the memory of snails, they have their madeleines too." This brief description would be enough to identify Gian Luigi Gessa , a luminary from Cagliari and internationally renowned pharmacologist.

But the further details provided by Pitzorno sweep away any misunderstandings. Especially when they ask her if they are together now: "But no," she replies. «We have never spoken to each other. We received the honor of Custos Civitatis together." And who knows if this "new novel" will now have a new chapter.

(Unioneonline/L.Ne.)

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