Lessons about attitudes towards the elderly from my teacher

Abstract

Even if I have been properly introduced, I believe that a bit more needs to be said regarding my background. This is not necessary because I would believe that it is necessary to stress my importance further, but because my background has a relevance regarding what I am supposed to say here at my lecture. I will try to give the lecture in Italian and I am grateful to Dr. Gianluigi Passerini for translating it in Italian. I am also begging you to excuse me for my poor pronounciation. I have never learned Italian in a systematic way and the only way I have learnt it was by spending my holidays with my grandfather and grandmother in Pirano, which is a bilingual city on the Adriatic coast. These are one of the most pleasant memories of my childhood.