We are sure of it. This boy will go far. Do you know him? His name is Edoardo Prati, he is a cultural influencer, he is twenty years old, smart and clever, but older than the classics he explains on social media, where he has thousands of followers, he only talks about literature, makes random Latin quotes and has a beautiful seventy-year-old voice. A cross between Raffaello Tonon from Big Brother and Matteo Renzi from Wheel of Fortune. Oh. He is successful above all among mothers and fathers. Proof that adults give credit to young people only when young people act old. Cultured, profound, an example of that hope that new generations can still instill, Edoardo Prati inaugurated the new school year the other day in the presence of the President of the Republic, in Cagliari. Where he gave a monologue of rare sensitivity, moving, passionate (perhaps, only, we would have advised him to use a little more rhetoric) in which he retraced the great stages of Italian literature. Ariosto, Tasso, Pascoli, Leopardi (not D’Annunzio, because he teaches us to lie to ourselves), Saba, Pirandello… up to the last and highest point. Michela Murgia.
Here. When he mentioned Michela Murgia we couldn’t hold back our tears.
There is no doubt.
Edoardo will make a career. He is also often a guest of Fabio Fazio on Che tempo che fa. Strange.
And for the rest, people when they want to act young are on average always disastrous. Imagine when they pretend to be adults.