The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati

Author:Edoardo Albinati
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

HISTORY (whether we spell it with a capital or a lower-case “h”) in any case, begins in a school run by priests on Via Nomentana, which at the time was a relatively outlying area considering that, just a few minutes of traffic farther out, once you’d left the populated settlement of Montesacro behind you, you found yourself in the open countryside. Via Nomentana, lined with pine trees and therefore shrouded in perennial shade, wound on through fields inundated with light, climbing and dropping as, every Wednesday afternoon, or else on Mondays, or Tuesdays, or Thursdays, depending on your age and the class section you were in, at 2:30 p.m., aboard a school bus, a certain number of students from the SLM Religious Institute were taken to the playing fields for a couple hours of physical education. What was primarily meant by physical education was chasing one another back and forth across dusty red fields, kicking up clouds of the stuff that, during periods of drought, were thick enough to screen the runners from sight, as they chased after an old leather soccer ball, dry and hard, which almost always seemed to be retrieved only to be sent sailing toward the opposite side of the field. Except for a few skilled soloists, who managed to keep the ball between their feet for a few seconds, the others, including yours truly, immediately rid themselves of the ball with a sharp forward kick, lofting it through the air like in rugby. The game as it is played today, with its spiderweb of passing in all directions, was unknown to us.

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