Word: modugno
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
Cold Steel & Cowardice. When the math lesson ended, Giuseppe put his hand on the bulge in his pocket and left the classroom. Out in the corridor, Professor Modugno leaned against the door to light a cigarette. Giuseppe calmly took aim and tired three shots which hit his teacher in the right lung, the skull and the groin After giving himself up, he said he had planned to kill himself too, but decided it would be cowardly...
Professor Modugno regained consciousness only long enough to forgive Giuseppe before he died. Huge bareheaded crowds turned out to watch while schoolboys carried the coffin through Rome's silent streets. At the professor's bier in the Piazza di Spagna, Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini spoke for all high-school teachers: "Be good, boys and girls, be good...