Does Professor Alpa download Conte?
Giuseppe Conte in the slightly too detached story of Professor Guido Alpa, who surprisingly says that he was neither his teacher nor his mentor. The Scratches of Damato
If it is not a distance, we are close to it. Interviewed by Corriere della Sera , professor Guido Alpa, "a failed biologist and jurist by chance", as Stefano Lorenzetto defined him when talking about his studies, has somewhat denied the idea that Giuseppe Conte has left his school as a professor and of lawyer. “He was already an assistant in civil law at Sapienza – he said – when I arrived there in 1991. I was neither his teacher nor his mentor. We worked together on a few practices and wrote a four-handed book, but he was never an associate of mine. The noble Pasolini dall'Onda rented him the studio above mine. He closed it when he became prime minister. It seemed like a crime to me because I respect him very much, he is a very fine jurist ”. But perhaps not so much a political goal, it seems to be understood.
On the other hand, Conte did not even consult Alpa when he decided "unfortunately" to "devote himself to politics full time". "His public career – said Alpa – is independent from my ideas", which were and I think have remained the socialist ones, even if the professor did not tell the interviewer.
Granted, I would say, as "Conte's best advantage" the fact that he is "very intelligent, very patient and very tenacious", the professor reserved a certain surprise for us by talking about the "worst flaw". Which is that of not having “the perception of time”, of “arriving late for appointments because you forget to wind your watch”. We hope that someone has given him an automatic one, now that he is president of the 5 Star Movement and he must even turn it inside out like a sock.
Is it normal – Lorenzetto asked him – that he has presided over two consecutive governments of opposite sign? “I posed the same objection to him,” the professor replied. Who continued recalling with a certain skepticism "the project to be pursued with both coalitions" mentioned by Conte after having discharged the Northern League and embarked on the government of the Democratic Party. And what was this project? The journalist rightly asked him. Listen to the answer that seems to me frankly not at all political, but a bit conventual, from a convent, with which the former Prime Minister has some familiar familiarity, and not only as a devotee of Padre Pio . “Conte – said Alpa – is deeply religious. It is very sensitive to social justice, to fundamental rights, to the protection of the weak. In them he sees the image of Christ ”. “Over time – explained the professor to the interviewer curious to know its orientation – my religiosity has become secular. But I too feel close to the poor, the humble, the immigrants ”, as a good socialist, as I remembered.
Having let slip, answering the question if he had voted for Virginia Raggi in Rome, to "vote for luck in Genoa", his Genoa, the professor tried to make the interviewer believe he was seeing "pentastellati with sympathy" in order to have them " tried to introduce new forms of political participation ”. "But the task that Conte has assigned to himself seems difficult to me", he concluded, however, I do not know frankly if he is really aware of this "task", if ever the former Prime Minister wanted or managed to explain it to him out of his conventual conception of life and assuming a bit of that concreteness that even the adoring friends of the Fatto Quotidiano begin to feel, seeing him struggling with “il risiko” grillino.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-professor-alpa-scarica-conte/ on Sat, 06 Nov 2021 07:54:37 +0000.