Reach for the stars

By Carini's Students

Italian National heroes

Falcone and Borsellino by Giulia Franciamore

Giorgio Parisi by Samuel Gharsalli

Salvatore Quasimodo by Dario Cuccì, Riccardo di Pace and Francesco Calvaruso

Luisa Spagnoli by Davide Cuccì

The Florio family Saga by Chiara Paleggiati, Simona Badalamenti, Erika Gerbino and Gabriele Catalano

Franca Florio by Eleonora Kanhye

Liliana Segre by Gabriele Monteleone

Rita Levi Montalcini by Maria Roberta Gambino, Gabriella Giambanco and Ester Sgroi

Renzo Piano by Luca Ferrigno

Maria Montessori by Clelia Oneto

Thanks to the teachers Anna Maria Bevacqua, Anna Maria Taddeo and Valeria Baiamonte.

Italian National heroes

Falcone and Borsellino by Giulia Franciamore

Giorgio Parisi by Samuel Gharsalli

Salvatore Quasimodo by Dario Cuccì, Riccardo di Pace and Francesco Calvaruso

Luisa Spagnoli by Davide Cuccì

The Florio family Saga by Chiara Paleggiati, Simona Badalamenti, Erika Gerbino and Gabriele Catalano

Franca Florio by Eleonora Kanhye

Liliana Segre by Gabriele Monteleone

Rita Levi Montalcini by Maria Roberta Gambino, Gabriella Giambanco and Ester Sgroi

Renzo Piano by Luca Ferrigno

Maria Montessori by Clelia Oneto

Thanks to the teachers Anna Maria Bevacqua, Anna Maria Taddeo and Valeria Baiamonte.

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Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino

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The most important heroes fighting against the mafia. Their death has contributed to sensitize the public opinion on the phenomenon of Mafia in the effort to bring Mafia men to justice.

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✤Both gave life to Sicily's Antimafia Poool, a group of magistrates set up to investigate on Cosa Nostra and its infiltrations in the economic and political asset of the State.

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✤This brought to the so-called 'maxi trial' in 1986-1987, which led to the conviction of 342 mafiosi.

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✤The two men, who worked closely together, have posthumously become national heroes, martyrs of the country's ongoing attempts to get rid of the scourge of organized crime.
✤As members of the Antimafia Pool both lived under constant police surveillance for their own protection.

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Falcone's death did not establish the demise of the fight against the mafia

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✤On May 23rd 1992, Giovanni Falcone was assassinated in broad daylight, a crime that marked a turning point in Sicily's history.

✤Falcone and his wife, the magistrate Francesca Morvillo, were killed along with their three security escorts when a bomb exploded under their car on the highway near the town of Capaci, in what has become known as the "Capaci's massacre".

✤Two months after Falcone was murdered, fellow judge Paolo Borsellino was killed by another car bomb.
✤On a Sunday afternoon of July 19th 1992, a parked Fiat loaded with TNT outside his mother's house in Via d'Amelio,, exploded at Borsellino’s arrival. It was an awful shock for the entire civic comminity.

A Memento not to Forget

✤The mafia killers used more than 500 kilogrammes of explosives in the attack, which was ordered by the mafia godfather, Toto Rina, as a revenge for Falcone's attempts to break up their control of the territory.

✤The magistrate was killed along with five of the six police officers working to protect him that day.

Borsellino's death

✤The brutal attack has been instrumental in turning many Sicilians against the mafia. Especially young people felt the assassination as an event that changed their view of mafia as a phenomenon.

✤Two months after Falcone was murdered, fellow judge Paolo Borsellino was killed by another car bomb.
✤On a Sunday afternoon of July 19th 1992, a parked Fiat loaded with TNT outside his mother's house in Via d'Amelio,, exploded at Borsellino’s arrival. It was an awful shock for the entire civic comminity.

✤The magistrate was killed along with five of the six police officers working to protect him that day.

Totò Riina

Falcone and Borsellino

✤After their deaths they have received numerous awards and honors, gold medals for civil valor. Many schools and associations have been dedicated to the magistrates, including the "Falcone and Borsellino" international airport of Palermo

✤In 2017, the Cosa Nostra's so-called 'boss of bosses' Toto Rina - who ordered the killing of Falcone and Borsellino - died in prison.

"Chi ha paura muore ogni giorno, chi non ha paura muore una volta sola." (Paolo Borsellino)
Those who fear die everyday- those who don’t, die only once

"Gli uomini passano, le idee restano. Restano le loro tensioni morali e continueranno a camminare sulle gambe di altri uomini. "(Giovanni Falcone)
People pass, ideas remain. Their moral intent will continue to walk on the legs of other people.

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Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi is the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".
"Giorgio Parisi is a giant, one of those on whose shoulders future generations will sit to scan the horizon of science and take a further step towards knowledge".
A pioneer of complexity, his research of rules and balances inside chaotic systems hypothesizing mathematical instruments, may take to great discoveries in all the fields of human knowledge, from immunology to cosmology.