A character from the Heart (colour litho)

A character from the Heart. Eugenia Barruero, the teacher with the red pen that De Amicis exalted in one of the most beautiful pages of her masterpiece, has died in Turin. Precisely inspired by that page, the painter Walter Molino has reconstructed the scene of leaving school here, with the teacher who runs like a child behind one and the other to get them back in line and there. always follows cheerful and smiling on the road. A pope is expecting his son, little Enrico, a third student. That pope is Edmondo De Amicis. The teacher, born in 1860, was then 26 years old. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 28 April 1957.