Fragile but with 'un viso sorridente' and a passion for his Library (in Italian)

Translation

AT – Poor thing, I remember that he came here when he was very old…extremely old - perhaps as old as I am now! I remember when he would pass by during those last times…he wanted to walk through the library, accompanied by one of those ladies who helped him at the time and who were so good with him. He was very frail, but nonetheless he came to the library, walking slowly, slowly, all wrapped up because he was always cold (laughs), but he was always smiling. And he passed by…At the time I worked in the area we called AB, and…and he passed by there…he was just…just fragile, you could see that he was fragile, but he was always smiling. He said very little but I got up, said hello to him, and he would pass by and go to see...he needed to see the library. To see…to walk all around the library. Anyway, it’s quite moving to think of that now, because the thing he liked most here was the library. More than the….oh, I don’t know, just to say the first thing that springs to mind …let’s say more than the part with all the paintings. For him the library was…I think that for him it was the most important thing.