Rome, detained for thirty years, graduated with a thesis on detention

Detained for thirty years, Giuseppe Perrone comes out of prison to graduate. With a permission granted specifically for the discussion of the thesis (this is the first time this has happened), he has obtained the master’s degree in Information Sciencesof publishing communication, at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

While he was in his cell, he devoted himself with so much commitment to studying, thanks to the Tor Vergata “University in prison” project, a training activity managed by the Roman university within the Rebibbia Nuovo Complesso prison.

“It’s time for reconciliation through study and culture. This is the key word of the thesis work “, explained Fabio Pierangeli, associate of Italian Literature and Contemporary Travel Literature of the Faculty of Letters in Tor Vergata, supervisor of Perrone’s thesis (entitled” The abysses of punishment. Primo Levi “). “Through great pages of literature, with an important focus, on Primo Levi”, explained the speaker to theHandle, «The thesis reconstructs the metaphor of detention. But they are not just words: Giuseppe Perrone, also through some poems, reconstructs his prison experience with depth and irony“.

The prisoner’s wife and son also participated in the discussion of the thesis. Who had not seen him, in person, for two and a half years, due to the anti Covid regulations. «I am very excited. For him it is the culmination of a dream », she explained to Republic his wife Sonia Reale. «Culture as a form of redemption? Certainly. But right away, from the arrest, I saw another person. Suffering leads you to understand the distance of affections e lacking everything you are led to choose the best side of things“. To make his wife and son proud, also the result that Giuseppe Perrone has obtained: he graduated with 110 cum laude.

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