The student from Avezzano Maria Barbieri wins the national Italian championships in Ercolano

Avezzano. Marsica and Abruzzo triumphed at the 13th edition of the Italian National Championships (formerly the Olympics), thanks to Avezzanese student Maria Barbieri, proclaimed winner of the competition during the live broadcast from the Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum, where the awards ceremony was held. The Italian Championships are a competition organized and promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit and included in the annual Valorization of Excellence Programme. The competition aims to encourage and deepen the study of the Italian language, an essential element of the cultural education of every student and an indispensable basis for the acquisition and growth of all knowledge and skills.

Barbieri, 15 years old, who attends class 2A of the Liceo Classico “A. Torlonia” of Avezzano, was the only student from the city to reach the final phase of the national championships, after having passed the previous heats, the institute phase and then the regional semi-final with worthy scores, competing in the junior category, reserved for students of the two-year period of secondary schools. Yesterday you took the last test of the competition, held in Ercolano, in the province of Naples, and today the extraordinary news of the victory arrived, which rewarded the efforts and commitment made by the student from Avezzano during her school career.

“I am very happy with the result achieved by the student”, says her Italian teacher, Cristina Larosa, who adds: “Maria is a mature and responsible girl, multifaceted in her interests and characterized by a great sensitivity of soul”. The head teacher of the institute, Damiano Lupo, also welcomed the news with great satisfaction and pleasure, congratulating the student on a victory that brought prestige to the entire “Torlonia” high school. The whole school is celebrating today, considering that no student from Abruzzo until today, since the Italian Olympics were established, had achieved such an important result.

Yesterday, during the national final, the 15-year-old from Avezzano was called upon to carry out a rather demanding and complex paper, which involved the creation of a synthesis, with a limit of drafting, of a short essay, the composition of an informative text for a leaflet starting from two attached photographs of the artist Dorothea Lange and, finally, a creative text that recounted, with a journalistic style, Marco Polo’s return to Venice.

After the proclamation, Prof. Gianluca Barone, a Crusca academic, read the judgment of the examining commission which decreed the victory: “The jury appreciated the re-elaboration and synthesis skills shown in the summary test. An excellent lexical richness emerges from the productions, supported by a non-trivial syntactic structure and clear and correct writing that fully responds to the linguistic and textual characteristics required by the works”.

During the awards ceremony, moderated by Dr. Carla Guetti of Dgosvi (General Directorate for school systems, evaluation and internationalization of the national education system) of the Ministry of Education and Merit, among others , Dr. Lucia Fortini, school councilor of the Campania Region, Prof. Stefania Montesano of USR Campania, Embassy Counselor Maeci Filippo Romano, Prof. Carla Marello of the Accademia della Crusca, Prof. Pietro Tifone of the Association for the History of the Italian Language, prof. Vincenzo Caputo, of Adi (Association of Italianists).