Maturità: among the tracks Paolo Borsellino and young people, Pasolini, Tomasi di Lampedusa and the New Deal
The Baccalaureate 2025 affects just over 524,000 students. It kicked off today, 18 June, with the Italian test, and lasts a maximum of six hours and is common to all addresses
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A message from Judge Paolo Borsellino addressed to young people. And again: a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a passage from Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard, the 1930s and the New Deal, and social media and indignation. These are some of the tracks of the Italian test for the 2025 Matura, which affects just over 524,000 students. The Ministry of Education and Merit published the complete file with the entire Italian test late this morning.
Meloni and Valditara's messages
"Good luck to all the students who are about to face their baccalaureate. Come on guys! #Maturità2025." Council President Giorgia Meloni wrote this on social media; and the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, added: "Face this path with serenity and awareness and then there will be the summer holidays before another world, university and work".
Paolo Borsellino's message to young people
The first track of the topical theme - type C - recalls Judge Paolo Borsellino through a text entitled 'Young people, my hope', published in Epoca in October 1992, and reflects on the importance of the culture of legality brought to young people as a long-term deterrent to the proliferation of mafia culture.
The Respect
.The second track of Type B - argumentative text - is on the theme of 'Respect' and is centred on an article by the journalist of 'Avvenire', Riccardo Maccioni, indicated by his article as the word of the year according to Treccani and published on 17 December 2024 on the newspaper's website. It is a theme, that of respect, that is very close to Minister Giuseppe Valditara's heart, as even some of the ministerial measures of recent years have shown. Space is also given to a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Tomasi di Lampedusa and the New Deal
The first track of type B - argumentative text - is a text from the work by author Piers Brendon entitled 'The 1930s. The decade that turned the world upside down" in which he discusses the New Deal, the 'recipe' of US President Roosevelt after the great crisis of '29. Tomasi di Lampedusa's work proposed for the text analysis is "The Leopard", in particular the passage in which he talks about the visit of Angelica, Tancredi's fiancée, to the family of the princes of Salina. The third track of Type B - argumentative text - is centred on the passage entitled "A quarter of a (geological) era of celebrity" by philosopher and essayist Telmo Pievani, published in the quarterly magazine "Sotto il Vulcano", which reflects on the environmental impact of our civilisation.
