“Now I’m going to stop,” Leonardo Altobelli told local media Monday on the eve of getting a criminology degree in the new investigative sciences department of his local Foggia University.
Altobelli, who was a family doctor until he turned 70, has also served as mayor of his town, Troia, near Foggia.
His previous 14 degrees span law, political science, Italian literature, philosophy, pedagogy (twice), agrarian science, food science and technologies, tourist sciences, history, biotechnology and archaeology, as well as a masters in criminology.
His university CV also includes seven diplomas in social medicine, sports medicine, health law and general medicine tutoring, to cite a few.
“I’m the oldest student in the world, but now after this degree, I’m going to stop, because I’d like to leave what I have done to future memory,” Altobelli told ANSA.
“I’ll devote myself to writing. I tell young people to love everything they do.
“To embrace their work, and to do it with a smile and calmly.
“I’ve always had a passion for study. That’s why I call myself a ‘student of the world’.”
ANSA
