80-year-old does school-leaving cert

(ANSA) - Brindisi, June 13 - An 80-year-old pensioner from Brindisi sat his school-leaving certificate Monday - the diploma Italian youths get at the end of the third year of middle school, at the age of 14.
    Antonio Pugliese is a retired farm worker who has spent his life working in the fields.
    Pugliese went back to school to set up a kitchen garden with one of his nine children, and gradually hatched the idea of finally getting his leaving cert. "He was really excited, but nervous," Vincenzo Pugliese said after his father sat the first part of the exam among the youngsters.
    A friend said: "He'll be unbeatable in history: he's had personal experience of the last 80 years".