The power of childhood memories. I was too Catholic, apostolic and Roman. I wrote that although the Christian roots of Europe are obvious and undeniable for all Europeans, for both believers and agnostics, Jewish roots are less so (see this section 11 October). I perhaps succumbed thus to the subconscious power of childhood memories. Before the war and immediately after, all Italian children were submerged into a religious or para-religious reality determined by feast days, ceremonies,...