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| − | '''Gianfranco Mazzilli''' was a sixteen-year-old [[Milan#Milan in The Gladiator|Milan]]ese boy who attended [[ |
+ | '''Gianfranco Mazzilli''' (b ''ca''. 2081) was a sixteen-year-old [[Milan#Milan in The Gladiator|Milan]]ese boy who attended [[Hoxha Polytechnic]]. Although he struggled to be an average student, his real passion was playing games at [[The Gladiator (store)|The Gladiator]], a store in Milan's [[Galleria degli Popoli]]. His favorite game was "[[Rails across Europe]]," which allowed him to pretend he is a railroad magnate in the nineteenth century. |
Gianfranco's father was [[Cristoforo Mazzilli]], an ''[[apparatchik]]'' in the Milanese bureaucracy. They lived on the same floor and share a kitchen and bathroom with the [[Crosetti]] family, whose daughter, [[Annarita Crosetti|Annarita]] was a year ahead of Gianfranco at school. |
Gianfranco's father was [[Cristoforo Mazzilli]], an ''[[apparatchik]]'' in the Milanese bureaucracy. They lived on the same floor and share a kitchen and bathroom with the [[Crosetti]] family, whose daughter, [[Annarita Crosetti|Annarita]] was a year ahead of Gianfranco at school. |
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Gianfranco Mazzilli (b ca. 2081) was a sixteen-year-old Milanese boy who attended Hoxha Polytechnic. Although he struggled to be an average student, his real passion was playing games at The Gladiator, a store in Milan's Galleria degli Popoli. His favorite game was "Rails across Europe," which allowed him to pretend he is a railroad magnate in the nineteenth century.
Gianfranco's father was Cristoforo Mazzilli, an apparatchik in the Milanese bureaucracy. They lived on the same floor and share a kitchen and bathroom with the Crosetti family, whose daughter, Annarita was a year ahead of Gianfranco at school.
As Gianfranco became a better gamer, he noticed he was able to relate his schoolwork to the game, and so understand it. His grades began to improve. He even learned that his algebra teacher, Comrade Donofrio, was an avid player.
Like most patrons of The Gladiator, Gianfranco was puzzled about the source of the games the store sold. His attempts to gain information from store clerk Eduardo Caruso were thwarted by the clerk's caginess.