The Man Who Lived Twice

From con artist and petty criminal to illustrious scholar and family man

The nameless “Collegno amnesiac” (Wikimedia Commons)

If you often miss appointments, forget birthdays and anniversaries, or lose your car keys all the time, your Italian friends could jokingly ask you if you are the smemorato di Collegno.

The expression, meaning “the amnesiac man from Collegno” is still used in Italy to mean a…