Younger Gen-Xers (no, I don’t like the “old millennials” label) – and every generation before – remember the thrill of walking with mille lire in their hand to buy five pacchetti di figurine, or the comfort that same walk would give when it was the time of the week to buy Topolino or  Il Corriere dei Piccoli. 

And so, with a crisp note in the pocket, or a handful of change, we children of the 1980s would be there, in front of the local edicola, our newsstand, eager to get what we’d been queueing for.