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to voglio bene!" // By the second winter in Rome I had evolved into an implacable anti-facist. The more so, perhaps because I had come to know Umberto Barbaro and with him, something of the young intellectuals in the orbit of Marinetti and his Treatus degli Indapendenti. "Come with me to spot where we all meet for a glass of wine after the performance. Anyone can ask for the floor and hold a talk. I'd be so pleased if you should feel like doing so." Barbaro used to spend an hour or so with us, several days a week, and we read and discussed the major Italian poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century. It was with Barbaro that I first read the poems of Leopardi and it was in the frame of his thoughtful scholarship that I came to appreciate the significance of D'Annvizo and Verga in the inspiration of a modern literary movement in Italy and the importance of such personalities as Itado Sveco and [??]