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ti 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 Teatro degli Indipendenti. "Come with me to a 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 crossed out: come for ^spend an hour or so ^with me, 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'Annunzio and Verga in the inspiration of a modern literary movement in Italy and the importance of such personalities as Italo Suevo and Giovanni