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For Falco, Personal Notes, Insights and Notes" are the unpublished manuscript notebooks of Biagio Marin which are now held at the University of Pavia. The notebooks are the poet's private diary which he wrote during 1942 throughout January 1944, years that proved crucial for Italy which was engaged in the Second World War. Biagio Marin was one of the great Italians poets of twentieth century who wrote Canti de l'isola a poem in the Paleoveneto dialect of Grado. In these diaries he tells about his pain as a father who has lost his son in battle on 25 July 1943 and of his scandalized feelings as citizen and as an intellectual, confused by the ruin of his country, which is followed through the critical reading of the period's press.