Post-war stabilization, 1920–22: ‘Rispetti e strambotti', Tre commedie goldoniane', ‘San Francesco d’Assisi’, etc.

In a slightly disparaging note, dated 1951, about Impressioni dal vero II and III, ¹ Malipiero declared that the third set (composed in 1921–2)

represents a sustained effort to overcome the spectres and nightmares left behind after the tragedy I had lived through, which prevented me from setting my mind free, so occupied was it with black thoughts.