ABSTRACT
After the piecemeal unification of Italy in 1861, there followed a period in which anarchist activism became intellectually so heated that it was in danger of falling apart. Milano has long committed himself to writing, like the native Canadian philosopher and pedagogue Wilfred Pelletier, in the field of children's education in favor of anti-dogmatic, community and tribal experience. Less angry, though artistically very active, avant-garde culture in Rome was nothing if not exuberantly musical and theatrical throughout the 1960s. The cultural climate differed greatly from that of Milan and Turin; traditionally cosmopolitan, Rome welcomed foreign artists and VIPs who mixed with leading Italians, the older of whom were veterans of the dolce vita years. "Affanculo", according to its author, Aldo Piromalli, is "a spontaneous poem against philosophers and intellectuals". In Tella Ferrari, however, Beat women can be said to have found a luminary.
