Drawing of the proposal for the National Archive in Firenze, Alessandro Anselmi In 1963, when I started teaching in the Faculty of Rome, in the complementary course “Letteratura Italiana”, student insurrections were about to mount. I immediately noticed that, among my students, there were a lot who knew things that I never heard or saw before and I understood that teaching and learning are two inextricable moments. I was obviously interesting in opening their horizon and explaining them things they didn’t know nor hear, but I was open to contamination, open to confrontation with those who “came later”. I remember, among my first students, Sandro Anselmi, Giovanna De Santis, Franco Purini, Laura Thermes, Renato Nicolini and Rosanna Fraticelli, the three couples that I watched form and then grow, and many others, like Franco Pierluisi, Pier Luigi Eroli, Anna di Noto, Paola Chiatante, Francesco Montuori, Duccio Staderini, Gianni Accasto, Lucio Valerio Barbera, Sergio Petru...