Mario Novaro was the brother of the better-known Angiolo Silvio Novaro, who enjoyed fame disproportionate to his literary talent in the years between World Wars I and II; his reputation was due mostly to his contributions in children's literature. Mario, instead, was a poet whose value has yet to be fully recognized. In order to rectify this situation, an important congress was convened at Oneglia, Imperia, Italy, in 1987. The conference ultimately uncovered the profundity of Novaro's intellect and poetry. Similarly the 1975 edition of Murmuri ed echi (Murmurings and Echoes, 1912), the only volume of poems and prose poems produced by Novaro, gave definitive form to his poetic production. The collection represents virtually his entire career in poetry because Novaro reworked and polished the compositions almost uninterruptedly right up to the time of his death in 1944. He devoted much time to refining the poems' lexicon, phrasing, and punctuation, as well...