Giacomo Antonini, G.B. Angioletti and Massimo Bontempelli

Frederic Prokosch and Goffredo Bellonci talk during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Piero Jahier and Piero Bigongiari during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci and Bonaventura Tecchi during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Goffredo Bellonci during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Mrs Silone with Indian delegate Dhingra Baldoon and wife during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

British poet Stephen Spender and wife during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Gino Doria, Giacomo De Benedetti, Sibilla Aleramo, Mrs De Benedetti during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Salvatore Quasimodo, Anna Banti, Giorgio Federico Ghedini e Goffredo Petrassi during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Kate O'Brien and Lora Reynolds sit and talk during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Mario Praz, Maria Bellonci and Bonaventura Tecchi during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Bonaventura Tecchi during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Goffredo Bellonci, Frederic Prokosch and Mario Praz during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Dino Alfieri walks in Piazza San Marco during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Frederic Prokosch, Maria Bellonci,Mrs Silone and Mario Praz during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti e Maria Bellonci in the forefront of an authors group during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden talks to Mrs Bojorkamn during the Pen Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci pins the PEN Club Meeting pin on Ignazio Silone's jacket in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Frederic Prokosch, Maria Bellonci and Mrs Silone during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Giovanni Comisso and Milena Milani during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at Venice's City Hall during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and his entourage have a gondola ride during the Pen Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Goffredo Bellonci, Ignazio Silone and Frederic Proskoch during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci and Umberto Morra talk during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci and Minister of Education Guido Gonella during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci pins the PEN Club Meeting pin on Ignazio Silone's jacket in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci and Giuseppe Ungaretti smile at each other, Jules Supervielle sits between them. Venice, September 1949 during the PEN Club meeting (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Erich Kästner and Robert Neumann talk during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Maria Bellonci and Jules Supervielle talk during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Antonina Vallentin and Louis Golding during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Giovanna Bemporad and a fan during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Wynstan H. Auden and Alberto Moravia talk during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Erich Kästner and Robert Neumann talk during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

John Dos Passos and wife Mary Elizabeth Halin Holyridge stand in front of the canal side entrance of the Gritti Palace Hotel in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Giorgio Vigolo during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Ignazio Silone and wife and Maria Bellonci during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Lora Reynolds and Bonaventura Tecchi talk and laugh during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and his entourage have a gondola ride during the Pen Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Jules Supervielle and Giuseppe Ungaretti sit and talk smiling during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at Venice's City Hall during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Carlo Levi and Alberto Moravia during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Robert Neumann during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Giuseppe Ungaretti during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Alberto Moravia, Mrs Murray and Reuben Avinoam (Grossman) during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Mrs Piovene and Francesco Flora during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Enrico Falqui, Gianna Manzini and Salvatore Quasimodo during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden talks to Mr Keller during the Pen Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden during the Pen Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti, Goffredo Bellonci and Gino Doria during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Mrs Silone and Prince Wilhelm of Sweden during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Enrico Falqui, Gianna Manzini and Salvatore Quasimodo during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Birgit Linde and father Ebbe Linde during the PEN Club meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Mme de Baker, Mme Max Dueville and Mme G. Sghers sit on steps during the PEN Club Meeting in Venice, September 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).