“Sempre nel luogo più giusto, con i compagni più giusti”: Carlo Levi e Tommaso Fiore

The essay retraces Carlo Levi's relationships with the “maestro” Tommaso Fiore, a classicist, anti-fascist, and southern Italian thinker. Fiore, through his letters in La rivoluzione liberale (1925–1926), pioneered a style of poetic investigative prose on the conditions of southern peasants, which might have influenced Levi. The essay also explores other potential points of intersection between Levi and Fiore, such as the academic volume La poesia di Virgilio (1930), which could have inspired some famous passages in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli .