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His affection for young boys was reflected by the constant presence of young boys in his verses, as well as in his taking a 14-year-old street boy from Rome, Raffaele, to the home he shared with his mother in 1956 and living with him, on and off, for fourteen years.
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207:. Routledge. pp. 320–2.
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317:Vincenzo Cardarelli
118:fumava un sigaretto
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