Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Notes on the Texts and Their Translation -- Introduction: 'A Force of the Past' by Ara H. Merjian and Alessandro Giammei -- Texts -- For Manzù's David (1942) -- Notes on George Besson's 'French Painting 1900-1940' (1943) -- On Light and the Painters of Friuli (1947) -- An Anthology of Zigaina's Paintings (1948) -- Paintings by Zigaina (1948) -- Picasso (1953) -- Dialectal Painting (1954) -- From 'My Longing for Wealth' (1955) -- Zigaina's Painting (1955) Toti Scialoja (1955) -- Fabio Mauri (1955) -- Renzo Vespignani (1956) -- 'Piero's Frescoes in Arezzo' (1957) -- Two Poems for Federico De Rocco (1959, 1963) -- Renato Guttuso: 20 Drawings (1962) -- Venting about Mamma Roma (1962) -- From 'Technical Confessions' (1964) -- The Art of Romanino and Our Time (1965) -- From 'Observations on Free Indirect Discourse' (1965) -- I Started Painting Again Yesterday (1970) -- What Is a Teacher? (1970) -- The Mongoloide at the Biennale Is a Product of Italy's Subculture (1972) -- Lorenzo Tornabuoni (1972) -- Roberto Longhi's From Cimabue to Morandi (1974) Carlo Levi's Painting (1974) -- Caravaggio's Light (1974) -- Nabil Reda Mahaini: God's Flag (1975) -- Andy Warhol, Ladies and Gentlemen (1975) -- Plates -- Editorial History of the Texts -- Acknowledgements -- Index