Editing Andrea Zanzotto (section)

===The war===
Called to military service, he received a deferment for his weak upper body and his severe allergy-related asthma, and thus was exempted from conscription into the army of '21, the protagonist of the military campaign in [[Russia]] and [[Greece]]. He then refused to respond to the recruitment of volunteers organized by the [[Fascist Party]].

He published a prose poem entitled ''Adagio'' in issue 10 of ''Signum'', and the first drafts of fiction, lyrical and prose, that would make up the older core of ''Sull'Altopiano'' ("On the Plateau", published in 1964) date back to that year.

An opportunity to publish presented itself in the collection of poetry assembled by the Florentine magazine ''Rivoluzione'', founded by [[Mario Tobino]], but due to the war, the periodical was forced to shut down.