Paolo Volponi’s correspondence with Pier Paolo Pasolini between 1954 and 1975 retraces the writer’s own poetic development in which Pasolini’s influence is tangible. Pasolini was a central figure in Volponi’s life, a friend and master to whom he submitted his poetic texts for suggestions and advice. Pasolini’s influence is palpable not only in Volponi’s poetry, but also in the development of his narrative, the prose of which began even to invade his letters. Volponi’s letters to Pasolini bear witness to the authors’ mutual intellectual and human affinity, the fruit of their profound friendship and community of opinions on politics and society that only the death of Pasolini could interrupt. Italian text.