We came back every afternoon, at first ringing up beforehand, and then not even doing that; and always the same group, with the exception, now and then, of Giampiero Malnate, who had known Alberto in Milan since 1933, and, contrary to what I had thought the first day when I met him outside the Finzi-Continis' gate, not only had never before seen the four young people he was with, but had nothing at all to do with the Eleonora d'Este tennis club or its vice-president and secretary, marchese Ippolito Barbicinti, either.
eta beti berberak, batzuetan Giampiero Malnate izan ezik; beronek 1933an ezagutu zuen Alberto Milanen eta, aurreko egunean Finzi-Continitarren etxeko atarian pentsatu nuenaren alderantziz, ez bakarrik ez zituen lehendik ikusiak ondoan zituen lau neska-mutilak, baizik eta gainera inoiz ez zuen zerikusirik izan ez Eleonora d'Este klubarekin, ez eta haren lehendakariorde eta idazkari Ippolito Barbicinti markes jaunarekin ere.