When I went back to Italy at the beginning ofMay I found spring bursting out everywhere, the sprawling fields between Alessandria and Piacenza already yellow, the country lanes of Emilia full of girls out on bicycles, already barearmed and bare-legged, the great trees along the walls of Ferrara already in leaf.
Maiatzeko lehen egunetan, Italiara itzuli nintzenean, udaberria loraldi erdian aurkitu nuen, Alessandria eta Piacenza arteko belardiak hori ugariz zipriztinduta, Emiliako landetako errepideetan bizikletan hanka-besoak agerian zituztela zebiltzan neskak, Ferrarako harresietako zuhaitz handiak hostoz jantzirik.