became strength ; I felt that a new extraordinary consonance was being formed between what was happening in the world and what was happening in me ; I understood that until that moment I had been similar to a fetus in formation , waiting to be born , that in those years in that place I was born a second time ”.
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Spinelli was sent into exile , first to Ponza in 1937 after serving 10 years in prison , and finally to Ventotene in 1939 where he met Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni , who were his main interlocutors in the fertile debate that resulted in the Manifesto , with the participation of Ursula Hirschmann , the ‘ giellisti ’ Dino Roberto and Enrico Giussani , the Republicans and veterans of the war in Spain Giorgio Braccialarghe and Arturo Buleghin , and the young Slovenian from Ljubljana Milos Lokar .
On this island , a training ground for life , segregation and ‘ re-
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