Febles' generous comments on the anthology in general and my 1970's Rome excerpt in particular, except to note that the nostalgia to which he refers is not for "by today's standards an unrecognizable city plagued by the remnants of fascist thought," but rather a melancholy celebration of gay, lesbian, feminist, Euro-Communist experience in what was then a place of vibrant progressive politics and social life against and mixed up with those nasty postwar hangovers.