In the winter of 1933, Camillo Sbarbaro began a correspondence with Giovanni Descalzo, a Ligurian writer in the early stages of his literary adventure: their rich correspondence extends until September 1950, shortly before Descalzo’s untimely death. The two poet friends touch on a wide variety of themes: their respective material and family difficulties, the war years, as well as the hopes and disillusions of their literary activities, but there are also more playful notes, such as their shared passion for Ligurian seafood cuisine. It is a lively picture that allows us to delve deeper into the personalities of the two correspondents, who were very different but shared a deep love for poetry. The correspondence, composed of a series of 31 testimonies including letters and postcards, is enriched by Francesco De Nicola’s accurate notes to the text that reveal many previously unpublished aspects of the lives of the two poets and the contemporary Italian literary world.