Ósip Mandelstam wrote in The Fourth Prose, I have many pencils, all stolen and of different colors, pencils sharpened at night with a razor blade. It is not difficult to imagine Gramsci sharpening those pencils in the manner of Mandelstam, to imagine him in the dim light amusing himself with a pencil and a razor blade. This image, perhaps that business card or that ticket that could be that razor blade, is the one that is somehow sought to be retained as a safeguard and sign of the reading undertaken here. One should not fail to mention, for all this, that Razgovor or Dante, that dialogue or conversation with Dante that the Russian poet dictated to Nadezhda Mandelstam in 1933, has usually been translated into Spanish as Colloquium on Dante.