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London, 30 March 1890. Labriola. Dear Professor,—Please accept my 
thanks for the pamphlets you were so very good as to send me. I read the 
first, Del socialismo, with much interest and next week, when I hope to 
have some leisure, shall go carefully through the second one, that on the 
philosophy of history.? This is a subject in which Marx and I had long 
taken a special interest. A new contribution from Vico’s mother country 
and from a scholar conversant with our German philosophers calls for 
my fullest attention. I should like to take the liberty of sending you in 
return my little piece of Feuerbach.> 

I am also indebted to you for your kind endeavours on behalf of P. 
Martignetti, which have, I am glad to say, met with their first big success. 
I have been in correspondence with Mr Martignetti since 1884 and am 
morally convinced that he is innocent of the actions imputed to him and 
has fallen victim to a shabby intrigue. Perhaps, when you have occasion, 
you would convey to Mr Avv.° Lollini my most sincere thanks for his 
willing, able and successful defence of Martignetti. I trust that this 
magnanimous intervention on the part of you both will succeed in 
protecting him from undeserved vilification and ruin. 

You must forgive me for writing to you in German. Over the last few 
years, however, my Italian, such as it is, has, alas, grown exceedingly 
rusty and I dare not mangle the Italian language in front of a master of 
that beautiful tongue. 

Very respectfully yours, 
EE.