Dozens of leaflets displaying poetry were plastered on the walls all over the Italian town of Fiumicino to cover swastikas and other hate symbol graffiti, the Italian press agency Ansa reported on Tuesday. Fiumicino belongs to the Metropolitan City of Rome. The Italian capital's main airport is located there. Among the graffiti concealed with poetry, there were some symbols of Forza Nuova, a neo-fascist movement and political party. #Fiumicino si è abbellita di poesie oggi...Shakespeare,Leopardi, Ungaretti hanno coperto il marciume di bellezza pic.twitter.com/YMa7wQB57d — maria pia trento (@mariapiatrento) May 28, 2019 The leaflets contained verses by William Shakespeare and by Italian poets Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) and Sandro Penna (1906-1977). They were posted overnight between Monday and Tuesday. Nobody knows who is behind the initiative. However, many citizens expressed their appreciation on social media, in Fiumicino and all over Italy. Il poeta ignoto che copre le svastiche sui muri con sonetti #Fiumicino. Sonetti di illustri poeti per coprire le svastiche apparse nei giorni scorsi su muri, alberi e pali. Contro i neofascisti di #ForzaNuova poesie di Leopardi, Shakespeare, Penna e Ungaretti. pic.twitter.com/n5dJF98JTn — Il Paese Sera (@IlPaeseSera) May 28, 2019
