«¿Por qué tendré que irme de Roma, donde pasé unos días de magia?»: Historia, memoria y estética en cuatro escritores de México en Italia a principios de 1920

This article will offer a panoramic view of the readings of the first gen-eration of Mexican writers who travelled and wrote in Italy between the 1920s and 1940s. Some of these writers were active since the foundation of the Ateneo de Méxi-co, better known as the Ateneo de la Juventud Mexicana –without being part of it–. It is also worth to deepen on one fundamental piece in its constitution: Alfonso Reyes. In second place, we will go on with the texts of Luis G. Urbina and Rafael Cabrera in their dialogue with Julio Torri, to finish with a review of the less known experience of Rubén M. Campos in Italy. These texts will be analysed following the testimonies of their generation companions, creating a dialogue between them, which –how-ever– it constantly emerged naturally thanks to the intellectual networks they had and the figure of Torri himself as an axis and a witness from Mexico of this cultural exchange.