The letters are first and foremost a testimony to their friendship and complicities bonds that had grown since the mid-1950s when they first met amid an atmosphere of huge creative ferment in Brazil Their encounter turned out to be transcendental in the life and career of both in a country that was moreover preparing for the surge of the so-called second Modernidade the artistic development which according to Ivo Mesquita began in the 1950s and l...