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Poet, photographer, filmmaker, archivist,  Gerard Malanga, at the home of Ettore Sottsas & Fernanda Pivano, Allen's Italian translator and friend,  Milan, mid September, 1967. His film "In Search of the Miraculous" was the official U.S. entry at the 10th Gran Premio Bergamo film festival the week before, and he'd been staying in Ettore's studio around the corner from their flat.  Gerard and Allen had lived across the hall from one another a few years earlier on the top floor of an East 5th Street apartment in New York City during the early emergence of Andy Warhol's factory scene,  and the Velvet Underground were just forming, the world which Malanga was inextricably part of.    (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries, Allen Ginsberg Estate) 

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