He came to Rome twice. He didn’t liked it in 1921 and liked it even less in 1924. On the second visit something so bad happened that he just called it “a thing that happened to me in rome”
In 1929 he wrote: “I’ve lain awake whole nights practicing murders. After I — after a thing that happened to me in Rome I used to imagine whole auditoriums filled with the flower of Italy, and me with a machine gun concealed on the stage