In its long history, La Scala has often been cited in the pages of writers and poets: from Carlo Porta, Milanese by birth, to Stendhal, Milanese by adoption, up to Carlo Emilio Gadda, Dino Buzzati and Eugenio Montale, a regular visitor to the theater. in the role of music critic. But La Scala also entered one of Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved masterpieces: “A Farewell to Arms”.