In the spring of 1911, while Saba was away in Florence meeting people associated with the influential magazine "La Voce", and initiating a collaboration with Mario Novaro, Lina had an affair with a painter. The couple separated, but were together again by May 1912 when the family moved to Bologna, where public readings of his poetry were poorly received and Saba was beset by depressed lows and creative highs. Destitute, in 1914 the family moved to Milan, where Saba found work first as a secretary, then as a nightclub manager. In early 1915 he began writing for Benito Mussolini's "Il Popolo d'Italia" newspaper, but in June was drafted into the army, where he saw no active service and was hospitalised due to depression. (pp. 544–5)