Summary for Hemingway's "The Revolutionist."

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Summary:
In 1919, he traveled the Italian railroads, from Budapest.  From the party's headquarters, he carried an oilcloth with writing that said he was a comrade who had, "suffered very much under the Whites" and requested that "comrades to aid him in any way."  He was shy, quite young, and had no money.  He used the oilcloth in place of a train ticket.  They fed him in railway houses, behind counters.

He said Italy was a beautiful country.  He saw many pictures and purchased reproductions of Giotto, Masaccio, and Piero della Francesca, but not Mantegna.  He didn't like that artist.

He went to Bologna, and I took him with me to Romagna where I had a man to see.  It was a good trip.  I told him the movement was going very badly in Italy.

"But it will go better," he believed Italy will be the starting point of everything.

He said goodbye before taking the train to Milano, then to Aosta in Switzerland, where he'd walk over a pass.  I wrote down comrade addresses and places to eat while in Milano.  He didn't want to hear of the Mangtegnas in Milano, he didn't like Mantegna.  He looked forward to walking over the pass in Switzerland.  Last I heard, he was in a Swiss jail.

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Synopsis:
Hemingway's Revolutionist is about a shy young man traveling the Italian railway with no money.  All he has is an oilcloth which, with its writing of his mistreatment by the Whites, allows him food and passage from comrades of the movement.  When he gets to Italy, he finds it to be a beautiful country, and even purchases art -- reproductions of works by Giotta, Masaccio, and Piero della Francesca.  He meets a man in Bologna and they travel together to Romagna, it's an enjoyable trip and they discuss the progression of the movement in Italy.  The young man is optimistic that things will get better for the movement.  He then travels to Milan before going to Switzerland where he wished to walk across a pass at Aosta.  Last we hear, the young man is in a Swiss jail.

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Questions:
How is this young man able to purchase reproductions when Hemingway states he has no money?    What does it say that someone with no (or at the least very little) money spends it on art, instead of food, traveling, or his great cause/movement?