First World War
In 1914 he is sent to Maribor as a soldier for the 47th Infantry Regiment. He deserts to Italia, is already infected with tuberculosis, but fights as a soldier in the Italian army against the Austrian troops. He graduates in philosophy under Bernardino Varisco, the fascistic philosopher Giovanni Gentile whose idealistic doctrine had already exerted a profound influence on him, was the chairman of the committee. Varisco has offered to his pupil a place at the University. But Marin was eager to run to the front. Arriving in Stra nel Veneto he suffers from a relapse. When an Italian captain treated him boorishly, he protests with the words "Wir Österreicher sind an einen anderen Stil gewöhnt" "Captain, you are a villain; we Austrians are accustomed to different manners"
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