Livio Garzanti. A difficult and moody man, obsessed with death, loved and feared. He was also a brilliant and highly cultured publisher, capable of reconciling the refined and scandalous authors he discovered and launched — Pasolini, Parise, Gadda — with literary entertainment and cultural dissemination of the highest quality, which he saw as his life's mission. Toni Servillo recounts the two worlds, the publisher’s and the private, which constantly intertwine in the choices and ideas of an intellectual who hated rhetoric and cultural snobbery, always preferring surprise, provocation, and the truth, even if disturbing.