Journalist and writer, master of Italian cultural journalism, considered “the lord of the Third Page”. He worked for Corriere della Sera for almost 50 years, becoming director of Domenica del Corriere in the 60s. Among his interviews for Corriere della Sera, those with Georges Simenon, Biagio Marin, Jorge Luis Borges, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, Andrea Zanzotto, Alda Merini, Eugenio Montale, Leonardo Sciascia were historic. He received the Bagutta Prize and the Estense Prize with Il Calcola dei Dadi in 1984.