This is a charmingly written autobiography of a 95 year old Milanese painter and architect, who Bobbio defined in the preface as perhaps an unprecedented case: one hundred years of history, narrated by the person who lived it, who during his lifetime has met Marinetti, Severini, Alvaro, Solmi, Picasso, Braque, De Pisis, De Chirico, Guttuso, Montale, Gadda, Vittorini, Bottoni and many others.