Paolo Occhipinti

Paolo Occhipinti, Milanese, is editorial director at Rcs Periodici. When he was in university, he make his journalistic debut in Oggi. After directing Novella 2000 and Annabella, he went back to Oggi and stayed there as director for almost thirty years. He collected the best of his column of dialogues with Indro Montanelli in the book Caro Indro – Dear Indro (2002). Together with Serena Viviani he published il Dizionario lei-lui – The He-She Dictionary (2008), a “Bible” for the life of a couple. He has always cultivated the hobby of mycology and, in his youth, with the pseudonym of John Foster, was a successful singer. D’amore e di guerra takes its clues from a news story that really happened in Esino Lario, in the mountains of Lecco where the author is at home.