From Anpi di Vicchio to eight years in professional cycling, passing through the happy marriage with Marisa Zocchi, champion of Mike Bongiorno's "Leave or Raddoppia", with the great Gino Bartali as wedding witness and with greetings from Pope Pacelli. All told by the passionate hand of the author Bruno Confortini. Vintage photos, testimonies, race reports and arrival orders from the entire career of this popular Tuscan rider who lived Italian cycling between the 1950s and 1960s, at the moment of its heyday, sharing the roads with the great of that time in an Italy that was beginning to live again after the tragedies of the Second World War.