Cesare Vergati won a year’s high school study grant to the USA. He graduated in Psychology and Philosophy in Rome, studied Spanish literature in Madrid and Barcelona, attended the Berlin faculty of philosophy for a year and studied and worked for some years in Paris, where he won a doctorate in philosophy and psychoanalysis. He studied Russian literature in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Since 1988 he has been in charge of cinema for the French Institute in Milan. With ExCogita he published Trilogy of the Echo: Surprising, novel in poetry; Soldier in Veils, novel in theatre – theatre adaptation performed in Milan and Saint Petersburg; and Boy on pendulum, novel in music. The three books have been translated into Russian. Again with ExCogita he published the first door of Triptych of Shadow: Faust or the Unconverted – theatre adaptation performed in Milan, the second door of Don Giovanni or the inconvenient – theatre adaptation performed in Milan, (translated into English, French and Russian ) – the third door of Falstaff, or the Unusual (translated into Russian) and the first canto of Triangle of Waiting, the Wet Man. Diòcreme in chains. The illustrations in the works are by Bimba Selvaggia Landmann.