The diary, also self-critical, of the former editor of Corriere della Sera and Sole 24 Ore. A long-awaited book, over forty years of the history of our country and the world experienced from a special point of observation. Scene and backstage of power in Italy, from finance to politics and business, from media to the judiciary, with portraits of the protagonists, the memory of many colleagues, unpublished episodes, facts and misdeeds, meetings, secrets, battles always conducted head-on and always in the first person: for the first time Ferruccio de Bortoli, an absolute reference point in international journalism, tells and recounts himself. With many surprises.