«I am going to count as a witness the passionate life of Amedeo Modigliani, an anguished artist who fought misfortune with all his innate nobility; the passionate life of Modigliani, whose destiny was fulfilled in France and whispered on his miserable deathbed: "Cara Italia!" ». A genius artist, Amedeo Modigliani arrived in Paris from the distant and luminous Tuscan city of Livorno and lived intensely «les Années folles» of Montparnasse, the new center of artistic bohemia. Deceased with thirty-five years at the beginning of the 1920s, he spent his life surrendering himself with the same frenzy to artistic creation and love, as if he trusted to defy death by making every moment worth twice as much. The poet and art critic André Salmon, friend and companion of Modigliani, remembers the painter in this book, which, as if it were a novel, paints a magnificent fresco of the extravagant and tumultuous life in Paris at the beginning of the century xx.