Paolo Volponi (6 February 1924, in Urbino – 23 August 1994, in Ancona) was an Italian writer, poet and politician. He studied Law at Urbino University, where he graduated in 1947. His career as a writer was profoundly influenced by his meeting with the enlightened social thinker and industrialist Adriano Olivetti in 1950, for whom he worked as an assistant and then as director of social services at the Olivetti factory at Ivrea.[1] He moved to Turin in 1972 to join Fiat and was appointed president of the Fondazione Agnelli in 1975 but was obliged to resign because of his open support for the Italian Communist Party.[2] He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1983.