Mario Calabresi wrote the entry “Curiosity” for the Zingarelli dictionary because he is convinced that curiosity is the engine of the world and the best companion of life. A journalist and writer, he began his career as a parliamentary reporter at Ansa, was a correspondent in the United States and edited “La Stampa” and “La Repubblica.” He has written nine books: the first is Pushing the Night Further, the last The Time in the Woods. He is dedicated to experimenting with new forms of journalism and fiction, convinced that technologies do not kill information but rather multiply its possibilities for dissemination. He has a weekly newsletter called Other/Stories. He runs the podcast company Chora Media, of which he is one of the founders.

Piero Colaprico, mystery writer, journalist, artistic director of Teatro Gerolamo. He was a special correspondent and editor-in-chief of “La Repubblica,” has covered numerous stories on crime and corruption (he is the “inventor” of the term Tangentopoli) and written essays and fiction. Among the first, Manager calibro 9-twenty years of underworld in Milan, which became a film (Lo Spietato) and Le cene eleganti. Novels include Requiem for a Killer, Trilogy of the City of M. and the collection The Ways of the Katana. He created a series of detective stories featuring Pietro Binda, marshal in charge of the Carabinieri's Via Moscova homicide section.