Luigi Barzini travelled the world as a correspondent for the Corriere della Sera, inventing his own journalistic style. Enzo Magri revisits Barzini's writing, along with his professional and private lives. Letters from around the world to his wife, the writer Mantica Pesavento, reflect their love for each other along with Barzini's professional insecurities and fears about inadequate production and losing his job. Italian text.