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This collection of interviews conducted towards the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s explores the relationship between intellectuals and power in twentieth-century Florence. These biographies bring to light the frustrations, hopes and drama of lives suspended between obedience and refusal of an established order such as fascism or materialism. The responses to these problems show the moral dissimulation characteristic of Italian culture's attitude towards authority since the seventeenth century. Italian text.