I am an author of historical monographs and collections of legends of the Italian popular tradition. I have collaborated with Italian and European organizations and associations, universities, periodicals and local and national television programs. I live among history and cooking books in Salsomaggiore Terme with a dog, two ferocious cats, a wife and two children. I look for lost stories in the archives and in the dusty books, rummaging through there are many stories to tell, but so beautiful that they seem like fairy tales. Can I tell you one of the ones I found? Then sit back and listen: Once upon a time ...