Vito Mancuso was professor at the University of Milan Vita-Salute San Raffaele and the University of Padua. With Garzanti he published Io e Dio. Una guida dei perplessi (2011, 12 editions), Il principio passione (2013, 6 editions), Io amo. Piccola filosofia dell’amore (2014, 5 editions), Questa vita (2015, 2 editions), Dio e il suo destino (2015, 2 editions) and Il coraggio di essere liberi (2016, 5 editions). He is the director of the series I Grandi Libri dello Spirito. Since 2009 he has been columnist for the daily newspaper "la Repubblica".