Alessandro Baricco is one of the most versatile contemporary writers in Italy. Known for his bestselling novels Castelli di rabbia (Premio Selezione Campiello and Prix Médicis Étranger in 1991), Oceano Mare (Premio Viareggio in 1993) and Seta (1996, translated into 16 languages), Baricco has also had a prolific career as a television host of cultural programs, as a playwright and essayist. His fourth essay The Barbarians (2006) addressed the relationship between writing and the digital cultural revolution. In his latest book The Game (2018), Baricco returned to this theme by broadening his reflection to the impact of the digital revolution on humanistic thought and culture in general. The book is an intellectual preface to the principles Baricco has applied to the Academy program of the Holden School from he founded in 1994 to Turin.