He met in Milan Vittorio Sereni, Antonio Porta, Giovanni Testori, Giorgio Strehler and began working for periodical and newspapers, at first in the editorial staff of Aut aut, a magazine edited by Enzo Paci, then writing for Piergiorgio Bellocchio's Quaderni Piacentini and Roberto Longhi's Paragone and finally for Corriere della Sera for which worked several years.