A sociologist, a graduate from Trento University, and a member of the Acli National Research Office with G.A. for having been director of research in the first major empirical survey on young people and the condition of young people in Italy, Pierpaolo Benedetti is editorial director of Coines. A member of the Studies Office of the Associazione Sindacale Aziende Petrolifere (Trade Union Association of Oil Companies), he was a manager in the Eni group for over twenty years, working in studies and information, and then head of creative services. Director of Communication for the restoration of St. Peter's in the Vatican for the Great Jubilee of 2000, he has long dedicated himself to poetry, convinced that it is 'the continuation of politics, by other means'.