Paolo Gentile Lanfranchi, who died at the age of one hundred in January 1983, was certainly the most remarkable and bizarre character of the entire Lanfranchi dynasty. He could certainly have said that he possessed nine lives, like a cat. Not only because he reached a century in age with clarity of sight and mind but because during his lifetime he managed to fit in a bit of everything. Beginning in 1915 when he went to war as a volunteer driver (together with the futurist Boccioni), and right up to 1982, he continued to talk about art with Beppe Novello, the unbeatable “gentleman of good family”.