Roberto Piumini is the author of books for all ages. He has also written poetry and plays on experiences, memories and traditions linked to the world of children, young people and adults. Museums great and small have benefitted from his fact sheets on paintings, sculptures and tapestries. His are a series of unusual rhyming guides and monographs on Italian cities and regions. He translates poems and plays by Browning, Shakespeare and Milton. He regularly holds lectures, concerts and shows inspired by his own writings with the collaboration of actors, singers and graphic designers.