Pier Paolo Benucci, born in Florence in 1946, graduated in philosophy. He was a professor of literary subjects at the superior institute Russel Newton of Scandicci (Florence) and has held courses promoted by the Ministry of Education on the use of informatics within the teaching of Italian language. He also has teached Contemporary history and history of food at the Libera University of Sandicci.

He has edited school texts including I promessi sposi: materiali di studio (Armando Editore, 1997). One of his essays appears in the volume edited by Zeffiro Ciuffoletti Tradizione orale e mezzadria nella Val d'Elsa inferiore (Vallecchi, 1979). In 2020, Mauro Pagliai published the volume La grande peste del 1660 a Firenze. In 2021 another of his popular texts, Il Mugnone e i torrenti scoperti o tombati di Firenze (The Mugnone and the discovered or tombed torrents of Florence) was published by Sarnus. He collaborated with singer-songwriter Dodi Moscati on two LPs of Tuscan popular music.