Gianfranco Benvuti was born in Fiesole on the 29^th of December 1925 from a petit-bourgeois family and lived mainly in Compiobbi, a hamlet of that municipality located on the Arno River, a few kilometres upstream from Florence. He studied to be a surveyor and was interested in history, literature and philosophy.In September 1943 he entered, very young, in a Garibaldi partisan formation and became detachment commander. For his partisan activity, where he will also serve as political commissioner, he will be awarded in 1970 with the bronze medal at the military value. After war, he has found employment at the municipal tax collector's office in Florence, Benvenuti began an intense cultural and political activity, frequenting Florentine painters, writers and intellectuals, and promoting initiatives and meetings between lay Catholics and Marxists on the subject of peace.

In 1972, Nuovedizioni Enrico Vallecchi published his debut novel, L’aquisto. Two years later, the same editor publishes with success Ghibellina 24, memorial on the Florentine liberation. In the following years, his writings will appear in various books, such as the anthology L'Italia partigiana, edited by Giorgio Luti and Sergio Romagnoli for Longanesi. Only in 1994 would his third publication see the light of day, an intimate autobiographical novel published by Il Vantaggio under the title Il bambino della domenica. Struck down by a stroke, Gianfranco Benvenuti died in Rome on 26 September 1994.