The poet Piero Bigongiari is a reference for the city of Florence, and one of the highest voice of the literacy panorama of the 20^th century. Born in Navacchio (Pisa) in 1914, he was a professor of modern and contemporary literature at the University of Florence.

His first collections of poetry, matured in the climate of Florentine hermeticism, are La figlia di babilonia, Rogo, Il corvo bianco. He has published numerous critical essays, among them La poesia come funzione simbolica del linguaggio.