Nanda Vigo’s autobiography, edited by Carmelo Strano, ed. Mimesis – Le parole dell’Arte, 2019
“In the taverns we most hang out at, like the Pino Pomè or the bowls club Maria alla Magolfa, or the Pino alla Parete, there were two very nice guys going around with guitars and Lombard songs. They were Cochi and Renato. At the Jamaica, you would find Mariangela Melato, or Gian Maria Volonté, who were studying at the ‘Piccolo’. We would often go to a very hospitable house of a man named Franco, who later turned out to be Franco Maria Ricci. In 1973, for the atrium of the Triennale, I was curating a total environment of emptiness, outside the usual monumentalism. I did artist performances there, and one was by Franco Battiato, who also had no money like everyone else. He was sleeping at Marco Mondadori’s house.”