Franco Maria Ricci, publisher and collector, known for having published the magazine since the 1980s, died at the age of 82 FMR and for having created in Fontanello, in the province of Parma, the “Masone labyrinth“. Come he wrote the Corriere della Sera, FMR it was «a very popular newspaper, printed all over the world in four different editions, Italian, English, French, Spanish». Republic born spoke instead as “an icon of taste, symbol of the highest publishing, for the excellent typographic quality, the absolute devotion to the Bodoni font, the stupendous photographs on glossy black, the rich texts but at the service of the narrative, entrusted to noble authors, from Calvino to Testori, from Arbasino to his friend Jorge Luis Borges who lived in his house for long stays marked by creative discussions and intellectual harmony ».
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