The book “Presto con fuoco” by the modern Italian writer Roberto Cotroneo (born in 1961) was published in 1995 and was rightfully recognized in Italy as the bestseller of the year. Behind the entertaining plot with almost detective situations, behind the interesting and expressive characteristics of the characters, including Fryderyk Chopin, George Sand, Eugene Delacroix, Arthur Rubinstein, Glen Gould, there arises the theme of the artist’s difficult relationship with the world and the great loneliness of the genius.