From the age of five , Anchise felt strongly compelled to draw . At that time he was living with all his family in Crespina ( Pisa ). The Tuscan countryside inspired the child-artist to draw, on the walls of his farmhouse, what he saw and loved: relatives, trees, animals, dreams… He incessantly Drew. As if “signs” were a second language for him and a really natural way to express sensations, fantasies, feelings. The book of graphics shows only a part of a greater mass of the author's sketches and drawings taken from his long artistic activity. Many of these drawings fell into the hands of friends or spectators who just happened to be around at the moment they were being carried out… We have tried to establish some order to those published: by time, technique, subject; always with the author's help and agreement . For the reason of space, we have been able to report only some drawings here: ranging from earlier, during the author's youth, to later, carried out when the artist's sight began to fail, until the author was constrained, as he says, “to retreat into the darkness”. It means the author has to use a very contrasted drawing technique now, (that is, he works with very high and hard contrasts of light and shadow) that, however, brings him to construct artworks of unique synthesis and greater emotion.