Cunto - Twitter Samuele

That was @samuele_cunto.

Samuele (the son) had been trying to get his father to go viral for years. The father never cared. twitter samuele cunto

“Samuele Cunto never wanted to be famous. He just wanted to be remembered by one person. And he was. And now, by a few hundred more.” That was @samuele_cunto

One night, scrolling late, he saw a tweet: “My dad passed away today. He used to say that Twitter was just ‘a billion people shouting into the wind.’ I hope the wind carries this one.” “Samuele Cunto never wanted to be famous

Samuele lived in a small apartment in Turin, Italy, where the walls were lined with philosophy books and old maps. By day, he worked as a rare book restorer. By night, he did something unusual: he wrote threads that fixed other people’s threads.

Samuele (the restorer) didn’t reply. He turned off his phone, made tea, and went back to restoring a 1723 edition of Dante that smelled of rain and centuries.