Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Altogether he wrote 27 plays the most highly regarded written in the final period of his career from 1940 until his death. Ugo Betti (Camerino February 4 1892 – Rome June 9 1953) was an Italian judge better known as an author who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello. La Padrona his first play was first performed in 1927 and the play's success made him devote himself entirely to the theatre.