He  graduated in philosophy literature art and theology. In the late nineteen fifties he was lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Urbino University. Some of his paintings and collages of concrete poetry can be seen at the museums  of Munster Amsterdam Jerusalem Saragossa Milan Urbino Paris and Miami Hanover Zagreb Rome. Sucked in by the vortex  of the game of poetry he has left his imprint through many decades on several paths of literary and artistic experiment to start with the most  restless and fertile years of the New Vanguard. In 1966 and 1967 he organized together with Arrigo Lora Totino and Adriano Spatola the first great exhibitions of  concrete poetry in Italy at Castelfranco Veneto Trieste and Modena. He contributed  to the reinstating and  the putting back into the paths of culture of Italian Futurists. With the support of Mattioli humanist  banker and publisher  he was able to obtain from his heirs the permission to make use of Marinetti’s original sound material  deposited with the State Archives in Rome. After his death a lot of space in the Veronese magazine “Anterem” was devoted  to Franco Verdi by Davide Agnani - poet and art critic from Forlì -  and by Domenico Cara - poet and essayist from Milan - and by others. The Roman magazine ”Fermenti”  has dedicated to Verdi  thirty-six pages of its  235^th issue.  Alberto Toniolo - a poet from Verona - has written about him: “With Franco we have been through ( late fifties and early sixties) some  wonderful years with the creation of impossible committees against the atom and literary and vanguard magazines and activities ( at the Caffè Dante in Verona or in Bologna with Adriano  Spatola) which we figured as an enlightening   of poetry as  conscience shaping tool. Then the years changed and so did we. We kept in touch  from afar always in a friendly way until we finally lost touch as only the history of poets can allow.”