An existentialist philosopher Jack Ireland is invited to Genoa Italy to search for a packet of missing letters supposedly left in a grand palazzo by Nietzsche in the 19th Century. He ends up living in the palazzo as tutor to a cognitive challenged aristocratic boy. What could be the value of philosophy for this child? What is it touches all human souls? J. Hayes Hurley is novelist a philosopher and a philosophical novelist. He is the author of The Diary of the Attending Rays Those Brownsville Blues and Leaving Lisbon. The Genoa Dialogues is his 18th novel.