It was in Turin that Nietzsche suffered his catastrophic breakdown, after years of exile, solitude and struggle against poverty and increasing ill health. By then his best books were already written, in the face of obstacles which would have reduced most men to either suicide or silence. Considering how much nonsense, has been written about him, and his philosophy he is still linked, in the minds of the ill informed, with the rise of Nazism - the approach is sympathetic and fair minded, seeing the man and his writings per se, not the largely hostile mythology which has grown up around them. The old Nietzsche contra Wagner argument is re examined and discussed, and without the easy option of turning the composer into the villain of the case.