In 2018 his ekphrastic poetry project ‘Ruins’ was awarded the Premio Montale [9][10] with a ceremony at the National Roman Museum in Palazzo Altemps.

In February 2020 he returned to the British Museum for a reading inspired by the Trojan heroes on the occasion of the “Troy Myth and Reality” exhibition.

[13] In 2020 the Parco Archeologico Colosseo commissioned him to write a series of pieces evoking the statues once present in the Roman Forum, the Colosseum and the Domus Aurea.

His poems were read by Alessandro Haber, Michele Placido, Robert Davi, Stephen Fry, James Cosmo, Marton Csokas, Abel Ferrara and Franco Nero.

His poems have been performed by actors like Joe Mantegna,[17] Michael Imperioli, Burt Young,[18] Alessandro Haber, Robert Davi,[19] Vincent Piazza, Marton Csokas[20][21] and Franco Nero.

After having returned to the stage with the video ‘Let me be Frank’, which attracted millions of views, on 2 August Spacey read four of Tinti's poems inspired by the Boxer at Rest in front of a large crowd that gathered at the National Roman Museum in Palazzo Massimo, where the statue is located.