In this talk I review the present status of inflationary cosmology and its
emergence as the basic paradigm behind the Standard Cosmological Model, with
parameters determined today at better than 10% level from CMB and LSS
observations.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, uses frascatiphys_R.sty (included). Plenary talk, to
appear in the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Frontier
Science, October 6-11, 2002, Frascati (Italy
