: About Me

I am Italian, from Rome, and I have been in the U.S. since 1999, where I first worked as a consultant. But after several years of successful 9-5 job, I decided to go back to an old and neglected love of mine: writing. Now I work as a freelance translator and writer, and I love to share my passion for the culture, the food and the traditions of my beautiful country, so you might find around recipes, stories and little bites of popular Italian culture with my name on it.

My formal education in Italy includes classic studies and humanities (Liceo Classico G. Lucilio di Roma), architecture (Universita` La Sapienza di Roma), and chef training (J&W University of Culinary Art of Miami).

My passion is ...

Writing, cooking and walking on the streets of Rome

I know too much about ...

Rome, Italy, the people, the places, colors and stories

My parents always told me ...

"Mangia, mangia!"

My childhood ambition ...

To build a big shelter for all the stray cats and dogs of Rome

My favorite memory ...

An early summer evening in Rome, swallows diving in the sunset light, the smell of my mother's jasmine plants

Why I write ...

Because with what I write I can branch into someone else's life and influence it a bit

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Piero Chiara/Old movies with Bogart&Bacall/Good old radio

My first job ...

Swimming class instructor in a summer camp on the Dolomites

My best moment ...

When I found myself again...

My inspiration ...

To be happy by making other people happy with what I write

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story

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My great, true, personal garden story When I was a child in Italy, many moons ago, my family had a small house in the countryside South-East of Rome, where my parents loved to go and hide for the week-end. The place was on one of the many gentle sloping hills of the area, and from the west windows of the house, on a clear day, I loved to scan the horizon to catch in the very distance the shape of the dome of Saint Peter Cathedral, while all around the people from the near village were busy tending their handkerchief size gardens, vineyards and olive groves. Our place also had enough space ...

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