I took a Fine Arts Degree (in Classical Art Literature and Philosophy) at the University of Perugia; I got Microsoft and Macromedia Certifications; I just passed the final exam in a II Master by distance with Unimarconi (www.unimarconi.it); I love improving my English (I attended the Wall Street Institute, and, as a hobby, since last year I've been going sometimes to "Umbra Institute", which cooperates with the University and Project Erasmus)... and I work as a teacher in a High School and as a tutor in Athenaeum, helping students to prepare exams at University (www.athenaeumonline.it and www.istitutoleonardi.it ) .................
So I'm mad of:
Books (Ancient Classical Literature, Latin and Greek; Italian and English Literature); Art - design- drawing; Computer Graphics; but also Music; Volleyball; Swimming (I'm a kind of fish); travelling (I visited Greece, Rodhe, Munchen in Germany, Montecarlo, London, the South of France-Provence; in Italy I love Florence, Rome, Venice, Dolomites, Abetone, all my Umbria...); walking among natural landscapes, staring at beautiful sunsets and making photos...
I'd like to meet:
...brilliant, sharpen, intelligent, curious, creative, talented, ready minded people: in a word people who, like myself, enjoy using their brains ... deeply reflecting about themselves and how to be "Artists of life"...
Music:
Music feeds our Souls: I couldn't live without listening my music, it's a kind of drug; I like songs, not singers...:
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Dreams (The Cranberries); The sound of silence (Paul Simon&Art Garfunkel); It must have been Love / Listen to your heart / Wish I could fly (Roxette); Everything I Do I Do It For You / Heaven (Bryan Adams); Counting Down The Days (Natalie Imbruglia); Goodbye my lover/ You're Beautiful (James Blunt); These are the times to remember (Billy Joel); Every Breath You Take (Sting&Police); True Blue / Sorry (Madonna); Bad Day (Daniel Powter); The Power of Love / My heart will go on (Celin Dion); Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits); Gazebo (I like Chopin); Annie’s Song / The Wandering Soul (John Denver); EveryTime we touch / Miracle(Cascada); Unfaithfull (Rihanna); Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Poison); All about loving you / It's my life (Bon Jovi); Precious/Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode); Desert Rose (Sting); A song to say GoodBye (Placebo); Time Is Running Out / Sing for Absolution /Starlight (Muse); Because Of You (Kelly Clarkson); My Love (Westlife); Wonderful life(Black); The shape of my heart /Tell me why / Incomplete (Backstreet Boys); In your eyes (Kylie Minogue); On An Island (David Gilmour); It's A Sin (Pet Shop Boys); I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin); I Remember (Damien Rice); Viva Forever (Spice Girls); Don't speak (No Doubt); Somewhere over the rainbow (); Losing my religion (Rem); In The Shadows / The first day of my life (The Rasmus); L’Ultimo bacio / L'ECCEZIONE (Carmen Consoli); Una piccola Poesia / Gli stacoli del cuore (Elisa); La Stagione del tuo amore (De André); L'amore ai tempi del caos (Modena City Ramblers); Sei nell' anima/ Meravigliosa Creatura (Gianna Nannini); Phil Collins, A groovy kind of love
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Movies:
I grew up watching those Movies,... understanding, dreaming, crying, laughing...:
BraveHeart; Titanic; Meet Joe Black (Vi presento Joe Black); The Crown (Il Corvo); Forrest Gump; Ghost; The Gladiator; Troy (for Honour, Love and Destiny); Choise of Love (with Julia Roberts); Casablanca; Life is Beautiful (La Vita e' Bella, with Roberto Benigni); Catch the hour (L'Attimo fuggente); Message in a bottle (Le parole che non ti ho detto, with Kevin Kostner); Autumn in New York; Sweet November; Il Miglio verde; Million Dollar Baby; Storia di una Capinera; Tre Metri sopra il Cielo; Hitch; Sliding Doors; My best-friend's Wedding (Il Matrimonio del mio migliore amico, with Julia Roberts); Se scappi ti sposo; Quattro matrimoni e un funerale; Notting Hill; Se mi lasci ti cancello; Forever Young (Amore per sempre, with Mel Gibson); Pomodori Verdi fritti alla fermata del treno; Come Te Nessuno Mai; Al di la'dei sogni; Il Meraviglioso Mondo di Amilie; You've got Mail (C'e'posta per te, with Tom Hangs); Va dove ti porta il cuore; Shrek; Ice Age 1 and 2; Serendipity; Lady Hawk; Romeo & Juliet; Edward Scissorhands; Tristano e Isotta; Il Signore degli Anelli; La Maledizione della Prima Luna; A Beautiful Mind; Il Sesto senso; Il Padrino; Shining; Bram Stoker's Dracula (Love never dies); Original Sin; Sin City; Seven; Proposta Indecente; Pulp Fiction; Matrix...; and...Match Point by Woody Allen (you must watch it!)
Television:
I hate Television: why should we pay it? so stupid, so empty... anyway I used to watch:
X-Files; Friends; Desperate Housewives ... now just "Le Jene" and "Striscia la Notizia"
Books:
Too many books to be able to enumerate them: maybe I'd like to get with me in my grave those ones, as I can read something of myself inside of them:
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River's Anthology (what shall I write in my epitaphium? what have I learnt in my life?);
Homer, "Iliad" (the choise of love; love and war-death; cheating) and "Odissey" (travels, adventure, knowledge);
Pitagora (all is Number)
Parmenidas (about "to be")
Plato, "The Symposium" and ... all the Sokratic Dialogues (important questions: who am I?...; why?...; what is it...? what is life? what is death...? what is Soul?...; "Il mito della caverna" da Plato, Res publica, VII);
Epicureism and Stoicism;
Seneca, Letters to Lucilium (wiseness is...);
Catullo, Poems (odi et amo, quare id faciam/ fortasse requiris, nescio sed fieri, /sentio et excrucior);
Horace, Odes (carpe diem); Hovid, The Metamorphoses (life is evolution and people is always changing);
S.Agostino, Confessions (in interiore homine stat veritas);
Petrarch, Il Canzoniere
("conosco il bene e al mal m'appiglio");
Berkley
Kant, Prolegomena
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Giacomo Leopardi, "Operette Morali" and "Zibaldone"
(..."arido vero e solido nulla");
U. Foscolo, Jacopo Ortis' Last Letters;
Schopenhauer, Aut-Aut (life is made of choices);
Jung
T. Dostojevskji, I fratelli Karamazov; Delitto e castigo;
N. Sparks, "The words I haven't said to you" (Le parole che non ti ho detto);
B.Weiss, Several Lives, only one Love;
P.Coelho, "The Alchimist" and "The Zahir";
A. Bona, Love after Life; Jeanny Awery, Past Lives, Present Loves (Does Reincarnation exist? what's the karma? each fault has its pain; you receive exactly what you give....)
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (!!... I read it in English!)
Heroes:
Maybe Me(?).. ^_* I'm joking...!
