ABOUT ME

Usually based in my birthplace settled on the hills between Umbria and Tuscany, where the Tiber river starts its rush to Rome... PURE GEOGRAPHER (basically an oximore), my current job is teaching geography in high schools. That allows me to be abroad for one or a couple of months during boreal summer season. Previously I used to work as executor on an international exhibition called "Vino veri" promoting organic wines; I was furthermore a part-time researcher at Rome university and also a football trainer and manager of an italian local team fully composed by african players called "Afrotiberina Real de Banjul".

PHILOSOPHY

As a geographer i live my life carrying on, day by day, searching with common sense the best way to see over every corner of the globe, probing every subject, exploring han diversity and trying to penetrate their culture as their own personal way to be. Sounds and images, places, landscapes, flavours and smells: through senses i feel scroll my lifeblood. Nonetheless: thinking is my action; because when you're a geographer, scanning horizontally on the surface of the things or human beings and going into them, digging vertically on their depth are an unique movement.
That makes a "troubled enthusiast" and a restless person, anyway contemplative and eternally undecided at the same time; there's an huge passion for cinema (my first degree) on me, and for music in a broader perspective as well. And I'm furthermore focused on literature, social studies and science...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

During this last decade my home has been several times available for pilgrims going straight south to Saint Francis Holy places like Assisi. Whatsoever, that's not so frequent find out people moving around and asking for hosting during the cold season at my sode. I really would love to have more. Quite hard to find me at home during the months of July and August, when I'm abroad; there I desire to receive the same hospitality I would like to offer. Lot of cultural frames around the world depicts that kind of attitude with the features of a divinity...

Interests

Places, peoples, landscapes, philosophies, music, poetry, archeology, visual and performing arts, architecture, societies, politics and ecomonics. But mostly (maybe above all) Landscapes and cinema frames....

Furthermore: international football, volleyball, sports in general, chess-playing, wine and food. Nature is currently lifting up in this list.

• architecture
• world music
• archeology
• geography
• cinema
• cultures
• landscape
• anthropolgy

Music, Movies, and Books

Magnificent obsession for contemporary cinema It's what that drains a good slice of my timespan. I'll try to be updated on every Cannes edition. Retrieving back to my classic background, I'll just to put it on some of my favourites as they glimpse on my mind...
Movies:
2001: A space Oddissey (1969, S. Kubrick)
Aguirre, the wrath of God and Kaspar Hauser (Early '70ies, W. Herzog)
Andreij Roublev (1967, A. Tarkovskji)
La Dolce Vita (1960, F. Fellini)
Satantango (1994, B. Tarr)
Triangle of sadness (2022 R. Ostlünd)
then other filmmakers like Robert Bresson, Bruno Dumont, Frederick Wiseman, S. Paradzjanov, N. Moretti, Amir Naderi, A. Kechiche, Gus Van Sant, P.T. Anderson, etc.

MUSIC: Monteverdi, Stravinskji, Ravel, Debussy, Britten, Bartok, Sostakovic, Part, Beethoven, J.B. Bach. POP-Rock: Radiohead, Arcade fire, Sufjan Stevens, Notwist, Franco Battiato, Genesis, Andrew Bird. "WORLD MUSIC" AND JAZZ: Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen, Keith Jarrett. And many others...

BOOKS: Poetry, essays, philosophy and...
NOVELS: M. Proust, P. Roth, Thomas Bernhardt, M. Houellebecq, F.Dostoevski, M. Enard, M. Cartarescu.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This one could be meaningfully suitable: "I spent a cold and dark night alone inside an abandoned medieval persian caravanserrai at 2400 meters height in Armenia. That was just to summon the ghosts of silk road merchants of XIV Century A.d.....".

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a teacher on geography, and what keeps me alive is to share phenomenologies, tellings and perceptions. Relating all these together. Sharing knowledge is actually what I search for on this telematic space.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My knowledge about my home place and culture. And what I love the most: la jouissance stordita; il rilievo delle forme e l'intreccio dei tropi. Dialoghi e libri sulla civiltà materiale, sull'ameno, l'arcaico, l'altrove.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy