ABOUT ME

Based on my birthplace settled among the hills between Umbria and Tuscany, where the Tiber river starts its rush to Rome, I am a PURE GEOGRAPHER (basically an oximore), altough my current job is teaching my subject in high schools, which 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 "Vini veri" promoting organic wines; I was furthermore a part-time researcher at Rome university while I was managing an italian football team entirely composed by african players: It was the glorious "Afrotiberina Real de Banjul"; winning the local league together Is what that somehow I consider a "glorious" achievement!

PHILOSOPHY

As a geographer i live my life carrying on, day by day, searching with common sense the best way to reach multiple corners of the globe, probing every subject in every perspective, exploring human diversity and trying to get in any situational flow. 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's what make of me a "troubled enthusiast" and a restless person, anyway contemplative and eternally uncetrain at the same time. I keep a huge passion for cinema (my first degree), and for rithmyn as well, in its browser sense. 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 side. Lot of cultural frames around the world depicts that kind of attitude with the features of a divinity.... I really would love to have more.
Quite hard Instead to catch me at home during the months of July and August, when I'm usually abroad; wandering territory Upon territory on the six continents: I would love to receive the same hospitality I would like to offer, but seldom I choose to resort to this system to get a place to stay.

Interests

Places, peoples, landscapes, philosophies, music, poetry, archeology, visual and performing arts, architecture, societies, political activism and ecomonics. But mostly (maybe above all) Landscapes, human storytelling 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, Joanna Hogh, Kelly Reichardt, 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

My Summer journey are a constant thrill, with twisting change of schedule, and situationist happenings I let them happen. I could tell you about the night I spent into Teheran jail, but I rather prefer starting from a cold and dark night alone inside an abandoned medieval persian caravanserrai at 2400 mt. 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 here.

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, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy