I'm from Rome, Italy, but presently live in Turin. I am a computer/control engineer, and I have written several horror-fantastic short stories... still searching for somebody to publish them. Presently I am working at Verification & Validation of large railway station system softwares.
I am interested in many (maybe too many?) fields. These include:
- History (favourite characters: Frederick II of Sicily, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Ladislaus of Naples)
- Art (favourite painter: Giorgio De Chirico)
- Astronomy (favourite planet: Neptune; favourite star: Zeta Reticuli)
- Cinema (favourites: Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, Cate Blanchett, Gian Maria Volonté, Marcello Mastroianni)
- Comics (favourite artists: Kevin Maguire, Adam Hughes, John Bolton, Juan Giménez, Jordi Bernet - see his women!!!, Vicente Segrelles, Gary Frank, Magnus; favourite writers: Alan Moore, Max Bunker)
- Music (favourites: progressive rock, David Bowie and Italian singer-songwriters like Francesco Guccini, Angelo Branduardi, Franco Battiato, Fabrizio De Andrè, Francesco De Gregori, Roberto Vecchioni)
- Science fiction and, in general, fantastic literature (favourites: Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Josè Saramago, JG Ballard) but also literature in general when having a special powerful flavour (such as some of Lev Tolstoy and Fedor M. Dostoyevsky's novels).
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Articles I have created, expanded, or largely wikified