When I was eighteen, I read "Crime and Punishment" and decided to study literature in Rome.

I travelled around Europe and Latin America: Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

After graduating at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, I started teaching Italian to foreigners. At first in my city and then in Naples, at the “Federico II” University.

I worked in Libya, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tripoli. In Russia, in Volgograd and Saint Petersburg, where I learned Russian and drank vodka.

In Minsk I taught Italian language and culture at the State Linguistic University and collaborated in the organization of cultural events of the Italian Embassy in Belarus.

And then I worked as Italian teacher in Uzbekistan at University of World Economy and Diplomacy and Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent.