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Davide
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Como, Italy
Italian
English
Portuguese
Romanian
Greek
Spanish
German
Practicing
French
Practicing
Dutch
Practicing
Norwegian
Practicing
Polish
Practicing
Russian
Practicing
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I'm a friendly guy from Northern Italy.
I work as a translator and a copy editor.
Some of my strong points are curiosity, kindness, respect, irony and playfulness, while some of my flaws are shyness, stubborness, a touch of melancholy and curiosity (!).
I'd really like to know people from all over the world.
Un saluto dall'Italia. Davide.
Don't hesitate to send me a message. If I visited your profile without contacting you, please don't think I didn't find it interesting; on the contrary, seize your keyboard and scribble a few notes for me! I like peeping into my virtual mailbox and I'll be glad to answer you.
Requests
Please don't add me to your friendship list if we have never talked. After exchanging some messages, I'll be pleased to welcome you as my new friend.
People learning Italian or practising the other languages I know are welcome, but I'm also looking forward to friendly messages from everywhere and of course I'll try to answer them all as soon as possible. Only long-lasting friendships.
Hobbies & Interests
foreign languages
reading (novels, poetry and essays)
literature
music
cinema
history
philosophy
religions
translation
linguistics
literary criticism
comparative literature
psychology
crosswords
playing the different versions of Sonic the Hedgehog
travel
sightseeing
long walks
Favorite Music
classical music (especially the 18th century with G.F. Händel, J.S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, J.P. Rameau) and 80's pop music.
Favorite Movies
Roma città aperta (1945)
Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Riso amaro (1949)
Bellissima (1951)
La strada (1954)
Accattone (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964)
Amarcord (1973)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
Ordinary People (1980)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
A Room with a View (1985)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Dreams (1990)
The Others (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
The Harry Potter film series (2001-2011)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Ponyo (2008)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Interstellar (2014)
Favorite TV Shows
Everwood Brothers & Sisters Gilmore Girls Merlin
Favorite Books
М.А. Булгаков, Мастер и Маргарита/M.A. Bulgakov, The
Master and Margarita
I. Calvino, I nostri antenati
M. de Cervantes, Don Quijote
J. Conrad, Lord Jim
Ch. Dickens, David Copperfield
Ch. Dickens, Great Expectations
Ch. Dickens, Oliver Twist
J. Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste et son maître
Ф.М. Достоевский, Братья Карамазовы/F.M. Dostoevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov
Ф.М. Достоевский, Преступление и наказание/F.M.
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
A. Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
U. Eco, Il nome della rosa
J. Fielding, Tom Jones
C.E. Gadda, La cognizione del dolore
Κ.Π. Καβάφης/K.P. Kavafis
H. Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund
V. Hugo, L'Homme qui rit
H. James, The Portrait of a Lady
J. Joyce, Dubliners
Ν. Καζαντζάκης, Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά/N.
Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Th. Mann, Buddenbrooks
Th. Mann, Tonio Kröger
E. Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio
L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
W. Shakespeare, As You Like It
W. Shakespeare, King Lear
W. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno
J. Swift, Gulliver's Travels
G. Ungaretti
M. Yourcenar, Comme l'eau qui coule
M. Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien
M. Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir
Favorite Quotes
'Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty'
David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste in Essays Moral, Political, Literary.
'The past is never dead. It’s not even past'
W. Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (I, 3).
'Non ci si libera di una cosa evitandola, ma soltanto attraversandola'
C. Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere (22-11-1945).