“Per me si va ne la città dolente / per me si va ne l’etterno dolore / per me si va tra la perduta gente/ (…) Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.” Dante Alighieri, Canto III Inferno This is the most arrogant and annoying article you will ever read on my…

A month in my life. As my four readers know, (as Alessandro Manzoni wrote, but I am more humble and say four and not twenty-five) as a volunteer I transport organs from the hospitals of living, voluntary donors to the patients, often on the other side of the world. You can read my article on…

A month in my life. As my four readers know, (as Alessandro Manzoni wrote, but I am more humble and say four and not twenty-five) as a volunteer I transport organs from the hospitals of living, voluntary donors to the patients, often on the other side of the world. You can read my article on…

A month in my life. As my four readers know, (as Alessandro Manzoni wrote, but I am more humble and say four and not twenty-five) as a volunteer I transport organs from the hospitals of living, voluntary donors to the patients, often on the other side of the world. You can read my article on…

Fortune Cookie taxi, Bologna, Italy: It is three o’clock in the morning. I leave my house. I recognise my favourite taxi driver, a taxi driver who by choice only works at night. “Because the people of the night, the addicts, the travellers, the prostitutes, the drunks, the fighting couples, are…

Luis I once met an extraordinary man called Luis, who made me promise I’d write a book about all the other extraordinary men I’ve also met (platonically), and title it “Men I didn’t want to sleep with”. This is the end, and also the beginning. This is the story of…

Frank I once met an extraordinary man called Luis, who made me promise I’d write a book about all the other incredible men I’ve also met (platonically), and title it “Men I didn’t want to sleep with”. You can read Luis’ story here. This is the story of Frank. The…

Alvaro I once met an extraordinary man called Luis, who made me promise I’d write a book about all the other incredible men I’ve also met (platonically), and title it “Men I didn’t want to sleep with”. You can read Luis’ story here. This is the story of Alvaro, the…

Oliver I once met an extraordinary man called Luis, who made me promise I’d write a book about all the other incredible men I’ve also met (platonically), and title it “Men I didn’t want to sleep with”. You can read Luis’ story here. This is the story of Oliver. For…