Italy is mine

... and it owes me a living

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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.

My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.

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17 hours ago2 min read

This is not a Country for Young People

Cartoni Morti (here is his YouTube channel), an Italian satirical cartoonist and YouTuber, has posted today a comic strip about the brain drain which is one of the most serious problems in Italy since three decades. My Country is the only one in the whole World which is glad and proud when Italians are successful... abroad. I partially agree to this comic strip, so I had to correct the part about the young people leaving Italy: most of them are not rich at all and (I know ver

veradapozzo8

Sep 16, 20251 min read

It's up to You, New York!

Too busy to write, still I have found the time for this drawing. Detail of my artwork. ... and my drawing in its whole. New York, New York...

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Italy is mine

Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

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This is not a Country for Young People

It's up to You, New York!

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