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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22 hours ago3 min read

Saint Rosalia from Palermo - The Thornless Rose for the Boy with the Thorn in his Side

Today my beloved Palermo celebrates, for the second time every year, its principal Patron Saint: Rosalia Sinibaldi, the beautiful, pious and mysterious hermite who left her rich family, refused to marry and embraced Nature and Contemplation instead. From my family home, which is in a working-class periphery by the sea, I can admire the Promontory of Monte Pellegrino: as I child, I dreamt of living there like Saint Rosalia, enjoying the company of animals and trees. I drew a w

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Jul 151 min read

"Santuzza" Rosalia, the Happy Hermit

According to her legendary hagiography (to believe in her existence is an 1ct of Faith in itself) Rosalia Sinibaldi refused richness and a marriage with a noble, kind and attractive young man and embraced instead a life of meditation and poverty, surrounded by Mother Nature and her Loving Creatures. Being the youngest daughter of an introvert Father and a very shy Mother, and having a strong feeling towards Nature and Animals, I was deeply fascinated by the story of the "Sant

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Italy is mine

Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

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Saint Rosalia from Palermo - The Thornless Rose for the Boy with the Thorn in his Side

"Santuzza" Rosalia, the Happy Hermit

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