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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Jan 11 min read

A Good Omen for 2026

The message from the Bacio chocolate I picked on New Year's Morning is a quote by the great writer, aviator and hero Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, one of my favourite authors. To me, the meaning of this quote is: do not adjust your life to what has no meaning to you, by sacrificing your dreams to a plain and insignificant existence; put your dreams at the centre of your life, instead, and make them (or at least most of them) true, because you live once and, at the end of the day

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A Good Omen for 2026

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