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name: Cecilia * born: 23 August 1981, Napoli, Italy * living in: Napoli, Italy * Studies: diploma in Liceo Classico Umberto I, Naples; degree in Lettere Moderne (Humanities) at Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (go to my Research page) * Art Studies: three years (Drawing, Illustration 1 and Illustration 2) at the Scuola Italiana di Comix, via Atri 21, Napoli *Occupation: 2nd year of PhD in Comparative Literatures; trying to became a illustrator * Astrological sign: Virgo * Pet: Sissi (female 12 years old cat) * Righty or lefty? Lefty! And proud to be! * physical characteristics: myopic; hypothyroid. 

FAVORITES:
* Color: red, green; above all a mix of green and blue

* Painters: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Waterhouse, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Matisse; Italian '200 - '300 - '400; then Schiele, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec

* Illustrators: Gianni De Conno, Quentin Blake, Gianni De Luca, Dino Battaglia, Gennady Spirin

* Flower: jasmin, white rose

* sport: Tennis! My favourite players are Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Juan Carlos Ferrero, then Ivanisevic, Krajcek, Safin, Moya... Loads of

* Wine: Merlot

* Numbers: 5, 55, 66

* Disney character: Donald Duck, obviously

* Season: Summer!

 

TEH MUSIC I LISTEN:

opera: Orfeo e Euridice (Gluck), Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Flauto Magico (Mozart), Barbiere di Siviglia and Guglielmo Tell's 4th Act (Rossini), Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti), Norma (Bellini), Rigoletto, Vespri Siciliani, Otello (Verdi), Carmen (Berlioz), Mefistofele (Boito), Tosca, Turandot (Puccini), Andrea Chénier (Giordano), Die Gezeichneten (Schreker).

classical music: Beethoven, Tchaikoskij, Smetana, Rodrigo; pieces for trumpet

jazz: Ella & Louis, Billie Holiday, Laura Fygi, Sergio Cammariere

world and ethnic: Madredeus, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, The Charmin' Elf

pop/rock: Vacuum, Céline Dion, Magnetic Fields, Queen, Jewel, Bjork (not the last things), Cher, Emiliana Torrini, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Mamas & Papas, Beach Boys, Madonna, Britney (I admit), Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, The Verve and Richard Ashcroft, Chris Cornell, Beth Orton, Anastacia, Tatu, The Cardigans, Heather Nova, Alison Krauss, Rosanne Cash, Natasha Thomas, Shakira, Paulina Rubio, Delta Goodrem.

and something harder: Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Nickelback.

Italian: Lucio Battisti, 883, Biagio Antonacci, Mina, Nomadi, Paola & Chiara

soundtracks: Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Bride & Prejudice, Evita, Phanthom of the Opera, Saturday Night Fever 

 

MY FAVOURITE MOVIES

Quo Vadis?, Lord of the Rings (best of the three: TTT), The Princess Bride, Ladyhawke, Excalibur, Some Like It Hot, The Sound of Music, Forrest Gump, Dolls, Spirited Away, Disney's Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Peter Pan, Of Mices and Men, Moby Dick, Mary Reilly, From Hell, Sense & Sensibility, My Best Friend's Wedding, Brancaleone alle Crociate, The Last Samurai, Hero, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Interview with the Vampire, Meet Joe Black, Legend of the Fall, The Four Feathers, Far and Away, Girl with the Pearl Earring, L'isola di Arturo

 

BEST LOOKING TALENTED ACTORS

Gary Sinise, Elijah Wood, Tom Cruise, Leo Genn, Adrien Brody, Jason Isaacs, Laurence Olivier, Luigi Lo Cascio, Alan Rickman, James Mason, Cary Elwes, Colin Firth, George Clooney, Jeremy Northam, Tony Curtis, Errol Flynn, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, John Hurt, Rupert Everett, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom, Justin Kirk, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Wes Bentley, Tony Leung, Kaneshiro Takeshi, Rodrigo Santoro

and in theatre: Max Malatesta, Marco Foschi

 

MANGA

Muugen no Juunin/Blade of the Immortal (by Samura Hiroaki), Maya's Glass no Kamen (Miuchi Suzue), Kanon and the short stories by Saito Chiho, everything by Inoue Takehiko, Berusayu no Bara/Lady Oscar and Orpheus no Mado (Ikeda Riyoko), Neon Genesis Evangelion (Sadamoto Yoshiyuki), Nana and Paradise Kiss (Yazawa Ai), The Calling (Okano Reiko), Mademoiselle Anne (Yamato Waki), Berserk (Miura Kentaro), Claymore (Yagi Norihiro), Kainan Phrase (Shinjo Mayu), Hamlin no Violin Hiki (Watanabe Michiaki), Pendragon (Chōji Maboroshi), Ace o Nerae (Yamamoto Sumika), Kimi Wa Pet (Ogawa Yayoi), almost everything by Clamp (especially Clover, Card Captor Sakura and Rayearth), Tetsuwan Girl (Takahashi Tsutomu), graphic novels by Taniguchi Jirō

 

COMICS

Asterix, Peanuts, Craig Thompson (the mighty author of Blankets), Vanna Vinci

 

FAVOURITE BOOKS

classics: War and Peace, Anna Karenina (Tolstoj), Crime and Punishment (Dostoievskij), The Return of the Native and other novels by Thomas Hardy, The Portrait of a Lady (James), Wuthering Heights  (E. Brontë), Jane Eyre (C. Brontë), Japanese Literature (Genji Monogatari, Tanizaki, Mishima), Le Rouge et le Noir (Stendhal), Puškin, Quo Vadis? (Senkievitz), L'Isola di Arturo (Morante), Il barone rampante (Calvino), Little Women/Good Wives (Alcott), Gormenghast trilogy (Mervyn Peake) 

poetry: William Blake, Provencal Troubadours, E. Brontë, Lope de Vega, Torquato Tasso, Baudelaire

theatre: Shakespeare, Checov, Jarry, Wilde

contemporary: Harry Potter (JKR), Roald Dahl, The Chrestomanci Saga (Wynne Jones), His Dark Materials (Pullman), The Earthsea Saga (Le Guin)