Professional ProfileWriter and translator. Stories and articles in various English- and Italian-language publications, among which Nuovi Argomenti, Magic Realism, Pastrengo and Antaeus. Translations from Italian and French published in Harper's Magazine, Grand Street, City Lights Review and numerous other periodicals. Among the authors translated: Alberto Moravia (essays and stories); Umberto Eco (essays); Giorgio Manganelli (a book, Centuria); Ennio Flaiano (a book, Via Veneto Papers); and also many contemporary writers (among which, Giovanni Pascutto, Edoardo Albinati, Sandro Veronesi, Marc Cholodenko). Translator of screenplays and treatments for Dino De Laurentiis, Filmauro, Tau II and other movie producers. Co-author of film treatments and scripts with Giovanni Veronesi, Sandro Veronesi, Filippo Bologna and Ugo Chiti. Translator of catalogues of art, music and photographs (among which, The Thirty Assassins, stories of the Palio of Siena, with photos by Marco Delogu). Translator as well of a score by Luigi Nono and of the libretto for Salvatore Sciarrino's opera Da gelo a gelo (staged by the Opera national de Paris).Currently writing the final novel of a trilogy entitled Last Rites, set in Carolingian Rome (846-849 A.D.).