Ok, ok… do you want to know what I really do with my life? Hehehe… First of all, I love to travel, and I plan to visit the whole World by the end of my life. Past memorable trips include the Galapagos Islands, Iceland, Brasil, Israel, Alaska, South-Africa... (by the way, who needs travel agents anymore?). Luckily, my wife Rebecca shares this passion for travel... (which implied some complicated wedding organization...). I also like to play on-line chess and to watch movies (especially Kubrick!). Classical music and Italian soccer fill up what remains of my day. This is a consequence of living in Italy (Pisa and Milano, where I was born in 1970). I moved to the US in 1994 and have since lived in the greater Washington area. I wrote some of my first American experiences in the Epistolario di Ascolombo, a mailing to cyber-friends (in Italian).

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A few more interesting links:
 

Friends on the web:

• My wife Rebecca's homepage!!
• My son Bigi's homepage!
• Daniel -- i.e. the Gamb. His page also contains cool info on Origin of Life and on Israel.
• Andrea  --... alias Rebecca's sister. With many pretty pics from New England.
• Jim -- You should click here if you're interested in my work: he's my supervisor :)
• Tom and Katherine -- straight from Martha's Vineyard!
• Giovanni -- With many links on Economy, Judaism, and culture.
• Tamar -- The youngest webmaster around!! (Giovanni and Debora's baby-girl...)
• J.D.  -- This page is amazing to listen to... if your computer has a sound card of course.
• Supergrover -- From the Virtual Chess Club. With a lot of chess-related links.
• Riccardo -- The only family representative online!
• Wanna be here? Send me your address!

I put here some of my favorite pictures (somehow in chronological order).  Do you want to send me some more? Do you want me to add some pics? Email me!

• With my dad in Levanto
• With my friends in elementary school
• Daniel the Gamb and his guitar
• With chess World champions Polgar sisters
• In Etretat (France)
• Me parasailing
• A grande richiesta... Il mitico Pigna!!
• With Rebecca, Andrea and Rich
• With Rebecca in San Giminiano (Italy)
• With Rebecca, Ilaria and Pablo
• Paola and Noel
• A few minutes before Ph.D. defense
• With Rebecca at the Coral Island (Egypt)
• Me in the Computer Room
• Andrea and Rich
• Andrea and Rebecca (at Andrea's wedding)
• Me water rafting
• A screenshot from my wedding
• Me in the Great Room (at the Krasnow)
• Me in my Krasnow office
• Victoria, Adam, me, Rebecca, Carol, Andrea and Rich at the baby shower
• Me with other speakers at the NIH fellow retreat (September 2000)
• Me with Daniel Dennett in the Krasnow lobby (December 2000)