Sport and music are my main hobbies.

I can't remember a time in my life when I wasn’t involved in sports. Running, swimming, and since 2004, climbing. 

I’m a certified FASI (Italian Sport Climbing Federation) instructor.  I’ve climbed all over Europe (the first picture above was taken in Sardinia, at Ulassai climbing crag, while the other in Margalef, Spain). 

In many interviews with both well-known and lesser-known climbers, they talk about a state of completeness with nature and the surrounding environment when climbing. I share the feeling. That's why climbing has also been, and keeps being, one of the triggers for my work on human-nature relations, climate change, and biocultural loss. It made clear to me in a very profound way—not through logic, analysis, or structured thought, but through emotion as the result of practice—that we and nature are not two separate things, and that destroying nature is, in fact, destroying ourselves. 

As for music, I play the guitar—mostly blues and rock, though I aspire to jazz (which I find more challenging). I love the blues of the origins, the raw, heartfelt sound of early blues legends like Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Son House, and Blind Willie Johnson. I also admire more modern blues icons like B.B. King, as well as Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

When it comes to jazz, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk, among other geniuses are my favourite jazz players.