Louise | Italy

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Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Mother
Location Carmine Superiore, Lago Maggiore, Italy
Introduction Wife. Mother. Scribbler, editor. Book lover. Cat lady. Chicken herd. Drathaar wrangler. Sheperdess. Wilderness tamer. English coach. Grounded traveller. Happy exile. Carmine Superiore appassionata.
Interests Parenting, Carmine Superiore, reading, gardening, travel, medieval history, 17th-century history, ballet, contemporary dance, opera, film.
Favorite Movies Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gypsy, Bladerunner, Three Colours: Red White & Blue, Angel Heart, Casablanca, Belle de Jour, Last Tango in Paris, 91/2 Weeks, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, St Trinians, Being John Malkovitch, everything by Peter Greenaway including Prospero's Books, Prospero's Books, Wings of Desire, The Last Picture Show
Favorite Music Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, La Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Edith Piaf, Purcell, Mozart, J.S. Bach, Pucini, Stravinsky, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, sacred choral music, Gregorian chant, Meredith Monk, Dusty Springfield, Ella Fitzgerald, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, The Eagles
Favorite Books Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Name of the Rose, Baudolino, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Lolita, Atonement, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Brown, Tristram Shandy, His Dark Materials, The Little White Horse, Paradise Lost, Klein's Etymological Dictionary, Under the Tuscan Sun, King Lear, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cosmicomics, Wolf Hall

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