Lego and Serendipity

I have no particular talents but I am a very curious person. I like books, stories, the radio, podcasts, maps, Neil deGrasse Tyson and cosmology. I like reading, listening to and collecting pieces of information. I like to organize and sum them up to build my own idea of the world.

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I also like translating and building bridges between slices of the world that speak and think in different languages. Translation has always fascinated me, ever since I was in high school and used to spend my afternoons learning Latin and translating short texts into Italian. Long before I developed a passion for Lucretius and Cicero, however, I had other passions too. The most important one was building houses, parks and cities with Lego bricks.

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Translating is a bit like playing with Lego bricks. Every brick is a word, every new construction is a text, and once you are finished, your only wish is to start all over again.

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Like many other activities that require human ingenuity, translation is search, patience and perseverance. Sometimes it brings frustration, but often it allows the translator to make lucky, unexpected and surprising discoveries.