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In this century, my name is Giovanni Fontana, and I’m a quarter of a century old, plus three quarters of a year. In all, that makes me a half, rather than a whole lot of nothing.

I was born in Florence (near a cemetery), conceived in Tuscany (in front of a cemetery), from a mother from Tuscany and an American father. I’ve lived in Rome for a lifetime (near a cemetery), graduated with a degree in textual philology at the Sapienza University of Rome (opposite a cemetery). Since I was a child, I wanted to be a capitalist, so I learned all the world’s capitals by heart. I still remember them now. I retain a bit of the Florentine, linguistically and with Batistuta’s soccer jersey. But I sustain the Rome spirit: the one place in the world where when you linger a bit when a traffic light changes a truck driver says “eh guys, if it was any greener, it wouldn’t change.”