Born in that part of Italy once called Magna Graecia (Great Greece), Paolo lived his first youth in Rocca Imperiale, a little village near the Jonian sea in Lucania, where since ten he found the great love of his life: Latin and ancient Greek. He studied at the Liceo Classico and then moved to Perugia (in Middle Italy) to start studying Classics (ancient Greek and Latin). Those have been his most exciting years; besides improving his knowledge of the two classical languages, he learned some important things, such as how to cook good pasta for five hungry guys (his homemates) without many ingredients. During his University years in Perugia, he spent one year as an Erasmus student in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) to learn German and have an European experience; there he had the opportunity to know very interesting people and to organize exchanges between the German and Italian students. After his Laurea (final degree) in Perugia, he spent two years as a student of a Dottorato (sort of a PhD), interrupted to come to Penn. Here at Penn he is studying at the Department of Classics and serving as a GA at Gregory. His interests are everything connected with culture and good food!