Your Italian
homecoming
experience

An unshakeable dreamer, he’s always been such a huge lover of ancients and of everything reminding him about the past. Absolutely passionate about whatever sounds or tastes like “international” and an avid foreign languages learner, he holds a degree in International Relations and European Studies. Back in 2006, he started making his first steps in the genealogy field - such a mutual love that he’s so enthusiastically turned out to be his lifetime dream job, where both his fascinations for languages and history would perfectly merge. All along tiny old streets and alleys, within the stunning off-the-beaten-path towns of Italy, his work takes him to so many among civil and church archives on a daily basis, so to make the dream come true for all those people of Italian descent willing to tie themselves back to their roots. At the beginning of 2016, he founded Bella Italia Genealogy, a family history services firm which aims to bring about a straight approach to genealogy, by the exclusive use of on-site Italian sources – hence the company’s popular motto “your Roots on the Ground experience”

Born and raised in Campania, Italy, but with heart and mind around the world. She is a freelance translator and web writer, as well as long-time holding a Master’s degree in Comparative Languages and Cultures at “L’Orientale” University of Naples. A vivid enthusiat of all about writing, reading, languages, arts and travelling, she collaborates to some culture websites too. She joined the MuseodelCognome’s crew three years ago serving as translator.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, to an Italian family, he moved to Padula, Salerno, Italy at a young age. Music, food and travel passionate, he gained much experience as a courier. Traveling around the world give him the opportunity to learn about so many different places and cultures. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, he joined the Museum’s crew during some genealogy conferences that he helped them run across Brazil last November.

Freelance surveyor with an over ten-year experience at cultural associations, while long-time engaged in activities and projects for the touristic promotion of her local area.

Martina wants to live in a world filled up with creativity, books that come bundled with extra dark chocolate and music that you can smell in the air at every single corner (fantasy, would you say? Well, it’s just a matter of time). Born and raised in a nice, tiny town known as Padula, she’s going through the peculiarities of the melting pot of hsouthern scents from Campania, Lucania and Cilento. She’s a compelling anglophile, neo-graduated in English and Japanese at “L’Orientale” University of Naples. Her passion for everything written keeps her busy most of the time, but when she’s not frantically typing and erasing stuff, you might find her wandering through the trees or properly bothering her neighbors as an amateur drummer. Hopefully in the near future, Martina plans to become a music journalist, whuiletraveling around the world looking for the unlimited shades of this boundless inspiration. Her won mantra is “don’t translate the untranslatable”, but she uses the one going by “there’s no problem that good music can’t fix” on a daily basis.

A self-taught drawer, he’s been cultivating his passion for illustration since the time he was only a child, though he completed his studies in totally another field. In fact, he acquired professional skills in the audio engineering. Up until 2012, he carried out a music project as composer and guitarist, once he later decided to study Comics at the Italian School of Comics in Naples. Right from that moment on, he started collaborating on so many projects as cartoonist, anda colorist too. The latest onehe’s been working on is “My Ancestry Comic Book”,which started when he met Michele Cartusciello, Manager of the Museo del Cognome.