Born and raised in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, Valentina Carlini studied medicine in Geneva for one quarter before studying classics in Zurich, and has never looked back. As a philologist, she deeply believes we could have a better world if people would cultivate dead languages, handwriting, arts with movement of the body, brain, soul and feelings. She also believes we can ask anything, but shouldn’t lecture.

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