Her students imagine her in front of a fire place reading the classics!
"My favorite place is
Pai di Sopra, a small hamlet on the Eastern shore of lake Garda.
My parents own a summer house there.
It is a place where I go in the summer during the
school holidays, when the heat in Verona city gets unbearable: this is typical of the Verona people, by the way.
In Pai, as you leave the trafficated road by the lake, you immediately start to go uphill.
Before the limit of the wood, there is a intersection of small, cobblestone streets and paths entering the shady green.
I love that intersection: it is
an enchanted spot that looks like a painting.
On your right, you feel a delicate breeze coming from a creek and you hear the
bubbling water of an ancient marble fountain, used in the past for washing bed sheets.
If you stop and look back, you still see the lake among the red roofs of the old houses.
It is a very inspirational place to me: I feel suspended and time stops for a while.
As I go up to the tiny San Marco church, and stop on the terrace facing the water, I feel a sense of extreme lightness, like I can fly.
It is a place frozen in time, very
archaic and classic!"
