My name is Marco Mocellin. I was born and raised not far from Padua, but I have lived for many years in the hills around Florence, where I now share a stone house with my wife and our two daughters. Still, the place where I truly feel “at home” is the garden: that’s where my studio is, a small wooden cabin where I work and read. Woods, olive trees, chickens, and books, a small paradise.
I work as a licensed tour guide throughout Tuscany and collaborate with the British Institute of Florence, as well as with other Florentine cultural institutions. Alongside this, I organize art history lecture cycles for local cultural associations, community clubs, and Casa del Popolo venues across the Florentine area.
I have a degree in Art History and work as an independent licensed tour guide throughout Tuscany.
I also teach Art History at the British Institute of Florence and other Florentine institutions.
Additionally, I volunteer as an Art History lecturer for a local cultural association in Monteloro, where I live, offering informal courses to bring people together through art.
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I know of no merit in myself that could in any way make me worthy of this honor, unless one were to call merit the immense and inexpressible love I bear for this dear and blessed Tuscany—homeland of all elegance and every noble custom, and eternal seat of civilization—which I ardently desire to be granted the privilege of calling my second homeland, where, if heaven wills, I may be allowed to spend the rest of my life and take my last breath.
Giacomo Leopardi
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