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My name is Marco Mocellin.

I live in the hills around Florence, where I write and work in a small wooden room in my garden.

I was born near Padua and moved here in 2003 to study Art History. Tuscany did the rest.

I am the author of pathways, talks, and texts devoted to art, places, and imagination.

I am interested in approaching images as living presences, still capable of speaking, of shaping the gaze, and of restoring depth to places.

For many years I worked as a guide in Florence and across Tuscany, and I still do when a place is worth moving through with attention, rather than consuming in a hurry and calling it an experience.

I also teach in collaboration with cultural institutions in Florence and lead lecture series for local associations and communities, trying to turn art history into an occasion for civic life and shared ways of seeing.