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Vissi D'Arte; Vissi D'Amore
in absenzia veritas
Created on 2004-03-15 04:09:28 (#2514969), last updated 2009-11-20
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Basic Info| Name: | T.I. Burton |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 10-01 |
| Location: | Oxford,, United Kingdom |
| Website: | Facebook Me |
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Isabella, n. A half-Italian, half-American bred in Paris, Rome, and New York, who likes DH Lawrence, Wilde, and patristics.
To do list:
Become charming and coquettish novelist, living an itinerant and often scandalous lifestyle that takes me throughout cobblestoned European capitals.
Write grandly labyrinthine meditation in novel form on Medieval monasticism, nineteenth-century aesthetes, and psychological complexity, replete with footnotes
Incite ideological revolution
Acquire home in Northern Italy, original Gutenberg Bible, two horses, three husbands
Favorite Music: Liszt, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Chopin, Bjork, Vivaldi, Shakira, Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, The Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Tom Waits, the Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Bach, Mozart, Simon and Garfunkel, New Order, Johnny Cash, Fiona Apple, Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi, Berlioz, Gregorian Chant, Stephen Sondheim, Aimee Mann,
Favorite Movies: Beauty and the Beast, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Casablanca, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Ieri, Oggi, e Domani, Last Year at Marienbad, Anne of the Thousand Days, His Girl Friday, Belle de Jour
Favorite Books: The Iliad, The Aeneid, Women in Love, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, Crime and Punishment, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Paradise Lost, Vanity Fair, Les Miserables, Brideshead Revisited, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Faust, The Leopard, Antigone, Quo Vadis, Joan of Arc, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Orthodoxy, The Charterhouse of Parma, Fathers and Sons,The Western Canon, The Magic Mountain, Prufrock and Other Observations, Letters from Felix
InspirationsM:Cleopatra VII, Livia (Augusta), Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, Isabella D'Este, Lorenzo di Medici, Isabella Burton, Antonia Susan Byatt, Marcel Proust, St. Paul, St. Origen, St. Augustine, Katharine Hepburn, Professor Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot, Sir Richard Burton, Lawrence Olivier,Luigi Pirandello, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Marcel Proust, Jean Anouilh, A.S. Byatt, Robertson Davies, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Moliere, Thomas Mann
Favorite Historical Things The Roman Republic, Eastern Christian theology, Byzantine mosaics, Renaissance paintings, Neo-Platonism, Counter-Reformation theologies, Burke-ian Conservatives, Viennese Secessionist movement, art nouveau, nationalists, reactionaries, Elizabethans, dreamers, guitar players, explorers
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Schools:
Ecole Active Bilingue - Paris, Paris, France (1995 - 1996)Chapin School - New York, NY (1996 - 2003)
Hunter College High School - New York, NY (2003 - 2004)
St. Stephen's School - Roma, Lazio, Italy (2004 - 2005)
Phillips Exeter Academy - Exeter, NH (2005 - 2008)
University of Oxford - Oriel College - Oxford, England - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (2008 - present)
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