For the debut of the Italian sabre at the Olympic Games, we also talk in Salerno dialect. The fencer, indeed, was born in Campania 25 years ago. The “bronze collector” (two consecutive third places at the 2014 Strasbourg Europeans and at Montreux 2015) is ready to tread on the platform in Rio and live her Olympic dream. Between an English course and Sunday school, she was determined to become a volleyball player, then at 10 years old she started fencing has has never stopped since. And Brazil is also a starting point; one stop on a path of many victories. At the end of the day, her passion is to travel.