Alessandra Barabaschi is an art historian, an author, and an enthusiastic cosmopolitan. Since the day she was born in Parma (Italy), she is travelling around the world to get in touch with people, countries, and culture different from her own. She speaks several languages and, other than in Italy, she has lived, for example, in England, Iran, and Nigeria. Since 2007 her new base is Bonn, where she has founded her own PR agency in 2009. At the end of 2010 her first book has been published: A work in four volumes in English dedicated to the magnificent violins of Antonio Stradivari.