ALESSIO IERVOLINO
Developer, Creative, Writer, History enthusiast.
About
Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate
I started my work as a Web Developer with Olawur.com in 2016. Olawur.com is a project born from my passion for Scandinavian culture, mixed with the knowledge of every piece that forms the professional figure of a Full Stack Web Developer. The name of the project - Olawur - comes from the Scandinavian name Olavur, where the "V" has been switched to "W" to tie the Nordic culture with the World Wide Web. My aim as a Web Developer is to develop websites suitable for everyone: from small business to larger projects. My ultimate goal is to use my web development knowledge to innovate the way people and business interact with others.
Creativity and Development
And though I oft have passed them by, a day will come at last when I
As an independent writer and someone with a degree in Literature and Linguistics, my approach to creativity in web development is rather peculiar. I am used to, and I like to, think outside the box, I like to innovate, to question rules and ideas, and I strive to give new answers to old and new problems. What made me realize that I wanted to have a career in web development is, on one hand, all the great things you can achieve with technology and, on the other hand, the impact that technology had in contemporary society.
I have studied anthropology and sociology during my university days, and being in the tech world has really helped me understand what a powerful tool technology is. Like all the powerful tools, though, technology needs to be used in an intelligent way: I want to use it to connect people, I want to be part of a positive change in people lives, maybe not by developing something that will bring the world to a utopia, but if I can just only bring a business closer to its customers or help someone spreads their message, I will be more than happy to have used technology positively.
Being a Web Developer for me doesn't mean being a genius of a programmer, but it means being able to create intelligent projects that are innovative, secure and accessible; because we shouldn't leave anyone behind.
Reading and Studying
Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
To be a writer, one has to be an avid reader first. Reading has accompanied me during my life since I was five years old and I would say that is a big part of who I am. I love reading fictions, historical books, books about technology and even books in Latin, when I feel crazy enough to try to remember the meaning of Latin words. With reading comes studying, and I have always being torn by humanities studies on one side and tech studies on the other.
Studying for me is a pleasure, and it has always been. In a fast paced world, it is often forgotten how important is to sit for a moment and think, or how is important to understand all the pieces that have brought us here where we are. I see the innovations of web development as the "here and now", and my humanities interests as the "how and why" of contemporary times. Both are really important, and knowing both makes my approach to work quite atypical.
As the verses of Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red quoted above, starting my career in web development has been like taking the hidden path that I've never had the courage to take, and that has then changed my life.
Projects
History Fact
The tragedy of Beatrice Cenci
Beatrice Cenci - Italian pronunciation [beaˈtriːtʃe ˈtʃɛntʃi] - was born in Rome in the 1577, she was a member of the Cenci family, an important family of the Roman aristocracy at the time. Her mother Ersilia Santacroce died when she was only seven, and she was sent to a monastery by her father.
Beatrice was soon sent back to live with her father, Francesco Cenci, his second wife and Beatrice's brothers Giacomo, Bernardo and Francesco at Palazzo Cenci. Beatrice's father soon revealed himself as the horrible person he was. Chronicles of the times said that he abused Beatrice's mother several times until her death, and he then began to abuse Beatrice. Although he was sent to prison for other crimes, he was always freed early and treated with the utmost respect because of his noble title.
Beatrice and her brothers tried to inform the authorities about the abuses and the frequent abuse that both her and her brothers had to endure, but they turned a blind eye, even if most of the people of Rome knew how Francesco Cenci really was. When her father discovered that Beatrice and his other sons tried to denounce him, he sent them to the family castle outside Rome so that they couldn't damage his reputation.
The four brothers, unable to defend themselves from their father, decided that the only way to get rid of him was to kill him, and so they asked two of Francesco's vassals to join them in their conspiracy. In 1598, the two vassals helped the four brothers drug Francesco, but he didn't die. The second time, they convinced a group of local bandits to assault Francesco while he was outside his castle, but they failed. Soon after this, the four brothers joined force with Francesco's second wife, and they killed him with a hammer and some nails, and then threw the body out of a window to make it look like an accident.
No one investigated the death of Francesco soon after his death, but when pope Clement VIII ordered to exhume Francesco's body and have two surgeons inspect it, the real causes of the death became evident: it wasn't an accident, and he was killed. The Cenci brothers and the two vassals were captured and later tortured until they confessed their crime. Beatrice confessed her involvement in the murder of Francesco only after being tortured.
In the morning of 11 September 1599, Beatrice and her brothers were taken to Castel Sant'Angelo square, where a huge crowd gathered to see the execution. It was a very hot day, and among the crowd there were two of the greatest painters of the time: Michelangelo da Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi. Giacomo, one of Beatrice's brother, was tormented with hot thongs and then his head was smashed with a mallet. Beatrice was beheaded with a sword. That day, only the youngest brother of Beatrice was spared. The execution of the Cenci brothers was a gruesome spectacle, and many people of the crowd died because of the heat, some of them even fell off the bridge of Castel Sant'Angelo.
To this day, the legend of Beatrice Cenci is very much alive, and it's said that she still walks near Castel Sant'Angelo, carrying her severed head.
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