Born in L’Aquila (“The Eagle”), Adriano de Matteis spent his childhood in Abruzzo, Pakistan, and Canada. Returning to Milan, he graduated with a degree in mathematics that included writing a thesis on compositional techniques used by Igor Stravinsky. Today Adriano works in the insurance field, and spends a little less time in airports and airplanes, where he often collected the ideas and words to write “The Wounded Eagle”.