In my time at Civitella Ranieri I worked on a novel set in my adopted city. The extract is from Part I, The Cafe Europa. The narrator is looking back in his pedantic way to the early days of his retirement in the mid-1980s. Excerpt From The Discovery The...
My second day at Civitella Ranieri, as a walked across the shady grounds in the late afternoon, it struck me that I was a very lucky Fellow. Here I was in a beautiful part of the world, surrounded by gorgeous landscape and a short drive not only from great art but...