My experience at Civitella was a good shot in the arm. As if being there alone was not already enough for me, meeting those people there, those Fellows there, those exchanges of points of views and those shared good moments was amazingly enriching. As I reflect now, I...
Excerpt from the novel started at Civitella, called The Institute for Taxi Poetry: The hierarchy inside a company is more informal than it might seem to an external observer. Once in a blue moon a driver graduates to the position of sliding-door man. About so often a...
My five weeks at Civitella have been a wonderful time. The steady rhythm of uninterrupted days in the studio, the quiet and concentrating atmosphere, the beautiful surroundings, the warm companionship, the generosity of food and wine: all these are the ingredients of...
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...
