“Okay,” she said. “Enough thinking now. Tell, no.” “You’ve heard this one already.” “That’s all right. Tell.” So he ate, and told her an old story, which he had told her many times before: in the days when he was just a...
I planned to hit the ground running upon my arrival at Civitella. And I did, until my hard drive died a slow, painful, noisy death. Bereft of my most dear and necessary tool, what to do? What to do, when each of the others is happily immersed in his or her work? What...
I came to Civitella having just finished a draft of a novel about a man who becomes a human trafficker to support his family. I didn’t know what I’d work on here, but next thing I knew I was writing a love story. Girl meets boy, falls in lust, falls in love, get...
Working in Civitella is a wonderful experience. Probably it is one of the best places in the world for a composer to do his work.The silence, the beautiful environment and the company of so many outstanding artists are a stimulus for creativity. I had a beautiful...
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...
