It would take a far more brilliant wordsmith than me to articulate the Civitella experience fully. It starts, I think, with an extraordinary group of people who make these buildings and their community tick. And together with the Fellows, they create an atmosphere...
My bedroom in the second floor of the castle has an armillary sphere, a model of the Solar System that includes Uranus, the planet William Herschel discovered in 1871. I was delighted to find the antique, it is not only an exquisite work on wood, paper and metal, but...
I worked on several projects while at Civitella: translation project, a collection of essays, and a novel. What they all have in common is the idea of translation, whether translation between languages, cultures or emotions. This time at Civitella gave me a pocket of...
