First visit to the ‘Lo Studio di Luigi Pirandello’
Today I spent some of today with Lucia and Dina of ‘Lo Studio di Luigi Pirandello’, which is fostered by the remaining Pirandello family. They were very nice to me and gave me a personal tour at one point handing me Pirandello’s fountain pen to hold which he used to write several of his plays so that I saw that the nib was made in the image of the Eiffel Tower. They also presented me with two small paintings that Pirandello had made. I informally introduced my project to them and they were very kind and generous. So a good beginning. Good news also that a young art historian in Rome, Francesco Buonerba, has approached me to offer support to the wider project. Although I have been delighted to learn that on my behalf the British School at Rome can make any formal introduction in Rome I need to support my work.
I begin making the drawings relative to the ‘Treatment for Six Characters’ text from the end of this week, and from there the project takes physical shape
