April 15, 2018

IBC Video

April 15, 2018/ Michelle Damiani

Umbria Center interviewed Michelle after the launch of Il Bel Centro in 2015. The video is in Italian, with English subtitles, and gives the reader a window into some of the book's resonant themes. It includes footage of Spello, as well as the town's celebration of Il Bel Centro.

Michelle Damiani

Website for Michelle Damiani, author of Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center, the funny and heartfelt memoir of an American family living in Spello, as well as Santa Lucia, a page-turner set on the Umbria border.

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