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Greetings from Mondovì: Fireworks
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Siamo in Italia! It means We are in Italy!, and people here often say this to us when they cannot explain some bureaucratic tangle or incomprehensible administrative regulation. With a characteristic gesture that is half-shrug, half-surrender, they let…
Greetings from Mondovì: The Good Neighbor, or Everyone Knows That Guy
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE There is a fire burning merrily in my bedroom fireplace, a fire of fagus logs. I ordered the wood this morning and it was delivered this evening–and there is quite a story about THAT. The story has a…
The Harp and the Woman
SILVIA PIO and LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE (edited by) Anima Keltia on “Vita Dominae – Medieval and Renaissance Music”. Vita Dominae is the debut album by the Belgian artist Mélanie Bruniaux, aka Anima Keltia, released on the Maxy Sound label in…
Greetings from Mondovì: Carnevale
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Tomorrow is Martedi Grasso (Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday), and the last day of Carnevale. Here in Mondovi` we have been celebrating since 24 January with processions, presentations, ceremonies and formal dinners, dancing and general revelry most every night…
Greetings from Mondovì – Mongolfiere 2016
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE January can be a dreary month. The post-holiday weeks feel anticlimactic, empty, with little on the horizon except a return to normal routine. But here in Mondovi` January brings excitement and wonder as the city hosts its…
A Pair of Ivory-White Shoes, size 35
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE and SILVIA PIO On the sixth day of October 1957 Agnese and Raimondo got married early in the morning and not at high mass as normally expected in Agnese’s village. Her parents had arranged a family lunch at…