Writing Workshop: Essay Craft with Wallis Wilde Menozzi Organised by the Florence Literary Society in the morning with emergency coffee and short bread biscuits
From a titillating discussion opportunity on the deep whys of our craft to the meeting with the authors of the paintings that spurred our inspiration on a sunny Sunday at Villa Il Palmerino. My Karamazovian portrait was really intended to be Antonio from “The Merchant of Venice”. Margaret’s brush channelled the greed of the merchant, though,making it reappear in my story as well as feeding other fresh sollicitations that, twists of life helping, led me to write another poem.
Working on the same model, another student told me, is like producing the same thing with a different calligraphy. I would have loved to see her renditions as well as to hear, thank you Wallis, the other painters sharing their impressions on the stories or poems the others wrote giving voice to the tracks of their brushes.
Too bad on Cecil for not thanking enough publicly his students for spurring our pens in a tight timed yet nurtured by the open spaces of the Villa swept by the waft of Lee’s mastery contest.
Thank you for feeding our ears with Nahomi’s hearty cello and Gierde’s subtly interpreting soprano voice.
Thank you for the richly informative lecture given by Vita.
Thank you for the delicious food freshly and carefully laid on the table by Federica and her elves.
