I’ve just noticed (because Amazon emailed me about it) that Aprile, Nanni Moretti’s 1998 follow-up to his terrific film Caro Diario, is being released on August 13 on (Region 2) DVD in the UK. Here it is on Amazon.co.uk.
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Staying in a convent can be a peaceful, inexpensive alternative to a hotel but one disadvantage is that there’s likely to be a curfew. Generally starting somewhere between 10pm and midnight, the curfew means that convent accomodation isn’t generally for the late night crowd. However, if you’re an obsessive reader and like to round off the day’s explorations with a book, it can be perfect.
The first time I stayed in a Roman convent I spent my evenings of politely enforced solitude reading My Secret Book, a comparitively little-known work by the Renaissance poet Petrarch. The book, which Petrarch apparently never intended for publication (hence the title), takes the form of three imagined dialogues between the poet and St Augustine, in which Petrarch deals with his unhappiness by confronting his various vices and weaknesses (more…)
