Category Archives: Vercelli

A mixed bag

Posted on June 21, 2007 by robhunt510

All pix Vercelli In the green, hilly, valley of Les Charmettes just outside Chambéry, Jean-Jacques Rousseau found another refuge, this time with Madame de Warens, the lover he named “maman.” His “rights of man” politics were dangerous personally – and … Continue reading →

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The Discrete Charm of the Vercellese

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

In Vercelli, a secret jewel of Lombardy, Ferrari is a quite good Renaissance painter and Casanova runs the hardware store. “You are like a land no one has ever mentioned before,” Pavese wrote of the place and from the first … Continue reading →

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Vercelli: Tom Finds the Fork

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

Any town with newspaper cuttings of Hannah Arendt and James Bond in a shop window has to be good, and Vercelli is. “I rod from Sian at about foure of the clocke in the morning, the fourteenth day of June … Continue reading →

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Found on the Memory Stick

Posted on June 18, 2007 by robhunt510

I am in places where churches are full, such as Vercelli today: this was in Nevers. Perhaps it features in the next Dan Brown.

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