Tetrogrammaton

Tetracketka

This is the house of Bracho Fortebracho, who was in, my dates are always bad, let's say, 14th century.

He was king of his kingdom.

His kingdom went all the way to the Adriatic.

It was big.

He was very powerful. I like all powerful people they suffer from

hubris. I think he took on the Pope once too often. Bingo. This is his house and it's his town.

And it's an important town because it's between Perugia and Chita de Castello. So, and it sort of

changes its allegiances over the centuries back and forth.

How did you end up coming to this town?

There's an English connection and I was told about any excuse to come to Italy, especially

by then I had my house.

I bought a ruin in 90, was it 91, something like that, et cetera.

And I was invited at the festival and all I knew is that the previous year Donald Sutherland

had been there.

So I thought, okay, it's a class festival.

It was great, it was wonderful, and got to know the people, and particularly

Marisa Berna, who was central to the thing.

And when I bought this house, there was the Ride TV, I decided, ours was the perfect place

for a repetitore, because ours is, we've got a bit of a ruin of a castle. I mean, it's the kind of a castle with no upkeep

It's just falled down, but it was it it dominated the valley and controlled the valley and

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