THE Musician
A melia had felt a yearning to visit the Monastero Santa Maria di Cortona since she was eight years old, when she had first looked through an old family photo album with her Italian grandmother.
‘That is my Uncle Domenico Lombardi,’ Gina had explained, pointing to a man in white robes. ‘He was ordained as a monk in the 1880s and became Abbot of the Monastery in 1908. His calling has always been a mystery
