{"id":12410,"date":"2007-08-11T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/blog2\/?p=127"},"modified":"2007-08-11T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T20:34:49","slug":"business-as-usual-or-not-so-usual-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2007\/08\/11\/business-as-usual-or-not-so-usual-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Business as usual or not so usual in  Italy.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Business as usual here in Italy or not so usual. Well yes, the plane touched down here in beautiful Roma on August 1st. Of course I was met with all of the confusion that is going on at Leonardo Da Vinci airport and not being able to find baggage. Luckily I recovered all my bagage, since I had my manuscript and other assorted writings, appointment addresses, contact phone numbers my business meeting itinerary&nbsp;and disks&nbsp;packed safely away in my luggage.&nbsp;Although it took&nbsp;about 2 hrs to find them. Some others were not so lucky.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>And I just about got over my jet lag when my first appointment with the famed architect artist -Mariano Moroni and I had a meeting to go over my next book project that he will be illustrating.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>With the help of&nbsp;the<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.adgenta.com\/ads\/ads.dll\/click?client=primamedia1&#038;GUID=BUsiness+as+usual+or+not+so+us+%2808%2F11%2F07+22%3A33%3A52%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 4px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\" height=75 alt=\"Ads by AdGenta.com\" isMap src=\"http:\/\/ads.adgenta.com\/ads\/ads.dll\/view?client=primamedia1&amp;GUID=BUsiness+as+usual+or+not+so+us+%2808%2F11%2F07+22%3A33%3A52%29&amp;WIDTH=300&amp;HEIGHT=75&amp;keywords=art\" width=300 border=0><\/a> talented interns at my US &nbsp;office&nbsp;&nbsp;this summer, we were able to finish up the manuscript (just before I&nbsp;arrived)&nbsp;and I was ready to present it to him this past week&#8230;&nbsp;(as I held my breath) waiting to hear his reaction.<\/div>\n<div>He loved the manuscript proposal and has made a final agreement to do a collection of art work&nbsp;for my book.&nbsp; We will be meeting&nbsp;many times before I leave in &nbsp;September&nbsp;&nbsp;to go over the book and&nbsp;&nbsp;works of art&nbsp;he will be creating for this project.<\/div>\n<div>Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t reveal all of the details of this book project yet till it is just about ready to be published- but I can say it will be special and is an idea that was not the original project we had in mind, but&nbsp;I know you will like it. Also stay tuned for some special photos I will be posting on the blog of one of my meetings with Mariano Moroni and some of my other meetings here to discuss my book..<\/div>\n<div>The combination of food and art..&nbsp;what could be better..<\/div>\n<div>Ciao for &nbsp;now..<\/div>\n<div>Maria <\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\">https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=right><font FACE=\"VERDANA\" COLOR=\"#000080\" size=1><i>Powered By <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Qumana<\/a><\/i><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business as usual here in Italy or not so usual. Well yes, the plane touched down here in beautiful Roma on August 1st. 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