We were deeply saddened to lose Dana Greene at the end of 2023.  We first encountered Dana in 2018, in planning the International Conference for the 100th anniversary of Evelyn Underhill’s 1919 biography of Jacopone.  Ambitiously, we wanted to have the world’s greatest living expert on Evelyn Underhill as a speaker at our conference.  Only a little research was needed to identify that person as the American scholar, Dana Greene.

One of the many links between Todi and Ireland is La Casa Dipinta (‘the painted house’), the house where the Irish artist Brian O’Doherty and his wife, art historian Barbara Novak, lived in Todi for several decades from 1975.  Over many years O’Doherty turned the entire house into an artwork, covering most surfaces with unique wall paintings and distinctive rope drawing installations.  It is now one of the most popular attractions for visitors to Todi.