John E. Stith met with Italian science-fiction people Sandro Pergameno, Lanfranco Fabriani, Massimo Mongai, Marc Welder, Francesco Verso, Umberto Rossi in Rome on 24 September 2013.
He met Marco Santini in Milan on 1 October.
It was great fun to meet these kind people and get some insight into the current state of Italian SF.