Among the many Italian celebrities who showed up was Federico Fellini, whom Gore had met when they were both working at Cinecittà studios – Gore on Ben-Hur and Fellini (whom Gore called "Fred") on La Dolce Vita.īen-Hur was one of several movie mishaps for Gore in Hollywood-on-the-Tiber. When Kenneth Tynan came to Rome, Gore enlisted me to help him and Howard prepare a guest list for a party in his honour. Among the Italians he enjoyed meeting was Italo Calvino, whom he admired greatly. It hasn't much to say about about Gore's life in Rome, where he and Howard Austen had moved into a penthouse apartment 30 years earlier, except for the observation: "I had never had a proper human-scale village life anywhere on earth until I settled into that old Roman street." Rather than the dolce vita crowd, Gore liked to mix with the "villagers". Gore Vidal's memoir Palimpsest was written mostly in Ravello around 1994.
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