First of all, I apologies for my poor English: it is not my first language.

Well, you are right, Matt: I am really surprised. I did not know of Italian tartan. I think it is really nice: colours are strictly related to Italian heritage. Good work. Thank you for letting me know of Italian Clan.

My family is very ancient. It has more than 1,000 years. My father and I collected a lot of pieces of information about our genealogy and heraldry. They are published on http://www.dejudicibus.it/genealogia/ . So I understand being proud to belong to a clan.

I am a consultant of knowledge management, but in my spare time I am a novel writer. I already published four books and, on May 2005, it will be published in Italy my first Fantasy book. There are no native Italian writers of fantasy. I am the first one to be published by Armenia, a leader publisher of Fantasy in my country. In my books Elves speak Scottish Gaelic. I use that language inside the book, providing the translation to Italian in the footnotes. I do not know Gaelic too, but I have a collaborator that translated it to that beautiful language.

And I love everything is related to Celtic culture. I am now designing the web site of my trilogy. I used a lot of Celtic knots to do it. All drawings are mine. I think Celtic knots are simply wonderful.

I am glad to be part of this community. Thank you for welcome.