Dear Colleague,

This is just a short note to say that I shall be delighted to meet you in Urbino next September. As you know, Ted, Maresi and Graziella enthusiastically asked me to set up a seminar on the Moretti system. I am trying to do the best I can to offer you a “Morettian week”.

Adapted from extensive interviews of Dr Deragna conducted in 1999 by Nigel Bradley

Preface: In 1996, the Italian Minister of University, Education and Scientific and Technological Research, issued a decree authorizing Italian Universities to grant diplomas in graphology, provided that the curriculum proposed were found acceptable. Earning a university diploma in graphology is not possible anywhere else in the world in the year 2000, not even in France or Switzerland, the two countries where graphology is held in the highest esteem (In Spain, it is now possible to take a three-year graphology course in a university (Valencia) but the diploma is granted by the university's Faculty of Legal Medicine ). How did this most extraordinary event take place? How is it that one can study graphology today in two Italian universities, Urbino and Lumsa (In Rome) and earn a diploma?

The idea of having a Moretti seminar in historic Urbino in September appealed to many Montreal participants. Aside from Urbino's importance as the site of the famed Moretti Institute, Italy's graphological mecca and the location of one of the two universities which now offer a three-year course of study leading to a diploma in graphology, a visit there encompasses a trip to Italy, with all the scenic, gustatory and cultural pleasures which go with a visit to that tourist-friendly country.