p.m.pecci has devoted his life to pursuing his love for art, beauty and history. A self-avowed Renaissance man, he enjoys painting, writing, music, gardening, nature and the stars - the basic art of creating - and he has a passion for traveling, especially to his beloved hill towns of Tuscany. He considers his most prized works of art to be his wife and four children, with whom he enjoys sharing his life and his adventures. After a very rewarding fifty-year career in banking, he now enjoys the luxury of pursuing on a fulltime basis, those things about which he is most passionate. While doing extensive research for his first novel Confessions of a Corsair, in THE PECCI CHRONICLES series, Paul and his wife, Eileen have enjoyed traveling to many of the areas which are brought to life in his book. Those remote hills and stony passages, the rolling mist and groves of olive and cypress trees, the ancient stone buildings and the cavernous, moss- covered ruins of antiquity still call out to him. The voices of the past still have a story to be told, and they beckon him to follow. When not traveling, Paul and Eileen enjoy the peace and tranquility of their home, their gardens, and their books on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.