Roberto welcomed us into his beautiful apartment which is upstairs from his family home - he had left some milk, and Italian pastry for us, and when he came by on our second day to make sure everything was ok, he brought a jar of his mum's homemade apricot jam - delicious!
Although we shared the front door of the house with the family we didn't see them very much at all. I met his dad one day, who very kindly instructed me to lock the expensive, rented, road bikes in his studio (apparently they are very high risk items for theft). Unfortunately I can't speak Italian, so we couldn't have a proper conversation, but he seems like a very nice man - great artist!!