12 Facts About Carlotta Nobile

Carlotta Nobile was an Italian art historian, violinist, writer, blogger, and artistic director of Santa Sophia Academy chamber orchestra in Benevento from September 2010 up to her death.

Carlotta Nobile will remain active as Artistic Director of Santa Sophia until the untimely death.

Carlotta Nobile's work helped to lay the foundations for the rapid entry of the academy into the Fund for the Performing Arts of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

In October 2011, when she was 22, Carlotta Nobile was diagnosed with melanoma; she fronted every possible cure and various surgical interventions while keeping on her musical and artistic career, alternating concerts and hospitals recoveries.

Carlotta Nobile's spirituality was considerably inspired by Pope Francis's sermon calling young people to bear the cross with joy.

On Good Friday 2013, in the centre of Rome, Carlotta Nobile was looking for a church because she wanted to confess, but usually they are closed during the lunch break.

Just in the moments of the phone call, Carlotta Nobile was seized by a cerebral crisis in the Hospital of Carrara, where she had gone as a volunteer musician of the "Music Donors".

Carlotta Nobile wrote the pope a letter to communicate her faith in life and in this divine encounter.

Thanks to Don Trappolini, Carlotta Nobile was about to meet personally the pope, but in May 2013 her condition started to get worse and so she went back to Benevento, and she spent the last months of her life in her family house.

Carlotta Nobile's funerals were held in the morning of 17 July 2013 in the Basilica church of San Bartolomeo, so full to not contain all the people coming.

Carlotta Nobile was a seed of hope that offers a positive message, offers help to those who are discouraged in life and offers everyone the vision of a "beyond".

Carlotta Nobile is a positive example of the spirit of resilience Pope Francis always talks about: in fact she fronted the adversities with a deep strength and courage.