He and his first wife, Lola Segre, lived in Rome until her sudden death in 1960.
[1] Creagh returned to London, losing all his books in transit, but returned to Italy in the late 1960s, travelling with Derek Raymond in an army truck.
After she inherited the rights to Lady Chatterley's Lover, the pair were able to buy an old farmhouse called Spanda north of Siena.
[1] Creagh met the composer John Eaton while teaching at Princeton University, and wrote several libretti for him.
[1] In the early 1980s Creagh and Barr separated, and Creagh subsequently lived with his partner Susan Rose, née James, at Panzano in Chianti.