Collection of 5 short poems.

As the author writes in the final note, "these five short cantos are fueled by the winds of renewal in poetic language that saw Nanni Balestrini as its tireless creator and interpreter”. In their suspended essentiality, the poems “encourage the reader to interpret […], in keeping with the new poetic sensibility introduced by Balestrini."

Print run of 75 copies printed letterpress. Texts were typeset by hand in original foundry type. One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words and the lines of text.  
This booklet includes a woodcut by Adriano Porazzi, colored by Alberto Casiraghy.

This is a first-edition book. 

The descent into the underworld and the ascent to paradise are crucial themes common to Eastern philosophies, pagan cults, and the religions of the book. Zolla broadens his scope to include related themes such as the fear of death, martyrdom, resurrection, and the connection with the afterlife, a prerogative of shamans and magicians.

The volume is divided into the following chapters: Military Service: A Religious Theme; In the Jewish World; Two Kinds of Shamanism; The Visit to Hades; The Synthesis of Katabasis and Anastasis, Suicide; The Early Christian World; War in the Family; Mental health; The Taoist Solution; The War to Create the Gods; The Celtic Wisdom of Merlin.

Language: Italian. 
Limited edition of 250 copies typeset by hand in metal type.

Galeazzo di Tarsia (Naples 1520 - Belmonte Calabro 1553) left us only 50 love poems, but of high caliber: "There is no history or anthology of Italian literature in which Galeazzo di Tarsia does not occupy an undisputed place," writes philologist Gianfranco Contini.

His verses echoes Dante and Petrarch, with a restlessness that already reaches towards Leopardi (from here he drew his “ermo colle”):

Io voi quando vedrò, pregio del cielo,

ignuda folgorar su l’erba fresca,

o sotto molle e prezïoso velo?

Ahi, di misero amante van desiri!

Donna, s’esser non può, non vi rincresca

che da quest’ermo colle io vi sospiri.

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From Shamanism to Eastern philosophies, from Gnosticism to Christological heresies, this essay describes some of the most extreme worship practices, demonstrating how some religions serve as instruments of social control, while others, conversely, aim for absolute individual freedom.

«The strange religious flora and fauna created by our ancestors must be studied in depth, since religions are the simplest global programs for understanding the social functioning of minds» J. P. Culianu.

Language: Italian.
This is a first-edition book.

In this essay, Elémire Zolla condenses Culianu’s essence of thought. Joan Petru Culianu was an historian of religions born in Romania in 1950.

Twenty autobiographical poems which depict salient experiences occurred in the childhood and youth of the Poet: his birth, the first voyage, his step-mother, his father, his first time at sea, sex, the winter school, shyness, the southern land, …

Pablo Neruda sent these inedited poems to his friend Alberto Tallone, who published them in first edition in 1963. 

Italian and Spanish edition.
Edition of 351 copies typeset by hand in metal moveable type, letter by letter.

Twenty autobiographical poems which depict salient experiences occurred in the childhood and youth of the Poet: his birth, the first voyage, his step-mother, his father, his first time at sea, sex, the winter school, shyness, the southern land, …

Pablo Neruda sent these inedited poems to his friend Alberto Tallone, who published them in first edition in 1963. 

Italian and Spanish edition.
Copies 1-80 include a pochoir print by Ugo Nespolo, made expressly for this edition.
Poems were typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.

– PRICE ON REQUEST – STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER – 

This edition, entitled "Moulded Objects. Sheets of Italian paper and their watermarks from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries” by Professor Neil Harris, includes original watermarks produced from 1400 to the present in the major Italian papermaking centres, which were distributed from North to South across the Country. 

The fascinating historical journey traced by Neil Harris, an internationally renowned paper scholar, highlights how widespread knowledge and taste were among those who practiced the art of papermaking, which owes the invention of watermarks to Fabriano.

Edition limited to 45 numbered copies, typeset by hand in movable type, and printed letterpress on Magnani paper.

Pietro Verri (Milan 1728-1797) sheds light on the nature of human passions and the mechanisms of pleasure, anticipating the new theories of unconscious mental processes, which spur men to act in the pursuit of happiness. 

Limited edition of 20 copies which include a graphic work by Giulio Paolini expressly made for this book. Each is individually elaborated with pencil over it, signed and numbered from 1/20 to 20/20. Four additional copies are artist's proofs.

Language: Italian.

Upon request and without additional charge, subscribed copies can be personalised with an inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”) to be printed on the book.

Language: Italian.

The Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Canticle of the Creatures, is a moving hymn to the beauty of Creation in the form of a song of thanksgiving to the Lord. Written in 1225, it is considered the first poem in vernacular Italian.

39 numbered copies printed on light-blu paper, and typeset by hand in movable metal type.

“Praise be to you, my Lord” is repeated throughout the Canticle to thank God with all his creatures, starting from our Brother the Sun who brings light and the day. Even our Sister Bodily Death is included in the praise, because “Blessed are those whom death will find in Your most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm”.

Language: Italian.

The Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Canticle of the Creatures, is a moving hymn to the beauty of Creation in the form of a song of thanksgiving to the Lord. Written in 1225, it is considered the first poem in vernacular Italian.

44 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, and typeset by hand in movable metal type.

“Praise be to you, my Lord” is repeated throughout the Canticle to thank God with all his creatures, starting from our Brother the Sun who brings light and the day. Even our Sister Bodily Death is included in the praise, because “Blessed are those whom death will find in Your most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm”.

Language: Italian.

The Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Canticle of the Creatures, is a moving hymn to the beauty of Creation in the form of a song of thanksgiving to the Lord. Written in 1225, it is considered the first poem in vernacular Italian.

A 4-page booklet typeset by hand in movable metal type. It is contained in a re-sealable clear-plastic sleeve personalized with the Tallone logo. The sleeve also contains a pH neutral passepartout cardboard.

Size: 31x20 cm.

A collection of 61 inedited poems. Preface by the author.

Language: Italian.

Edition limited to 384 copies. Texts were typeset by hand in metal movable type.