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  • L’Infinito - Giacomo Leopardi

    €480.00

    Limited edition of 9 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    The essay by Davide Rondoni unveils the secrets and meanings of this universal sonnet, which relates the nature of man to the infinite.

  • Manuel des Amphitryons - Grimod de la Reynière

    €480.00
    Limited edition of 200 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
    French edition. 
    «Ouvrage indispensable a tous ceux qui sont jaloux de faire bonne chère, et de la faire faire aux autres».
  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni (1500-1588)

    €460.00

    Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.

  • De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi

    €430.00

    Limited edition of 46 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily with the groundwater from the volcano Etna

    Etching by Walter Valentini, signed and numbered, made expressly for this edition.

    This edition printed in Latin is a tribute to the famous incunabulum printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495, which is considered to be the first modern book.
    Bembo tells about his ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics.

  • Qohélet (o L'Ecclesiaste)

    €400.00

    Limited and numbered edition of 62 copies printed on pure cotton cream-colored Magnani paper made in Pescia, Tuscany.

    Italian edition of the Old Testament's "Ecclesiastes"
    New translation from Hebrew by Guido Ceronetti.

  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €350.00

    Limited edition of 258 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed.
    English edition.

    Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €340.00

    The first modern ‘curriculum vitae’, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness.

  • CONVIVIO - Dante Alighieri

    €320.00

    Original 1965 edition now on sale at a special price, in conjunction with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death (1321-2021).

    Typeset by hand and printed letterpress by Alberto Tallone (1898-1968) in Alpignano, where the Press is still active today. 

    Limited edition of 700 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Visioni della vita rapita – Davide Rondoni

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    First Italian anthology of Davide Rondoni’s poetry. It includes 50 poems, out of which 16 are unedited.

  • Lamine d'oro orfiche

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 8 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.
    The ‘Orphic’ gold tablets are tiny scraps of gold foils engraved with precepts meant as instructions to enter the Afterlife. Those fascinating invocations are one of the first evidence of ancient Greek religion, and exerted a great influence on later Greek culture.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €300.00

    With three unpublished letters by Dino Campana.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    Limited edition of 140 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Sull’indole del piacere e del dolore - P. Verri

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 135 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    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.