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  • Con l’armata dell’Ebro morire oggi - G. Ceronetti

    €100.00

    A poem by Guido Ceronetti dedicated to the Battle on the Ebro River (July 25, 1938), the last offensive effort by the Republican Army. The National Air Force played a decisive role in the counterattack, and by mid-November of that year, it was all over.

    The following historic figures are the protagonists of the poem: Tina Modotti, the celebrated beauty from Friuli, Vittorio Vidali's last partner, who took care of the wounded in Madrid hospitals; Andreu Nin, a Trotskyist communist, tortured and murdered by the Stalinists in Barcelona in May 1937; Camillo Berneri, a renowned Italian anarchist writer, arrested and shot by the Stalinists; and Federica Montsény, Minister of Health in the first Republican wartime government (1936-37), whom Ceronetti met in Paris in 1953.

    Language: Italian.

  • In memoriam di Emanuela - G. Ceronetti

    €100.00

    Poems by Horace, Kavafis, Mallarmé, and Seferis translated into Italian by Guido Ceronetti, and dedicated to his friend Emanuela who loved the works by those Poets.
    The poems are: Horace, “Exegi monumentum aëre perennius” (23 BC); Mallarmé, “Sur les bois oubliés où passe l’hiver sombre” (1877); Kavafis, “Voci” (1904); Seferis, “Giorni del giugno ’41” (1941).

    The collection opens with a poem by Guido Ceronetti, entitled “Storia d’amore del 1812 ritrovata nella memoria”.

    Language: Italian.

    Edition limited to 47 copies. A booklet of 24 pages typeset by hand in metal moveable type.

  • La rivoluzione sconosciuta. Per ricordare il 1789

    €480.00

    Edited by Guido Ceronetti.

    A collection of thoughts, aphorisms, and verses commenting on the ideals which inspired the French Revolution, and the material and occult consequences it triggered, written by Friedrich Hölderlin, Ugo Foscolo, Vittorio Alfieri, Giosuè Carducci, William Blake, Giuseppe Parini, Nostradamus, Georges Bataille, Jacques Cazotte, Stendhal, Edmund Burke, Nicolas de Chamfort, Montesquieu, L.-C. de Saint Martin, Chantal T. L. Massignon, Johann Fichte, H. Heine, Roberto Calasso, H.-F. Amiel, G. Leopardi, André Suarès, J. Starobinski, Isaac Singer, Léon Bloy, Corrado Alvaro, L.-F. Céline, Sade, Charles Baudelaire, François Furet, Guido Piovene, Ernest Renan, Carl Schmitt, J. Joubert, Émile Zola, Napoleone, Chordelos de Laclos, Tao-Te-King.

    Edition limited to 171 copies.

  • IL GINECEO - Mehmet Gayuk

    €180.00

    Language: Italian.

    A collection of 24 poems. Confined women, Islam, and the war in the Near East.

    Guido Ceronetti hides behind the pseudonym of Mehmet Gayuk, a mysterious Turkish poet who lived at the time of Ataturk, which freed women from veils and walls. However, the confinement of the women had not been completely removed, neither from their hearts nor from their bodies.
    And the masculine "we" of the verses incessantly dreams of forbidden bodies, and despairs before inexorable doors:

    In un mortale spasmo, in un calore di fusione

    Ci avvicendammo ai fori fatti nel muro

    In silenzio. Di là era una pioggia di bisbigli

    Il bramito dell’anima che abbrucia

    L’officina di furie – il Gineceo.

    336 copies were printed. Texts were typeset by hand in metal moveable type.

  • 19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 3)

    €720.00

    The masterpieces of 19th-century type design.

    A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century metal movable types.

    Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.

    This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 118 copies typeset by hand in metal 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.


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

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €800.00

    Limited edition of 9 copies typeset by hand in metal 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.

  • ADELCHI - Alessandro Manzoni

    €150.00

    Limited edition of 340 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter. 

    Language: Italian edition.

    The fall of the Lombards defeated by the Franks. Based upon events that actually happened: Italy, always a battlefield for foreign powers vying for dominion over its lands, is subjugated by Charlemagne, who defeats and chased the Lombards away in 774 AD.

    With this work, Manzoni warns that nothing seems to have changed since then: the events of the Risorgimento still see Italians arrayed against Italians, to the advantage of foreign powers who continue to benefit from these internal disputes.



  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €2,000.00

    Limited edition of 2 numbered copies printed on blue paper. This edition was hand-set in metal movable types, letter by letter.
    English edition.

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

  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €1,300.00

    Limited edition of 13 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.
    English edition.

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

  • Significato del diario di bordo di Colombo

    €100.00

    Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.
    Printed letterpress in the fifth centenary year of the discovery of America (1492-1992). 
    270 copies typeset by hand in metal movable type, letter by letter.
    The attractiveness of seas never seen before, the unknown ways of life, and the need to exalt and even exaggerate the qualities of the new lands to impress the King, all of this transforms what could have been an arid logbook into a testimony of exceptional importance.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €400.00

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

    85 numbered copies hand-set, letter by letter, in Caslon type. 

    Language: Italian.