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.

PRE-ORDER NOW. Copies will be delivered in JULY 2026.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.