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  • Sonnet - Dante Alighieri

    €60.00

    Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.

    Immortal poem about friendship.

    Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, and printed on cotton archival-quality paper expressly made in Dante’s Tuscany.

  • Pensieri sull'arte - Ingres

    €300.00
    Language: Italian.
    Edition limited to 203 numbered copies.
    For the hand-typesetting of the text, 126,000 (126 thousand) types have been used, which make this book an exceptional endeavor in contemporary fine printing.
    Ingres wrote one of the most significant works of Poetics, in the form of a collection of considerations on painting, art, and music.
    Upon request and without additional charge, subscribed copies can be personalized with a printed inscription (i.e. "Copy printed for John Doe”), which will be typeset by hand and printed letterpress on the book.


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  • L’Infinito - Giacomo Leopardi

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 25 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.

  • CANZONIERE - FRANCESCO PETRARCA

    €450.00

    The work of the first great writer in vernacular, the Canzoniere is a cornerstone of Italian literature, and includes 366 poems written and perfected over a lifetime.

    The central theme is Petrarch’s love for Laura, whom he met in Avignon in 1327. This unfulfilled love is reflected in a wide range of moods, which oscillate between the sentimental idealization of his beloved and the painful awareness that this earthly passion hinders his spiritual tension towards God.

    460 copies were printed. This edition was typeset by hand in metal movable types.

  • 30 SONETTI - GIORGIO BAFFO

    €2,200.00

    Collection of licentious and burlesque sonnets, which unfold in an obsessive celebration of the female sex:

    Altri canta le Furie de Bellona,

    Altri le azioni dei Cavalieri Erranti,

    Altri i casi, e i sospiri dei Amanti, 

    Mi voi cantar le glorie della Mona.

    Dove se puoi trovar più bella, e bona

    Materia, che interessi tutti quanti?


    Limited edition of 34 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily. Each copy features an original watercolor by Fulvio Testa.

    Language: Venetian dialect.

  • VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR - P. NERUDA

    €580.00

    It includes an original graphic print by Ugo Nespolo, made expressly for this edition.

    Language: Spanish and Italian.

    Few copies of this book are now on sale in conjunction with the celebrations for the centenary of the first edition (1924-2024).

    This collection of poems gained Neruda international recognition. It was published in Santiago, Chile in 1924, when the Poet was twenty years old. The collection includes some of Neruda's most famous poems, among which Cuerpo de mujer, Te recuerdo como eras, Me gustas cuando callas.

  • corinto - Lorenzo de' Medici, young poet

    €150.00


    Language: Italian.

    183 copies
     typeset by hand in movable metal type, of which:

    .145 printed on laid Magnani paper made in Pescia, Tuscany (150 €);

    .19 printed on Amatruda paper made in Amalfi (280 €);

    .11 printed on Hodomura paper made in Japan (550 €);

    .4 printed on Magnani handmade* in Pescia, Tuscany (sold out);

    .3 printed on Hosho paper handmade* in Japan (sold out);

    .only copy on textured Magnani paper (not for sale).

    (*) Every sheet is individually handmade.

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  • LE COLLINE DEL PIACERE - Cesare Giaccone

    €140.00

    Chef Cesare from Langhe, Piedmont gifts us five of his recipes, which have been served with satisfaction in fifty years of cooking. The autobiographical introduction by chef Cesare is a collection of short stories of life lived in the Langhe.

    An edition limited to 139 numbered copies, typeset by hand in mtal movable types, letter by letter.

    Cesare Giaccone (1947-2024) was considered by the New York Times to be one of the protagonists of Italian haute cuisine.

    This is a 28-page paper-bound signature (cm 25x15) in a separate hard cover.

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  • Supplemento estetico ai Manuali Tipografici

    €0.00

    – PRICE ON REQUEST

    The Supplement is dedicated to the history of hand papermaking through the centuries and the history of 20th-century fine printing, and it includes original paper samples from the 16th century onwards. It is intended to expand and enrich the themes addressed in the previous five volumes of the set of the "Manuali Tipografici".

    A volume in the 4to format (37x23 cm) of 144 pages typeset by hand in 12 pt Tallone type.

  • Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac

    €280.00
    Upon request and without additional charge, the book can be personalised with a printed inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”), to be typeset by hand and printed at the beginning of the book.
    Limited edition of 193 copies typeset by hand and letterpress printed.
    Balzac makes a shrewd and ironic portrait of the newly born bourgeois society which reveals all its ridiculousness and clumsiness in its attempt to be fashionable. In fact, elegance belongs to few.
    Those who climb the rungs of the social ladder have to continually invent new forms of distinction. This resulting cyclical renewal is what we call fashion.



  • La commedia - Dante Alighieri

    €1,300.00

    Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer. This edition was printed by Alberto Tallone in Alpignano in 1967-68.



    Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) printed by Alberto Tallone in 1967-68.

    Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition.

  • Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso

    €2,600.00

    Only copy. It includes an original watercolor. Italian edition.

    Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language. 

    This edition is limited to 33 unique copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.