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  • 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.

  • 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.



  • 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.

  • the nocturnal train - pablo neruda

    €600.00

    Limited edition of 20 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
    Tri-lingual edition
    (Spanish, Italian, and English).

    On the 13th December 1971 to Pablo Neruda was given the Nobel Prize of Literature.


    Fifty years after the awarding (1971-2021), the choice to print "The Nocturnal Train" (from "Sumario. Libro donde nace la lluvia", Tallone Editore, 1963, first edition) is a way to pay homage to the Poet who, like his friend Alberto Tallone, was an enthusiastic lover of steam locomotives, an archetype of a liberated time, that of poetry and travel, as expression of knowledge and dynamism.

  • lettere d'amore di marianna alcoforado

    €290.00

    Never has a lover expressed her passion, all the stirrings of her ardent heart, so truly and completely. Marianna (born in Beja, Portugal in 1640) wrote her distant lover five immortal letters, in which the cries of love beautifully explode.

    First published in 1669, these Letters quickly became a literary classic.

    Limited edition of 220 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types.

  • cantico delle creature - ST. FRANCIS

    €1,200.00

    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.

    24 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable metal type, which include an etching print by Pietro P. Tarasco.

    “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”.

  • Lamine d'oro orfiche

    €550.00

    Limited edition of copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.
    Language: ancient Greek and Italian.

    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.