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  • ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΗΩΣ - ΑΝΑΞΑΓΟΡΟΥ

    €120.00
    Limited edition of 190 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century types.
    Ancient Greek and Italian edition.
    «No printer is great if it does not print Greek. Without this effort it is impossible to serve Humanism. Because Humanism has two sources: Athens and Florence. Without these two corners of the world, it is not entirely certain that man would be able to get civilized, becoming a being able to oppose the immense power of individuality to mass action […]» Jean Zafiropulo.
    Known for his materialistic theories, the scientist and philosopher Anaxagoras (499-428 a. D.) is convinced that the world consists of an infinity of infinitesimal units that form all things, and that the sun is a burning rock. He taught in Athens for thirty years.
  • Lamine d'oro orfiche - Angelo Tonelli

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 5 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.

    Language: 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.

  • NESSUN LUOGO E' ELEMENTARE - E. De Signoribus

    €100.00

    A collection of short stories and poems (some unpublished) by contemporary poet Eugenio De Signoribus, already winner of the Montale Prize (1989) and the Viareggio Prize (2008).

    The recurrent themes are childhood memories and family life, the figure of the woman and the mother, the fight for rights and freedom, the abuses of power.

    Limited edition of 200 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types. One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words. 
  • BOTO, IL DELFINO ROSA - M. THEÓPHILO

    €130.00

    AMAZONIAN TALE PRINTED IN FIRST EDITION

    Italian edition.

    One of the most beautiful Amazonian myths, embodied by a child whose innocence can save the future of the Forest.

    A tale with a strong ecological message, handed down orally in the Tupí-Guaraní tribes of the Amazon forest.
    Márcia Theóphilo spent her infancy in the Amazon forest, living there with her grandmother. 

    Márcia Theóphilo brings us the essence of Indian culture, which is based on the respect for nature. Today an established poet and anthropologist, she is now a candidate for the Nobel Prize.

    Limited edition of 170 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

  • Hippocratic Oath

    €60.00

    The Code of Medical Ethics is still inspired by the Hippocratic Oath, the first text to establish the ethical standards of the medical profession.

    Hippocrates (V-VI century BC) required his students to swear to respect their teachers, to teach medicine only to those who had sworn the same oath and to do that without reward, to visit the sick and treat them with the aim of healing and never using violence, to not prescribe deadly drugs even when requested, and to not divulge confidential information learned in the practice of their profession.

    Limited edition typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

    The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €2,900.00

    A collection of poems and short writings, sublime and barbaric at the same time.

    The following video, entitled ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν (“I tried to decipher myself”, Heraclitus), is intended as a tribute to Dino Campana, an author particularly dear to the Tallone family:


    A separate folder includes three unpublished letters by Dino Campana addressed to Eleonora Tallone and Sibilla Aleramo.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    An edition limited to 173 copies. Texts were typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €300.00

    A collection of poems and short writings, sublime and barbaric at the same time.

    The following video, entitled ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν (“I tried to decipher myself”, Heraclitus), is intended as a tribute to Dino Campana, an author particularly dear to the Tallone family:

    A separate folder includes three unpublished letters by Dino Campana addressed to Eleonora Tallone and Sibilla Aleramo.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    An edition limited to 173 copies. Texts were typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €680.00

    A collection of poems and short writings, sublime and barbaric at the same time.

    The following video, entitled ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν (“I tried to decipher myself”, Heraclitus), is intended as a tribute to Dino Campana, an author particularly dear to the Tallone family:

    A separate folder includes three unpublished letters by Dino Campana addressed to Eleonora Tallone and Sibilla Aleramo.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 


    An edition limited to 173 numbered copies. Texts were typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Sonnet - Dante Alighieri

    €40.00

    Immortal poem about friendship.

    Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, and printed on cotton archival-quality paper.

    The sonnet is sealed in a clear-plastic sleeve personalized with the Tallone logo. The sleeve also contains a pH neutral passepartout cardboard.



  • TRATTATELLO IN LAUDE DI DANTE - BOCCACCIO

    €200.00

    Original 1969 edition. Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.
    BOOK CONDITION: very good, without signs of wear. This copy comes from the printer’s collection, and it has never left the printer’s premises. 

    The life of Dante, already a legend a few years after his death, narrated by the greatest storyteller of his time, the author of the “Decameron”.

    Limited edition of 600 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Il Cantico dei Cantici

    €220.00

    Limited edition of 122 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Famous love poem from the Bible in the form of a dialogue between a young woman and her lover. 

  • La commedia - Dante Alighieri

    €1,200.00

    Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition, which stands as a unique achievement in contemporary printing.

    Limited edition of 209 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) housed in a handmade box.

    Italian edition.