JACA BOOK FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2021 by Jaca Book

FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2021

2018 Forthcoming

Contents SYMBOLS IN HISTORY OF MAN

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

MUSIC MUSIC IN IN THE THE WORLD WORLD OFOF TRAVELS TRAVELS

NON FICTION BOOKS

Natale Spineto

Forthcoming 3 Modern and contemporay art

Italian and European art

ISslamic art

Byzantine, Eastern Mediterranean and African Art

Art of the Far East

Momunenta Vaticana Selecta

Symbols and Myths

Art and religions

Italy from above

HistoriCal Hystorical atlas Atlas

Possible futures. Art scenarios and AI

Massimo Borghesi - Works

Religious History

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Religious Art

The Dictionaries

Mircea Eliade’s dictionaries

Andrea Riccardi - Works

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International Current Affairs

Music 60 In Dialogue with Carlo Sini

Philosophy 62 Carlo Sini - Works

Raimon Panikkar – Works

Julien Ries – Works

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

ABOUT JACA BOOK Founded in 1965, Jaca Book is today one of the leading indipendent italian publishers in the fields of art and human sciences, featuring illustrated books, non-fiction and religious books, innovative children’s books, academic works, foreign fiction and international poetry. Based in Milan, Jaca Book publishes one hundred books a year and today its catalog consists of more than 5,000 titles. Jaca Book has been participating in the Frankfurt Bookfair and London Bookfair every year for more than fifty years, as international co-editions are a major focus of the company. Our illustrated projects, coedited with the major publishing houses around the world, mainly concern the history of art, architecture, archeology and music. Our name and our logo derive from and represent the leaves and the fruit of the Breadfruit tree, in Brazilian language: Jaca.

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A project A project of Franco of Franco Alberto Alberto Gallo Gallo and and VeraVera Minazzi Minazzi A cura di Franco Alberto Gallo e Donatella Restani

ATLANTE DELLA MUSICA NEL MONDO DEI VIAGGI

BINDING hardbound, thread-sewn, board covered with Imitlin, square spine, headbands one-colour lettering on the spine, white endpapers SIGNS ca. 240.000 The extensive bibliography about travels in the Ancient Times and in the Middle Ages has hardly focused on the musical experiences in the so called “unknown lands”. Not even the studies about the travel literature have focused on the topic in deep. This volume collects an extraordinary set of synthetic essays, written in a narrative style, which attest the encounter with music of peoples from Mediterranean to Africa, from the steppes to Asia. It’s been a while that the University of Bologna-Ravenna, under the direction of the renowned musicologist F. Alberto Gallo, inquires into the encounter between travellers and the soundscapes of the other worlds. This Atlas thus focuses on the experience of meeting the other, through the special and privileged lens of music. The traveller acts as an anthropologist: he has musical experiences, in distant lands, mostly as listener, and he discovers the peculiarities and the place of music in other societies. On the occasions of embassies, pilgrimages, merchant travels, religious and profane festivities, the traveller can grasp sounds and rhythms, even if he doesn’t know the local idioms: music spreads strongly without the need of an aware cultural mediation. Music, like food, smells and architectures, connoted the anthropic landscapes which travellers met. The volume opens with the Greek-Roman world, both with the mythical or legendary travels, and with the real ones. The chronological period here covered spans from to the Late Antiquity up to the end of the XV century. The travels are organized chronologically and grouped by geographical areas. Following the Historical Atlas of Music in the Middle Ages (2011), a project of Vera Minazzi with the contribution of F. Alberto Gallo, also for this volume many among the most prominent scholars of medieval musicology have been involved, along with anthropologists, historians, art historians, philosophy and literatures researchers. The work is fascinating for its enjoyable style of writing combined with a rigorously scientiﬁc structure. The chapters are organized on an interpretative scheme: this work is an innovative and reference contribute for the Antiquity and the Middle Ages musicological studies. Even the artistic and cultural exchanges or “borrowings” are highlighted. The Atlas consists of almost ﬁfty short chapters, enriched by iconography and cartography, mostly unpublished and strictly related to the texts.

FRANCO ALBERTO GALLO An internationally renowned musicologist and eminent scholar of medieval music, he was director of the Department of Musicology at the University of Bologna. Pioneer of the discipline, with particular regard to the Middle Ages, is a distinguished scholar, unanimously acknowledged and appreciated in both Europe and the United States. He has been President of the Italian Society of Musicology, vice president of the International Musicology Society, Harvard University Fellow, visiting professor at various universities and research centers such as the Center d’Études Superiors de la Renaissance (CESR) de Tours, the University of Tokyo, the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and the Fundaciò “La Caixa” in Barcelona.

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THE SAGRADA FAMILIA 2020

ARTS OF MODERNITY

Maria Antonietta Crippa, Jordi Faulí, photos by Pepe Navarro

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Cesare de Seta

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HARDCOVER FORMAT cms. 24x32 PAGES 240 colour pages SIGNS ca. 225.000

DANIEL GIRALT-MIRACLE JORDI FAULÍ

LA SAGRADA FAMILIA 2020

THE FIRST VOLUME THAT TESTIFIES TO THE ADVANCED STATE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SAGRADA FAMILIA AFTER THE CELEBRATION OF POPE BENEDICT XVI IN 2010

Foto di Pepe Navarro

Pepe Navarro is an extraordinary photographer who has performed spectacular reportages in very different places on the planet, but architecture remains his constant love. Like no other, Navarro has climbed the pinnacles with his camera and examined the vaults of Antoni Gaudí’s church-mountain, and with him we experience the vertigo of this place that seems to defy the laws of gravity. The work of the brilliant Catalan architect seemed abandoned to oblivion for decades after the end of the Second World War, showing only two partially advanced sections. The question was: to leave the project in the state in which the author had left it, or to intervene without Gaudí but using his directives and his calculations? The decision to continue according to the detailed drawings and studies left by Gaudí was the subject of a dramatic debate in Catalonia, until the worldwide appeal that the Sagrada Familia has exercised in the most recent decades convinced the government and the Church of Catalonia to continue the works. Jaca Book has published several volumes on the cathedral, following the events involving the Sagrada Familia over the past forty years.

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Classic and Romantic confronted each other in the course of the century of the bourgeoisie. The Romanticism of Schinkel, builder of Berlin, and the paintings of Friedrich, which so fascinated and still fascinate the public even today. Eminent historian but also skilled storyteller, Cesare de Seta possesses a wealth of knowledge such as to be able to juggle with finesse between arts and styles that have marked the transition to the modern age. Only a great historian of European architecture and art could conceive this exciting journey that begins at the end of the ancien régime, around the middle of the eighteenth century, and reaches the point of understanding the great revolutionary movement in the way of “seeing” the art that was Impressionism. Even the construction of the Eiffel Tower, built between 1887 and 1889, immediately became a universal symbol of modernity. The author follows all the arts, up to the birth of photography. Being also a skilled storyteller, de Seta writes a work of enjoyable writing and easy reading, well accompanied by ready-to-use notes. Thus a story that begins with David, Blake and Goya, and reaches Manet and Monet, who draw on the great English landscape painting of Gainsborough and others.

JORDI FAULÍ, architect and construction manager of the Sagrada Familia, in charge of completing the grandiose project by Antoni Gaudì, at least in its architectural part, by 2026, the year of celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Spanish master.

CESARE DE SETA Professor emeritus of history of architecture at the Federico II University of Naples, he has taught in London, Zurich and at Columbia University in New York. He was Directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he taught periodically, and directed the “Atlas de la ville européenne, Maison des sciences de l’homme” project. In 1994 he was appointed Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. Curator of encyclopedic works and numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, he is also the author of novels.

MARIA ANTONIETTA CRIPPA Architect, professor of the Milan Polytechnic, where she taught History of Architecture and Restoration.

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VAN EYCK

MANET

Liana Castelfranchi

Fred Licht

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HARDCOVER FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 PAGES 212 colour pages SIGNS ca. 146.500

SOFTCOVER FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 PAGES 168 colour pages SIGNS ca. 124.000

A fascinating and dense monograph dedicated to the forefather of Flemish painting, which brilliantly introduces the personality of this innovative and complex genius. In Van Eyck’s art, different and simultaneous stylistic expressions and two fundamental languages coexist: maximum realistic concreteness and delicate and lyrical animation. Liana Castelfranchi analyzes the figure of the famous and problematic painter with great effectiveness, as only seventeen works are attributable to him with certainty and they all belong to his last period (from 1432 to 1439). In the path traced by the author, the greatness of Jan van Eyck emerges from the complexity. A connoisseur of fabrics like a weaver, of architecture like a master builder, he was an artist who worked under the impulse of brilliant experimental solutions. Painting itself opened up with him to new explorations: from the landscape to the still life, from the new painting of devotion to the portrait. He was also a discoverer in the search for means, perfecting the oil painting technique, inaugurating the architectural perspective and trompe-l’oeil. The interior and landscape compositions, the human figure felt as part of the landscape, are all sensational novelties up to the great landscape and interior painting of the Dutch seventeenth century.

LIANA CASTELFRANCHI taught History of Medieval Art at the University of Verona and at the University of Milan. She mainly dedicated his studies to the field of painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with particular attention to the phenomena of artistic circulation and to the relationships between Italian and French art. For Jaca Book, she was curator of the “History of European Art” collection and author of numerous publications: Italy and Flanders in 15th century painting (1983), Angelic and Humanism (1989), Minor arts in the Middle Ages ( 1994), Van Eyck (1998), Ottonian art around the year 1000 (2002), The year one thousand. Art in Europe from 950 to 1050 (2018), Medieval art in Europe (2019).

This volume represents the work that gives Manet his place in the history of art. A great artist who has suffered the hostility of the public and critics, but not of the artists who considered him a master, and who still remains unsettling because the present springs from that world that Manet unveiled. Known for his very important work on Goya, the revolutionary artist at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Fred Licht focuses here on Manet, the most complex artist of the entire nineteenth century. For Licht "perhaps the greatest of the nineteenth-century artists who have reached ever greater power and depth of expression through their tireless effort to grasp the authentic meaning of contemporary life, putting the present in open conflict with the ideals of the past". Manet is a bourgeois but he is not an impressionist, despite having helped and defended the movement of which, however, he could not share the confident serenity and moral neutrality that made, and still does, impressionism the ideal style of a bourgeoisie that tries to avoid by all means the contradictions, traps and tragedies of modern existence. Manet did not seek scandal but revealed the reality of his class; thus Breakfast on the grass, Olympia and other paintings were works that aroused great stir. FRED LICHT was a distinguished art historian, recognized as an expert on Francisco de Goya, museum curator and lecturer in US universities, from Princeton to the University of Florida and Boston. His family, who fled Germany shortly before the “Crystal Night” which marked the eruption of Nazi ideology, wandered between Holland, France and Switzerland before moving to the United States. He obtained US nationality in 1946; in 1953 he became a professor of art history at Princeton, but he also stayed for a long time in Italy, in Venice in particular, where he came into contact with the famous collector Peggy Guggenheim. On the front line with his wife in 1966 to save Florence’s artistic heritage from the tragic flooding of the Arno, he returned to the United States in the early 1970s due to the political climate marred by the first Red Brigades attacks. He left a deep mark on the history of art with a rich production of studies and publications.

Forthcoming BOTTICELLI paintings from the divine comedy

Drawings by Sandro Botticelli. Texts by Quirino Principe

Forthcoming HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE MIDDLE AGES Culture and society Edited by Roberto Barbieri

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HARDCOVER FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 PAGES 308 SIGNS ca. 417.000

Botticelli’s little-known masterpiece, Paintings from the Divine Comedy presents the drawings realized with incomparable skill by the painter to illustrate Dante’s work. The comment is entrusted to the contemporary master Quirino Principe. Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ‘Medici, second cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent, commissioned to Botticelli the illustration on parchment of Dante’s Divine Comedy: a sheet for each canto of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, in 47x32.5 format cm. The work, although very advanced in the drawings, was not completed with color. Several sheets have unfortunately been lost. Seven of the survivors are kept in the Vatican Apostolic Library, while the majority are located in Berlin. A true masterpiece by Botticelli, of which we are publishing a selection of the most complete and best preserved sheets. The selection is accompanied by an exceptional comment by Quirino Principe, who for some years has entertained an assiduous audience in the very successful Lectura Dantis, the complete reading and commentary of the Divine Comedy. Two dramatizations in comparison: the graphic one by Sandro Botticelli and the written one by Quirino Principe.

In the wake of the Augustinian message of “The city of God”, the Middle Ages are the beginning of a new era. One civilization dies, the apparently eternal and immutable one of the Roman Empire, and another is born on the foundations of Christianity. This illustrated historical atlas develops the essential features of the production and transmission of medieval knowledge and its disciplines, crossing them with cultural and social concepts, with the different moments and styles of the history of art and religious life. Both in cartography and in texts, ample space is given to the main stages of socio-political history and the result is a synthetic fresco that guides us to the knowledge of the medieval West from the end of the fourth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century, enriched by a extensive photographic documentation of places, architecture and works of art. We come across a great culture, in some great characters and in fundamental moments in the history of universal knowledge, in which Christianity, with its own institutions and expressions, offers a basic impulse and guarantees the balance of powers for the benefit of the freedom of city and people. This historical Atlas, with the contribution of internationally renowned scholars, is proposed as a synthetic tool useful for the knowledge of the European Middle Ages.

QUIRINO PRINCIPE graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua. He teaches Musical Dramaturgy, Librettology, Metrics and Poetic Stylistics at the Academy for the Italian Opera in Verona. One of the most authoritative musicologists, he is also a translator from German, French and English; in 1991 he received the «Ervino Pocar» Award. He is the editor of the Italian edition of The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. He is the author of theatrical texts: all published and performed, in which he often appears as an actor or narrator.

ROBERTO BARBIERI was a writer, teacher, journalist and politician, for years a collaborator of the Sturzo Institute. A great scholar of the Christian Middle Ages, he dedicated important works of dissemination to that historical period.

Forthcoming

Forthcoming THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST IN ART

François Boespflug, Emanuela Fogliadini

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21x27 • PAGES 208 colour pages SIGNS ca. 280.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN French

Although the Resurrection has not been witnessed by the human eye, it has been evoked and celebrated by Christian art from the first centuries to the present day. The book presents a selection of 50 works of different geographical origins, formats and workmanship, the oldest of which dates from 400 AD and the most recent a few years ago. Reproduced in large format, they are commented on by two recognized international experts in light of their exegetical significance, for the history of art and for theology. On all of them a fertile and eloquent tension emerges between the dominant tendency in Western art to represent the Resurrection of Christ as a triumphal exit from burial, quickly followed by the ascent to heaven, and the eastern one in which a completely different reading prevails, which highlights Christ’s descent into hell and its saving effect for the souls of the departed, the Righteous of the Old Covenant, starting with Adam and Eve.

Technical features HARDCOVER FORMAT cms. 24x30 PAGES 240 colour pages SIGNS ca. 292.000

IL NATALE NELL’ARTE

AN UNPRECEDENTED APPROACH TO THE THEME OF THE NATIVITY AND THE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS THAT ART HAS GIVEN OVER THE CENTURIES. FROM GIOTTO TO THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF CHARTRES, FROM FILIPPO LIPPI TO GEORGES DE LA TOUR, UP TO ARCABAS: THE ARTISTIC EFFORT IN REPRESENTING THE SYMBOLIC EVENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH The birth of Jesus, mysteriously conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of a young virgin woman named Mary, is the cornerstone of the Good News and of all Christian doctrine on the Word of God made man. An inexplicable event rationally but a source of great hopes, the Nativity has been the object, over the centuries, of contemplation and amazement. Celebrated and represented in art from the beginnings of Christianity to the present day, it has shone in all ages and on all continents reached by the spread of the Gospel. This book presents a selection of fifty works of art. The oldest Nativity dates back to the 4th century and the most recent is from 2018. Each one is reproduced in full page, enriched by a descriptive comment, which highlights the historical context and the literary, theological and artistic sources of inspiration and interpretation. FRANÇOIS BOESPFLUG theologian, historian of art and religions, is professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg. EMANUELA FOGLIADINI theologian and historian of Christianity, she is a professor of the History of Theology of the Christian East at the Theological Faculty of Milan and Coordinator of the Higher Institute of Religious Studies “Beato Paolo VI”.

FRANÇOIS BŒSPFLUG EMANUELA FOGLIADINI

CHRISTMAS IN ART

François Boespflug, Emanuela Fogliadini HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x30 • Signes ca.280.000 • PAGES 240 colour pages

The birth of Jesus, mysteriously conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of a young virgin woman named Mary, is the cornerstone of the Good News and of all Christian doctrine on the Word of God made man. An inexplicable event rationally but a source of great hopes, the Nativity has been the object, over the centuries, of contemplation and amazement. Celebrated and represented in art from the beginnings of Christianity to the present day, it has shone in all ages and on all continents reached by the spread of the Gospel. This book presents a selection of fifty works of art. The oldest Nativity dates back to the 4th century and the most recent is from 2018. Each one is reproduced in full page, enriched by a descriptive comment, which highlights the historical context and the literary, theological and artistic sources of inspiration and interpretation.

EASTER DAY IN ART. Meetings of the Risen One François Boespflug HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x30 • PAGES 180 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 200.000 What Happened on Easter Day? A careful study of the stories of the four Gospels reveals five main phases, from sunrise to sunset, which are actually five encounters that the author recounts through a selection of works of art. The book does not analyze the resurrection of Christ with the traditional images of the descent into hell or the exit from the tomb, but, through about sixty works of art, it evokes the experience of those who passed from deep sadness to the death of Christ to the joy of the encounter with the Risen One.

FRANÇOIS BOESPFLUG, theologian, art historian and religious historian, is an emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg. He was a literary editor for the Éditions du Cerf, owner of the Chaire du Louvre in 2010 and of the Benedict XVI Chair in Regensburg in 2013. His numerous publications deal with the history of religions and the representation of the divine. EMANUELA FOGLIADINI, a theologian and historian of Christianity, she is a scholar in the history of theology of the Christian East at the Theological Faculty of Milan and Coordinator of the dell’Istituto Superiore di Studi religiosi «Beato Paolo VI».

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LIGHT IN ART

ART AND TIME

Edited by Julien Ries

Franco Rella

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SOFTCOVER FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 PAGES 256 colour pages SIGNS ca. 263.000

SOFTCOVER FORMAT cms. 18x23 PAGES 300 colour pages SIGNS ca. 493.000

History of art, religions, anthropology, philosophy and science intersect around the theme of light. The volume, thanks to the contributions of many international authors, analyzes and compares fundamental cultural and artistic experiences in the history of humanity: prehistory, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the ancient world, the Middle Ages and the modern world. According to Mircea Eliade, the contemplation of the celestial vault and its luminosity mobilized the conscience of the first men, provoking the sense of transcendence. The architecture and art from ancient China to the Middle East, from the classical world to the Middle Ages and the contemporary world have shown a constant commitment to the search for light, which in some periods becomes a central and essential research. Every religion and culture has a symbolism of light. If every symbol, as Julien Ries recalls, is the sign that allows the passage from the visible to the invisible, the symbolism of light implies in particular the hermeneutics of the invisible. Light in art, in fact, connects man with both the infinite and the deepest moods.

The book analyzes with particular care the problematic and paradoxical relationship of art with time. A journey through the art of the modern in its tensions and its revelations. The works of art allow us to look deeply into the problems of our time and into our conscience, a wide iconographic apparatus guides us in this exploration of the contemporary. Art has always been at the center of Franco Rella’s critical-aesthetic reflection, articulated in a series of works that have also found space in the catalogs of the National Gallery in Rome, the Orsay Museum in Paris, the MART in Rovereto, the PAC in Milan and in numerous other public and private institutions. The essays that make up the chapters of this book deal above all with the problematic and paradoxical relationship of art with time. The work of art seems immune from time, eternal and always equal to itself, and yet it is full of time: its time and what it sets in motion in its relationship with other works, with other eras, with other sensitivity. The place where this plurality of times intertwine is the museum, but also the images that populate the streets of modern metropolitan cities, as Proust, Valéry and surrealism had seen, and as we see in Street art, or in the work of Kentridge.

JULIEN RIES was the most important historian of religions. He taught for over fourty years at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he founded the Centre d’Histoire des Religions. In 2008 he donated his library and his private archive to the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, thus founding the “Julien Ries” Archive for Symbolic Anthropology, directed by Silvano Petrosino. In February 2012 has been appointed cardinal by the Pope Benedict xvi.

FRANCO RELLA was first a member and then coordinator (1989-1996) of the Scientific Committee of the MART, Museum of Modern Art of Trento and Rovereto. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bevilacqua-La Masa Foundation in Venice. More recently he collaborated with the Modern Art Gallery of Rome and with the Department of Architecture of the University of Rome 3. He also collaborates with the newspapers “l’Unità” and “La Repubblica”.

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Figini & Pollini. Asilo Olivetti a Ivrea

FIGINI AND POLLINI

SARA PROTASONI

olivetti kindergarten in ivrea Sara Protasoni

Figini & Pollini

SOFTCOVER • FORMAT cms. 18x23 • PAGES 168 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 130.000 The volume explores an unprecedented aspect of Figini and Pollini’s work: the continuous search for a relationship, both physical and symbolic, between nature and architecture. Leading exponents of Italian Rationalism, engaged in the field of design at different scales (the object, the building, the city and the territory), Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini formed the most lasting and productive partnership of that historical phase that saw Italian architecture assert itself in the international debate between the Thirties (with Gruppo 7 and the Miar) and the second postwar period. The collaboration with Adriano Olivetti, which began in the 1930s, marked one of the most significant periods of this experience. In the settlement that Adriano Olivetti wanted in Ivrea around the idea of a city-factory inspired by the principles of the Community Movement, Figini and Pollini created various works. Among these, the kindergarten constitutes a fundamental step in the research on the relationship between nature and architecture. The building, an elementary volume made entirely of stone, is composed by an articulated system of patios and arcades that creates a system of relationships between the interior and the surrounding landscape, modeled with great sensitivity for the characteristics of the original site.

Asilo Olivetti a Ivrea

SARA PROTASONI is a landscape architect and she teaches Landscape Architecture at the School of Urban Architecture and Construction Engineering at the Milan Polytechnic. She deals with the architecture of open spaces and the landscape, accompanying research and theoretical reflection to the practice of the project. Her writings have been published in several architectural books and magazines.

VICO MAGISTRETTI. THE RED HOUSES IN FRAMURA

Andrea Savio

VICO MAGISTRETTI

Andrea Savio

CASE ROSSE A FRAMURA PAESAGGIO CON ARCHITETTURE

SOFTCOVER • FORMAT cms. 18x23 • PAGES 168 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 99.700 Framura does not exist. The town is made up of a set of ancient villages of medieval origin on the border with the Cinque Terre. The urban transformations that have changed the face of Liguria since the 1950s have spared it and the houses, the streets, the locals, the "crêuze de mä", still retain the characteristics of a tradition that has often been lost elsewhere. is lost. In the sixties, the Red Houses were built in Framura, two groups of houses in a unique position, in an undeveloped stretch of coast, to the point of being mentioned in the Pilot Book of Liguria as a reference for navigation together with a tower from the Carolingian era. They were created by the architect Vico Magistretti, one of the most famous Italian designers active from the immediate post-war period up to the date of his death in 2006, demonstrating, like few others, a coherence and a design quality that does not show any failure in the transition between architectural design and industrial design. ANDREA SAVIO carries out professional activities in the field of civil and industrial design, urban planning and interior architecture. Professor of Analysis of Urban Morphology at the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic, he is engaged in study and research activities on the themes of modern architecture and the city.

Forthcoming ART AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Edited by Alice Barale

Contributions of ALICE BARALE, MARIO KLINGEMANN, MICHAEL CASTELLE, MARIAN MAZZONE, CATERINA MORUZZI, OBVIOUS, ANNA RIDLER, GEORGIA WARD-DYER

Technical features HARDCOVER FORMAT cms. 18,5x23,5 PAGES 256 colour pages SIGNS ca. 450.000

OCTOBER 25, 2018 FIRST WORK REALIZED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOLD AT CHRISTIE’S: EDMOND DE BELAMY, FROM LA FAMILLE DE BELAMY. 432,000 POUNDS, 45 TIMES BEYOND THE ESTIMATE! MARZO 2019, SOTHEBY’S ALSO AUCTIONED AN AI-ART WORK BY PIONIEER MARIO KLINGEMANN IS A NEW KIND OF ART BORN? At the end of 2018 an artwork created by the Artificial Intelligence of the Obvious Group was sold at Christie’s auction. The resulting surprise, dismay and misinformation in the press have revealed how complex the idea of artificial intelligence is for the public and the art world. The work that makes use of artificial intelligence raises a multifaceted debate of enormous interest on the validity of the machine’s creativity, on the identity of the true artist and on the quality of the aesthetic results. Philosophers, computer scientists, art historians, scholars and artists confronted with basic questions: what is creativity? And the art? Who is the craftsman and who is the spectator? Can machines be creative or is creativity just a human characteristic? Can the generative process of an artificial intelligence system be qualified as creative and original? How do we judge the works of art created with the mediation of the AI? Can we call algorithms that discriminate among millions of “works” aesthetic? ALICE BARALE is a research fellow in Aesthetics at the University of Florence. She has dealt extensively with Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, to whom she has dedicated a monograph (The melancholy of the image, Pisa 2009) and several essays. He edited a new Italian edition and translation of the Origin of the German Baroque drama by Walter Benjamin (2018) and, for Jaca Book, a monograph on AI art (Art and artificial intelligence. Be my GAN, 2020).

Modern & contemporary art - Great masters

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CHAGALL la scena umana

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CHAGALL. THE HUMAN SCENE

PICASSO ON PEACE AND WAR

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 • PAGES 240 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 210.000

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21x27 • PAGES 160 colour pages SIGNS ca. 100.000

“Chagall came from the marvelous world of the East that had always refused the use of images; still, he appropriated the theme so far as to make of it a meditation on painting: Chagall’s features are openly presented in the painter’s self-portraits, faces are concealed inside the very heart of a picture. The artist, to whom contemporary critics denied any theoretical scope, realized he was also a philosopher”. That is the core of the first part of the volume. The second part reveals that he was also a reader of history. That is Sylvie Forestier’s masterful interpretation of the triptych Resistance, Resurrection, Liberation (1937-1952). Chagall transformed an old painting, Revolution, into a triptych, on which he worked for fifteen years. He completed it (Liberation) in Paris after World War II. It was in America that Chagall found the theatrical stage, and the third part of this volume is devoted to Chagall’s relationship with the theatre.

Drawing the war, explaining peace: the anatomy of a masterpiece, Guernica, the journey of a painting that has changed the history of art, the paths of an artist and a philosopher and their commitment for peace. Peace is the highest form of understanding, reminds us the philosopher Carlo Sini in his contribution. Peace is not a nostalgia for an unattainable age, but a daily occasion, an exercise of doing, a method. It is not something beyond, but it is a practice and a journey that proceeds in the midst of violence and catastrophes. Peace is the understanding of tragedy, a driving force: we must be able to look for peace facing a tragedy, because those who can not be at peace, have no peace to give.

Sylvie Forestier

SYLVIE FORESTIER

Modern & contemporary art - Great masters

CHAGALL. a journey through the bible Sylvie Forestier, Nathalie Hazan-Brunet, Evgenia Kuzmina

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 240 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 130.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, Spanish, Polish, Russian A work that intersects the great Russian philosophy of the twentieth century, with the features of Greek art, Russian icons and Western painting, offering scholars and readers a new reading of Chagall's message. An extraordinary book that discovers twenty-two unpublished gouaches among the sixty-two preparatory studies done by Marc Chagall for the graphic Bible of the publisher Ambroise Vollard (1930-1931). SYLVIE FORESTIER, a highly regarded French art historian, was Curator at the Château de Compiègne Museum and Chief Curator at the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris, appointed Director of the Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice, in charge of the Musée National Picasso at Vallauris and of the Musée National Fernand Léger at Biot.

Pablo Picasso, Carlo Sini

CARLO SINI For thirty years he has taught theoretical Philosophy at the University of Milan. He is an academician of the Lincei.

MALEVICH. THE LAST ICON Massimo Carboni

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The book offers an analysis of the relationship between Kazimir Malevich - the artist who more than any other has faced the problem of the vision of the invisible - and the aesthetic-philosophical dimension of the icon. After having retraced the theological and spiritual foundations, the author examines the work of the founder of Suprematism starting from the famous Black Square - one of the myths and institutive rites of modern-contemporary art - and of this real last icon. In the work of Malevich the artistic and theological-philosophical problem of the icon takes on new life. This means that in reality the avant-gardes do not operate a tabula rasa of the previous artistic-philosophical culture, but that the intertwining between belonging and modification also comes to life in those cases in which the radical zeroing and the most innovative reworking is more evident. MASSIMO CARBONI is a professor of Aesthetics and author of numerous works

BRAQUE. ATELIERS CHAGALL. STAINED GLASS WINDOWS

Jean Leymarie

Heinrich W. Pfeiffer

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When Georges Braque immersed himself in the Ateliers series in the 1940s and 1950s, he had nothing left to experiment with. Just at the moment when others give in to their deserved glory and reproduce, Braque continues to search and question: “I made a very great discovery - I don’t believe in anything anymore. Objects do not exist for me, there is only a symphonic relationship between them and between me and myself. When we come to this harmony, everything becomes possible and eternal. And this is true poetry». He goes so far as to write in his notebook: “Let’s forget things and consider only the relationships “. We are no longer in the field of metaphor, but in the one of metamorphosis. Everything is now Atelier, a visionary laboratory in which the entire universe is summarized and in endless escape.

For almost fifty years, Father Heinrich Pfeiffer has investigated on a iconographic, theological and iconological side the whole corpus of sistine frescoes that narrate the themes of biblical history. An investigation that reveals the true brilliance of Michelangelo and his challenge to seduce men by leading them where humanity and divinity are identified. HEINRICH W. PFEIFFER Director of the Higher Course for the Cultural Heritage of the Church and member of the Pontifical Commission.

JEAN LEYMARIE (1919-2006) was curator at the Museum of Grenoble, director of the National Museum of Modern Art and of the French Academy in Rome

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THE ORNAMENTAL. a philosophical journey between art and decoration Massimo Carboni

IL COLORE NELL’ARTE

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BETWEEN POP AND MINIMAL ART Giuseppe Panza

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An in-depth philosophical reflection on Ornament. In this book, the author follows a double interpretative path: the theoretical-philosophical level, in fact, intersects and dialogues with the historical-critical context. The perspective that leads from Kant to Husserl and then to the debate on the concept of Kunstwollen (‘artistic will’) that sees Riegl, Panofsky and Sedlmayr as protagonists, meets on its path the perspective that elects among its exemplifying moments: Islamic art, Matisse, the Vienna of Klimt and Loos. During this journey, other great authors of twentieth-century European culture meet, from Simmel to Valéry, from Bloch to Lévi-Strauss, from Hartmann to Focillon, just to name a few.

An authentic mentor of the contemporary world, Giuseppe Panza approached American and European painting of the second postwar early on, with original insights and personal relationships with the artists, building a fundamental and unconventional collection to understand the artistic evolution of that period. The collection, focused on American art, can be visited inside what was once his home, Villa Panza in Varese. After graduating in law in 1954, Giuseppe made a trip to the United States that would particularly influence his aesthetic imagination and stimulate him to give life to his art collection. After his initial interest in informal art and Pop Art, in the sixties and seventies, he focused on minimalist, conceptual and environmental art.

MASSIMO CARBONI Professor of Aesthetics. Author of numerous works with Jaca Book.

GIUSEPPE PANZA was one of the greatest Italian contemporary art collectors with a collection of over two thousand five hundred works, created between 1955 and 2010.

FOUR STORIES OF LOVE AND PHOTOGRAPHY

COLOR IN ART

Antonella Russo

edited by Tania Velmans

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 • PAGES 260 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 447.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French An innovative work that explores the history of art from the unprecedented perspective of color and its symbolic role in the various civilizations and in the different artistic seasons. This work is therefore born by taking into consideration some extra-European artistic worlds and some European and Western artistic seasons, asking different authors to be bridges with these worlds and these seasons, to illustrate the place of color in the art of that world or that season. No encyclopedic claims or panoramic completeness, only a glance capable of seeing in distant seasons and worlds. Barale Bargna Carboni Cassanelli Curatola Kontler Lightbown Velmans Vettese Zanchetti

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TANIA VELMANS Tania Velmans was a pupil of André Grabar, is a leading scholar of Byzantine wall paintings. She is Director of Research at the CNRS of Paris and in charge of the seminar program at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), correspondent of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and author of many works on the art and the culture of the Byzantine world.

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The division by periods and by styles is peculiar to European and Western art. The rhythm of the centuries quite corresponds to changes in the artistic period, even if, since the nineteenth century, styles and “isms” multiply in an exponential acceleration that leads to contemporaneity. An unrepeatable panel of authors: the major art historians of various countries have been invited to write on single historical periods, heart of their respective studies.

Stories of Love and Photography identifies some examples of love photography produced in the twentieth century, and examines the consequences of the photographic act conceived as an image of falling in love with the Other and with the world. The volume opens with a text dedicated to surrealist photography and the pioneering illustrated books by André Breton Nadja (1928) and L’Amour fou (1935), continuing with the “apostle” of photography W. Eugene Smith and his two essays Country Doctor (1948) and Nurse Midwife (1951). This is followed by the analysis of the famous portrait Gandhi and the spinning wheel (1946) by Margaret Bourke White, risen as a universal manifesto of solidarity and unconditional love. The volume ends with a reflection on family portraits as images that initiate us into the literacy of love. ANTONELLA RUSSO historian and theorist of photography, has taught History of Photography at the University of Lecce and at the University of the Image in Milan.

WATERS OF AMERICA Daria Addabbo, Alessandro Portelli

MODERN ART

RONALD LIGTHBOWN on the15th century PHILIP COTTRELL on the 16th century THOMAS DA COSTA KAUFMANN on the 17th century PASCAL TORRES on the 18th century

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JÖRG GARMS on the architecture of 18th century RAMÓN & RODRIGO GUTIÉRREZ VIÑUALES on the colonial art of Latin America PIERRE VAISSE on the 19th century ENRICO CRISPOLTI on the 20th century

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x30 • PAGES 200 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 66.000 Entire American states risk being uninhabitable deserts in the future due to pushed anthropization and unbridled urbanization. The Earth is losing its most precious asset: water. Daria Addabbo’s photographs, taken mainly in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, are able to bring the American experience of the climate crisis to an emotional dimension, experiencing changes that belong to geological eras over a lifetime. The images are accompanied by the text by Alessandro Portelli: the water flows effortlessly, free from barriers, a metaphor for equality that derives from social mobility. Instead, the water, in these areas and beyond, is harnessed in aqueducts, barriers and dams, a full expression of the domination of the economy over nature. DARIA ADDABBO a photojournalist, publishes on famous Italian newspapers and magazines. ALESSANDRO PORTELLI taught Anglo-American Literature at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

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GAUDÍ. IDEAS FOR ARCHITECTURE Writings and thoughts collected by his students

MATISSE. VENCE. the chapel of the rosary

edited by Isidre Puig Boada

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HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 18x24 • PAGES 367 colour pages The great Catalan architect of the Sagrada Familia recounted in his words, collected by the young students who attended his lessons. The book is enriched with plans, sketches and projects by Antoni Gaudì, with the addition of an important color photographic insert that shows the magnificence of his masterpieces. Completely absorbed in his project, Gaudí left no theoretical or autobiographical texts, but luckily some of his students meticulously wrote down his thoughts, bestowed by the teacher on those who followed his lessons. In this book we therefore find the ideas, thoughts and theories of the great architect as if he himself were talking to us, with that immediacy that only dialogue between teachers and learner can guarantee. ISIDRE PUIG BOADA Born in Barcelona, he became an architect in 1914. He came into contact with Gaudí, who at the time was already involved in the undertaking of the Sagrada Familia, and together with other colleagues he became his most faithful pupil.

Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de Séligny

The Chapel of the Rosary in the convent of the Dominican nuns in Vence, in the southern of France, is an “all-round” masterpiece of a great master of the XX century: Henry Matisse. After decades of extraordinary painting this was for Matisse “the work”. Extremely colorful stained-glass windows for a space of light; big compositions made of white tiles with figures drawn on them just by the black trace of a paintbrush; altar furnishings and chasubles for the different periods. We are standing in front of a masterpiece of contemporary art and at the same time of sacred art. This volume benefits from a day and night photographic campaign which enables to follow light’s chromatic transformations as envisaged by Matisse himself. MARIE-THERESE PULVENIS DE SELIGNY is curator of the Musée Matisse, where she organizes thematic exhibitions that allow to discover the work of Henry Matisse and to follow the monographic nature of the museum.

ITALIAN VILLAS AND GARDENS Alberta Campitelli

GAUDÍ. LANDSCAPE AS HOME Edited by Maria Antonietta Crippa

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24,5x32,5 • PAGES 256 colour pages SIGNS 300.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German, Chinese Spaces, shapes and ornaments translate into places of life a synthesis of culture and architecture among the most innovative ever recorded in memory of man. In this volume, richly illustrated by Marc Llimargas’ photographic campaign, the authors explore the concept of habitat elaborated by Gaudí in his projects for city residences, country estates but also parks, gardens and garden-cities, where even today we can admire his prophetic legacy.

LE CORBUSIER. RONCHAMP

the chapel of notre-dame du haut Françoise Caussé, Maria Antonietta Crippa

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 • PAGES 240 colour pages SIGNS 220.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, English, Spanish Le Corbusier is involved in an elaborate commitment by The Diocesan Commission for Sacred Art of Besançon, thanks to the enthusiastic interest of canon Ledeur and François Matey. Starting from a tightened debate between the customers and the architect Ronchamp will be created, and it will be immediately considered a masterpiece, but immediately it will also fuel many arguments. A focused photography campaign allows to read both the majestic and the simbolic meaning of Le Corbusier’s work, as well as the architectonic and also ornamental details, which belongs to this monument, as result of an extraordinary dialogue. FRANCOISE CAUSSÉ Associate professor of Arts, has been professor at Écoles normales d’instituteurs de Douai and Mont-de-Marsan, then at Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres d’Aquitaine. MARIA ANTONIETTA CRIPPA Full professor of History of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan and Scientific Director of the Institute for the History of Lombard Art

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 • PAGES 280 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 450.000 The great number of villas and gardens that since the Middle Ages have identified the Italian landscape represents a vast and precious heritage of mankind that has been the object of specialized, often monographic, studies. For the first time, this volume takes an overall look at the whole of the Italian peninsula, tracing the different thematic paths which allow us to link villas and gardens in Sicily with those in Liguria and Veneto: the esoteric gardens, conceived as theatre scenography, the sombre fortresses, no longer used for defensive purposes and then made more graceful by flowerbeds and groves, the royal residences, the water gardens. The evolution and spreading on the territory of each theme has been expounded by means of exhaustive essays with a rich set of photographs, on the basis of historical references. ALBERTA CAMPITELLI, art and garden historian, until 2016 Director of the Villas and Historical Parks of the Municipality of Rome.

THE INVENTION OF THE WESTERN GARDEN EVirgilio Vercelloni, Matteo Vercelloni HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 25x31 • PAGES 286 colour pages • SIGNS 520.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German, Chinese The garden in the western world is always somehow a paradise on earth and its steady invention is the history of the symbolic and practical research of the reconstruction of this original idea, of this myth. In Europe and the Western world the idea of garden is part of the global history of its inhabitants. European man continuously changes his garden, from geometrical to formal or artificially naturalistic; he will exclude and include flowers form the setting as main characters of the vegetal landscape, inventing an infinite sequel of landscapes. This work visually and textually documents the creating along two millennia of the Western garden. VIRGILIO VERCELLONI Architect, urbanist and landscape gardener. He was Professor of History of Architecture at the Milan Politecnico. MATTEO VERCELLONI graduated in architecture from the faculty of the Milan Politecnico. He worked with Uniplan in performing studies, research and designs for innovative territorial management.

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THE TREE OF LIFE.

the mosaics of otranto cathedral Cristina Rabioso HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 • PAGES 280 colour pages The first book that shows in all its beauty, with a special photographic campaign, the largest floor mosaic in the world. A narration in images that starts from the Original Sin and continues between passages from the Bible and references to ancient history, almost a labyrinth between the vices and virtues of man. The result of this operation leads to reconsidering the general interpretation of the mosaic in a unitary and biblical sense, integrating the extra-biblical stories into the universal History of Salvation: the great tree, unifying center of the mosaic, takes on the characteristics of the Tree of Life, which marks and accompanies the Story of Salvation, from creative Wisdom to the Incarnation of the Son. CRISTINA RABIOSO has a master’s degree at the Institute of Religious Sciences in Milan

THE MONASTERIES BUILT EUROPE Raymond Oursel, Léo Moulin

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 23,5x30,5 • PAGES 288 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 265.000 In the entire European continent toponyms still abound and refer to ancient names of abbeys, convents, priories and hermitages. Places where so many monastic colonies sprang up and often flourished for centuries. Carthusians and Cistercians proceeded to continue the work of improving agricultural and cultural “land” prepared by the Benedictines and Augustinian monks. From Italy to France, from Spain to Portugal, from Great Britain to Germany, to far Scandinavia, the main abbeys have played an irreplaceable role in handing down the ancient knowledge through codes and manuscripts, while spreading at the same time new practices that have helped to build the foundations of modern Europe.

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ITALY AND FLANDERS IN THE 15TH CENTURY Liana Castelfranchi SOFTCOVER • FORMAT cms. 18x23 • PAGES 292 colour pages • SIGNS 365.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German, Dutch Almost half a century of Italian art history revisited in the light of Flemish art. An ideal historical map that traces the circulation of Flemish masterpieces in Italy, configuring their times, methods and intertwining. In the 15th century a bridge was built between these two pictorial universes, north and south of the Alps: this search for reality united both pictorial civilizations. The most striking example is Antonello da Messina, an almost bilingual Italian-Flemish painter, who arrived to reach the supreme Flemish subtlety and translate it into an equally supreme clarity of Italian space and form. LIANA CASTELFRANCHI taught History of Medieval Art at the University of Verona and at the University of Milan. She mainly dedicated his studies to the field of painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

ETERNAL RAVENNA from Etruscans to Venetians Massimiliano David

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 25x33,5 • PAGES 288 colour pages RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German A reference book, a historical-artistic synthesis that proposes new interpretations. Ravenna is known worldwide as a Byzantine city, but its peculiarity as the last great Roman city and its long duration throughout the Middle Ages are rarely enhanced. The topography, the landscape, the monuments, the sculptures, the immense patrimony of mosaics, the evolution of the architectures are analyzed according to a historical, archaeological and artistic approach. A fundamental work accompanied by a stunning photographic campaign completely directed by the author.

RAYMOND OURSEL French historian and scholar at the Institute Catholique in Lyon LÉO MOULIN sociologist and writer, he has taught at the Catholic University of Louvain

MASSIMILIANO DAVID is Professor of Archaeology of the Late Antiquity and of the Late-antique City in the Archaeology Department at the University of Bologna

THE ROMANESQUE HERITAGE

THE MOSAICS OF RAVENNA

the european stone house Santino Langé

Jutta Dresken-Weiland

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The work of the great architect and urban historian Santino Langé wants to capture the relationship that, through the act of building the house or the village, man establishes with nature, drawing the measure of living from a primordial structure. This phenomenon is found in the European geographical area where the use of stone, as a symbolic material, is more evident and widespread. The shape and characteristics of the houses are related to the aggregative structures of society: the family, the local community and popular social formations. We are therefore able to read, not only geographically, the logic that underlies the shape of the villages, their distribution over the territory and the network of connections. The symbolic value of the house and the village is ultimately the formal representation of a culture and a system of human relationships with nature.

There is no other city as clearly moulded by the Early Christian era as the city of Ravenna. Its Early Christian mosaics, which were realized between the fifth and seventh century, are among the most important art monuments in the world and designated as World Heritage by UNESCO. Although there are numerous studies on Early Christian Ravenna, the iconography of the mosaics and their context in Early Christian art have not been studied extensively yet. This volume enquires into the meaning of the images as such but also into their special function in the buildings and in their liturgical contexts. It examines the interpretations given to the images by the people who made, saw and contemplated them in Late Antiquity. Jutta Weiland unveils the meaning of the great mosaic cycles of Ravenna’s monuments, their specific functions and their liturgical contexts.

SANTINO LANGÉ, architect, was full professor of History of Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic.

JUTTA DRESKEN-WEILAND, since 2004 research fellow at the Universität Regensburg

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MEDIEVAL ART IN EUROPE Liana Castelfranchi

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THE GREAT SEASONS OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ART

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Edited by François Boespflug

It is believed that the Middle Ages began from the time of Constantine and Theodosius, the last example of Romanity with Ravenna and Constantinople. Then it was the era of the great migrations, of Goths, Lombards and the first reunification of the Carolingian world. The year 1000 follows with Germany and Lombardy in the foreground. Then the first truly European koinè dominated by the Romanesque, where the fresco regains the importance it had lost compared to miniatures and minor arts. Polycentric architecture creates, in this period, a universal language. Finally, the Gothic with its reckless architecture in France, Germany and England and the revolution of Giotto’s painting. Europe is Romanesque and Gothic and the Gothic will continue where it will not dominate, as in Italy and France, Humanism.

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Important authors, international authorities in their field of competence, trace the red thread of ancient and medieval art with essays that are linked diachronically. A choral and innovative book resulting from the work of great connoisseurs of the artistic world, capable of achieving a true synthesis that offers new interpretations of masterpieces and styles. Unlike other worlds the Western world - and Europe in it - has a continuum of readability starting from Greek art where, for the first time, the integration between artistic production and historical periods was achieved. FRANÇOIS BŒSPFLUG, theologian, art historian and religious historian, is an emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg

THE HIDDEN SPLENDOR OF THE MIDDLE AGES Liana Castelfranchi

MEDIEVAL ART. the ways of liturgical space edited by Paolo Piva

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 • PAGES 288 colour pages • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French The volume is highly illustrated, thanks also to a photographic campaign expressly realized for the book. The ways of the liturgical space are effectively shown by a complete system of drawings and maps. The guiding idea of the book is to propose the themes of orientation, dynamic fruition and figurative connotation of the liturgical space in an innovative and organic way. This book best interprets the new season that the history of art is experiencing, analyzing medieval art in close relationship with the cultural context that produced it.

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. THE STONE AND THE FIGURE

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 25x31 • PAGES 240 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 132.000 The minor arts occupy a dominant place in the centuries of the early Middle Ages; they provide us with a wealth of objects even higher than the other major works of art. The cultured and refined quality of this heritage leads us to wonder whether it really represents in a more complete and profound way the artistic culture and the expressive language of those centuries: a huge production of gold works, miniatures, ivories, fabrics, ceramics, wooden works and miniatures. In the Middle Ages, the minor arts tended to produce objects intended for real and specific use and yet with a large margin of superfluous and luxurious uselessness: created for use and for aesthetic enjoyment. LIANA CASTELFRANCHI taught History of Medieval Art at the University of Verona and at the University of Milan. She mainly dedicated his studies to the field of painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

MEDIEVAL SOCIETY

edited by Paolo Piva

Franco Cardini

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A journey back in time, in search of an innovative interpretation of the millennial path of the history of art and architecture. Beyond the shapes, the beauty and the structural complexity of the great medieval architectures, this volume brings us back to the original meaning of the buildings that symbolize the Western tradition. It is an unprecedented and fascinating portrait of the history of art with the aim of faithfully restoring the context in which architectural works such as the great cathedrals were born, and at the same time the intentions of the builders, artists and clients who made them.

A synthesis of components and characters of the medieval society from the most recent studies, a society that unravels in the millennium from ‘400 to 1400, a period we call Middleage in Europe. Cardini’s historical synthesis tries to trace the complexity of the Medieval world presenting to the reader a extraordinary variety of elements. The Medieval paradox is the one of a Europe which has lot in common, although its plurality of peoples was often in war. Cardini’s work follows a chronological progress, but at the same time every chapter forms a typology of events, almost a genre. This allows us to grab the components of medieval society complexity during time.

PAOLO PIVA Professor of Medieval Art History at the State University of Milan and member of the scientific committee of the magazine “Medieval Art”. He deals with architecture in relation to the liturgy and iconography in relation to ideology, between the early Christian age and the thirteenth century.

FRANCO CARDINI is an Italian historian and essayist, specialized in the study of the Middle Ages. He is currently professor emeritus at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences aggregated to the Scuola Normale Superiore

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MICHELANGELO. THE MARBLE AND THE MIND. The tomb of Pope Julius II and its statues

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Christoph Luitpold Frommel

Edited by Vera Minazzi, introduction by Franco Alberto Gallo

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Passion, obsession, challenge, research and extreme creativity: this is the story of the forty years the sculptor Michelangelo spent on the execution of the tomb of Pope Julius II and all its corpus of statues. The renovation of the tomb offered the chance of realizing an amazing photographic campaign, with shots and images that couldn’t be caught otherwise. The iconographic setting consists of three different kinds of images: 1. Michelangelo’s sketches 2. Top quality unreleased pictures from the photographic campaign with shots on the single details of the statues and on the ensemble 3. Reconstruction sketches. All these images are shown in the big plates, while along the text there are smaller images for a comparative purpose. CHRISTOPH LUITPOLD FROMMEL was visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1989 to 2001 he was director of the Hertziana Library in Rome

The ambitious goal of this work is to set the Middle Ages music within its historical and cultural context and to provide readers interested in different disciplines − though not musicologists − with an overall picture of music in the Middle Ages; multi-faceted, plain, enjoyable, yet scientifically rigorous. To achieve this goal, many among the most prominent scholars of medieval musicology, at an international level, were involved, along with archaeologists, experts of acoustics and of architecture, historians and philosophers of medieval thought.

ST. FRANCIS AND GIOTTO’S REVOLUTION

Filippo Coarelli

Engelbert Grau, Raoul Manselli, Serena Romano

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FRANCO ALBERTO GALLO An internationally renowned musicologist and eminent scholar of medieval music, he was director of the Department of Musicology at the University of Bologna.

THE ORIGINS OF ROME. History of Roman Art

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The volume presents Francesco’s fi gure, the birth of the Order of Friars Minor and the artistic explosion around it. Francesco’s life has been a revolution that in a few years has created a movement widespread throughout Europe. A movement of the church has never produced so much art at once. In this period takes place the meeting between Francesco’s revolution and the greatest painter of the thirteenth century, Giotto, who reproduced in images Francesco’s history and religious anthropology.

In the most ancient centuries of the Rome of the kings, the city was at the meeting of two rich and lively artistic worlds - the Etruscan one in the north and the Greek-Italic one in the south - and constituted an artistic periphery where varied influences and expressive modalities intertwined and interacted with local sensitivity. In the age of kings, Rome belonged to the relatively homogeneous territory of Tyrrhenian Italy, the signs of which can be seen in urbanism, in the celebration of the sovereign, in temples and in the introduction of writing. In the first part of the Republican age their own components begin to take shape in a continuous exchange of similarity and difference with respect to the surrounding worlds.

SERENA ROMANO Professor of Medieval art at the University of Lausanne. In 2015 she has been the curator of the exhibitions “Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza” and “Giotto, l’Italia” both held in Milan, Palazzo Reale.

FILIPPO COARELLI was full professor of Roman History at the University of Perugia and Professor Emeritus

CISTERCIAN ARTS

ROME. THE SUNSET SPLENDOR

Roberto Cassanelli, Terryl Nancy Kinder

Josef Engemann

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The Cistercian phenomenon occupies a key place in the history of Western culture. Its architecture was exquisitely designed to reflect the simplicity and austerity required for this experiment in monastic life. The lines are sharp and clean, the decor minimal, the spaces created to embody – and to reflect – the contemplative experience. While the Cistercian Order grew to include approximately 1700 abbeys for men and women, it did not end with the Middle Ages, and architecture was not its only manifestation. The importance of this volume is to show how the many arts created by and for Cistercian abbeys continued well beyond the medieval period.

With Constantine the Roman Empire wants to present itself to the world in a new apogee. The imperial symbols have an enormous diffusion; sacred images, after the uncertainties of the Jewish-Christian tradition on the representation of the divine, find their affirmation. While the Western Empire is on the threshold of an irreversible political crisis, the encounter between Romanism and Christianity sets off an extraordinary and fundamental artistic season on an architectural and iconographic level. Architecture sees the flourishing, on the basis of Roman civil and funerary models, of what we call early Christian art. Basilicas, martyria, mausoleums spread to Rome and the Mediterranean.

ROBERTO CASSANELLI teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. TERRYL NANCY KINDER is an American art historian specializing in Cistercian architecture and art.

JOSEF ENGEMANN was a German archaeologist. From 1965 to 1998 he regularly took part in the excavation campaigns of the Germanic Archaeological Institute of Abu Mena, Egypt. Since 1978 Engemann was head of the Department of Archeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bonn

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TURKISH ART. From the Seljuks to the Ottomans

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IRAN. ISLAMIC ART Giovanni Curatola

Giovanni Curatola HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 • PAGES 304 colour pages • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, Turkish

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Fulcrum of Turkish art for grandeur and beauty, Istanbul concentrates in its territory masterpieces spanning over four centuries of Ottoman domination. The events of the extraordinary Turkish art start after the year 1000, when a group of populations originating from Central Asia, under the guidance of the rulers of the Seljuk dynasty, spread from the extreme eastern borders to the heart of Anatolia, subtracting territories from the Byzantium empire. Settled permanently, the Seljuks gave birth to an original art that assumed the use of stone from the conquered regions and used it to build austere interiors and, in the facades and portals, bent it to create an incomparable decorative richness, full of shamanic echoes of the tradition of the steppes and the Islamic passion for calligraphy and geometric motifs. With the transition to the Ottoman Turks and the conquest of Constantinople, the artistic reference point becomes the Mediterranean, and Byzantine architecture offers a model for Ottoman architecture. In the sixteenth century, once the multiethnic and multicultural empire was consolidated under the government and patronage of Suleiman, the great season of Sinan began: a genius of a magnitude comparable to Michelangelo (they were about contemporaries), he manages to create a rigorous architectural language, capable of absorbing both the Mediterranean tradition and the Asian culture. The Suleiman mosque in Istanbul, the Selim mosque in Edirne and all the other mosques of the most important cities of the empire, are in fact Mediterranean and universal masterpieces. Even the decorative art of those centuries expresses a desire for beauty, a passion for color, rigor and a search for elegance: from books to miniatures, from fabrics to carpets and ceramics. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, then, the Ottomans reworked European influences and Art Nouveau marked the art of Istanbul, managing to blend Western and Eastern echoes in a precious balance.

Iran is a frontier country. It’s a transit area, a hinge between East and West, and a privileged cradle of an autonomous artistic elaboration. Persian culture is among the greatest in ancient times which have kept alive throughout the centuries political, urban and artistic traditions, adapting and modifying them in accordance with needs, but always with totally original results. Giovanni Curatola traces the contours of this civilization, presenting Persian architecture (including the analysis of its ornamental aspects), and the so-called decorative arts, like miniature, ceramics, carpets. The influence of typically Islamic artistic elements (fundamentally of Iran’s Islam) spread with various nuances through the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and, obviously, Europe.

IRAQ. Art from ancient Mesopotamia to Islam Edited by Giovanni Curatola

THE GREAT SEASONS OF ISLAMIC ART by Giovanni Curatola

HARDCOVER • FORMAT: cms. 21,5x27 • PAGES: 252 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 450.000 Throughout the long Middle Age period, in the Mediterranean area Islamic art radically involved Arabic, Persian, Turkish and European cultures. Even though it’s not possible to rejoin them in an unitarian history, this book focuses on the different periods in which the Muslim world has brought to light some of the most impressive cultural and artistic masterpieces. This book gathers studies of the most important experts in Islamic art, supported by a complete, powerful iconografic setting.

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 • PAGES 280 colour pages • SIGNS ca 322.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, Spanish A volume full of suggestions, updated with the latest archaeological research, with an exceptional photographic campaign. An extraordinary artistic itinerary that allows the reader to follow the development of one of the greatest intellectual and artistic adventures of human civilization. Tracing a profile of the art expressed by the Mesopotamian civilization, the culture that developed in the “Land between the two rivers”, Tigris and Euphrates, is both an arduous and necessary undertaking. Difficult because an entire library has been dedicated to the subject since the early nineteenth-century archaeological excavations; necessary because the most recent archaeological finds, new discoveries and the deepening of knowledge in the sector require continuous clarifications that shed new light on a rapidly evolving whole, making the overall picture more detailed. And this is all the more true when one examines the successive cultural stratifications that occurred in Mesopotamia, taking into account the continuity of settlement that occurred over the millennia in this land. To the three main sections that made up the original edition of this volume - that of antiquity that we can define as “classical” of royal Mesopotamia with the great and celebrated empires, followed by the era of Hellenism, a prelude to the Parthian and Sassanid age and finally, from the Islamic season, generally unspoken and neglected - today a contribution is added which accounts for the recent archaeological discoveries regarding the pre-Islamic period. The result is an all-round cross-section of the role of processing center and diffuser of culture that Iraq has had over the millennia. GIOVANNI CURATOLA is Professor of Archeology and History of Muslim Art at the University of Udine, after having taught at the Universities of Venice, Florence and Milan (Cattolica). A traveler in the lands of the East, he has numerous publications to his credit.

THE BAGHDAD CALIPHATE the abbasid civilization Francesco Gabrieli

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 23x30 PAGES 288 colour pages • SIGNS ca 550.000 What happens in Baghdad and in the neighboring regions between the eighth and the tenth century is, on the cultural, legal, scientific, literary and artistic level, one of the apogees of the Arab and medieval civilization in general. The Arabs in fact promote all the arts and sciences, architecture reaches unparalleled levels and so the miniature. But what matters most is the widening of the cultural horizon: in Baghdad important scholars, scientists and artists of various cultures and religions rush and perform functions. It is the pluralist and universalist declination of Islam itself. FRANCESCO GABRIELI (1904-1996) Orientalist, he was one of the leading Italian experts on Arab culture. He taught Arabic language and literature at the University of Rome and was president of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1985 to 1988.

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BEYOND AESTHETICS Use, abuse and dissonances in African artistic traditions Wole Soyinka HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 18,5x23,5 • PAGES 204 colour pages • SIGNS ca.262.000 Playwright, poet, essayist, novelist and Nobel prize Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This collection of essays offers an in-depth study of the collector’s motivations, as well as a highly personal look at the politics of aesthetics and collecting. Soyinka describes a world of mortals, muses and divinities that gives the works of art history and meaning. He considers the status of art objects to be controversial, denouncing dogmatic efforts, both colonial and religious, to suppress the artistic traditions of Africa. Soyinka affirms the poetic and provocative power of collecting as a vindication of a tradition and an identity. WOLE SOYINKA is one of the greatest African authors of the contemporary world. Imprisoned in Nigeria in the 1960s due to his political-civil commitment, in 1986 he received the Nobel Prize for literature.

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ICONS MEANING AND HISTORY Mahmoud Zibawi HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 23x30 • PAGES 272 colour pages • SIGNS 300.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch In this volume, the Lebanese artist Mahmoud Zibawi illustrates the meaning of the icon starting from the theological principles and the dogmatic foundations that allowed its genesis, in an area of the ancient world that fuses Indo-European genius, Greek-Latin humanism and Indo-Iranian imaginary. MAHMOUD ZIBAWI Born in Lebanon in 1962. A talented painter, he collaborates on the cultural pages of the main Lebanese newspapers with articles on painting and poetry.

ICONS. THE GREAT JOURNEY Edited by Tania Velmas

ETHIOPIA. HISTORY, ART, CHRISTIANITY Walter Raunig

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24 x 32,5 • PAGES 320 colour pages • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German This Work constitutes an introduction to the cultural and artistical tradition of Ethiopia, a border culture astride Red Sea, between Africa and present-day Yemen. The encounter with Islam at the beginning was full of respect and harmonious living together. Later such relationship became conflictual until the late Middle Ages. Ethiopian art clearly deeps its roots in the African, Arabic, pre-Islamic world. In the contemporary age the recent discovery of the Churches carved in the rock have revealed an extraordinary art, a unique architecture and a pictorial heritage which saw its climax between the 13th and the 14th century. Such tradition doesn’t stop and arrives till today with rites and articrafts. WALTER RAUNIG German ethnologist and since 1978 director of the Munich State Museum of Ethnology. He has published several studies on his research work in the Middle East and Northeast Africa with a focus on the history of culture, trade and art history in Ethiopia.

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x30 • PAGES 400 colour pages SIGNS ca. 658.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German, Spanish The first global history of iconographic art. All the countries involved, all the techniques and the stylistic evolution. The icon first came about in the Hellenistic era in the Middle East, during the last period of the Roman Empire. The biggest centre of production for iconographic works of art was first Constantinople, and then later Russia. The icons vary from country to country, reflecting diverse cultural traditions, but we always recognise them as “icons”: images with a symbolic, liturgical, religious and sometimes even political power in Western Christianity. In this book Tania Velmans invited the most important scholars from different countries to discuss iconography on a global scale, contributing with their varied skills to create the first comprehensive history of iconographic art. TANIA VELMANS was a pupil of André Grabar, is a leading scholar of Byzantine wall paintings. She is Director of Research at the CNRS of Paris.

THE RUSSIAN ART OF ICONS Viktor N. Lazarev

CHRISTIAN ARABIA Michele Piccirillo

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An exciting journey on the tracks of the first Christians on the Holy Land, accompanied by a great archaeologist. The Byzantine emperors encouraged evangelization and Arabia knew a Christianity that left many architectural and artistic testimonies: this book collects and illustrates them, analyzing history, art and culture of the Christian populations of Arabia, which also lasted during the first two centuries of Islam.

Russian icons are a discovery of the twentieth century. In fact, it is only after an important season of restorations that these works, cleaned of the dark layers of paint and subsequent coats of paint, have revealed their intrinsic value. Viktor Lazarev’s work is an unsurpassed classic, embellished with a very rich section of color plates. The volume analyzes the history of Russian icons from their origins to the early sixteenth century with a deliberate choice to focus on the “golden age” of this art. Lazarev’s work describes the birth of panel painting in Russia, the technique, aesthetics and the main schools of icon production, as well as introducing the reader to the most important artists of this tradition and to the their works.

MICHELE PICCIRILLO (1944-2008) A distinguished Franciscan archaeologist, he has been an internationally renowned scholar, a leading figure in fundamental discoveries and recovery of numerous archaeological sites in the Middle East.

VIKTOR N. LAZAREV was one of the best known international iconologists. In addition to being a profound connoisseur of the art of the Italian Renaissance, he was the undisputed authority in the field of medieval Russian painting.

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

Tania Velmans

Mauro Della Valle

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A work on art with an enormous political meaning. A world which is dissapearing. This volume is a comprehensive analysis, froma hi storical, social, theological, archaeological point of view, of the various expressions of art produced from the IVth to the XVth century in the vast territory of the Christian Orient. The current conflicts between colonial interests and fundamentalism are threatening a thousand-year-old human and cultural presence which has left an irrefutable testimony in the arts.

In the sixth century, under the emperor Justinian, occurred the birth of an extraordinary and innovative architecture that now we call “Byzantine architecture” and that lasted for centuries: from Byzantium to Constantinople, from the greek and cretan Mediterranean to the Balkan region, true heir of Byzantium art. This journey through time and space, written by serbian authors V. Kora0 and M. Šuput and introduced by Mauro della Valle, is a synthesis of the architecture born with Justinian, developed in the Slavic world and infl uencing the Ottoman world. An architecture full of amazing colors and patterns but faithful to its original structure: a cultural and artistic commonwealth.

TANIA VELMANS was a pupil ofAndré grabar, is a leading scholar of Byzantine wall paintings. She is Director of Research at the CNRS of Paris and in charge of the seminar program at the Institut national des langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), correspondant of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the author of many works on the art and the culture of the Byzantine world.

THE FIRST CHRISTIAN IMAGES Mahmoud Zibawi

MAURO DELLA VALLE Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the University of Milan, he graduated in Arts at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome and specialized in History of Art.

FROM BYZANTIUM TO ISTAMBUL Edited by Tania Velmans

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The Early Christian art is here re-examined thanks to the new researches carried out in anthropology of the sacred, history of art, iconography and history of architecture. The analysis starts from the Middle East, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and reaches as far as Cappadocia and Armenia. A world that has not to be confused with Byzantium, a world that allows a look at the very plural early Christian: oriental Christian art, Byzantine art, but also Roman and Italian art.

Istanbul, a city unique not only within the Mediterranean Region, but also globally, is the Metropolis of three empires, the three cultures, three religions and immortal art. International authors and young scholars have come together to impart their knowledge of the artistic expression and the urban evolution of this magical city. This unparalleled and unprecedented work that illuminates particular facets of the great manifestations of the Bosporus metropolis.

MAHMOUD ZIBAWI He was born in Lebanon in 1962. A talented painter, he collaborates on the cultural pages of the main Lebanese newspapers with articles on painting and poetry.

TANIA VELMANS Was a pupil of André Grabar, is a leading scholar of Byzantine wall paintings. She is Director of Research at the CNRS of Paris and in charge of the seminar program at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), correspondent of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and author of many works on the art and the culture of the Byzantine world.

THE DAWN OF CHRISTIAN ART Thomas F. Mathews, Norman E. Muller HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 • PAGES 256 colour pages • SIGNS ca 700.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French In spite of a flood of recent publications, the major unsolved problem of Byzantine art remains the origin and growth of icons and their religious usage. This study opens two unexplored paths of research: first, it introduces a new body of panel-paintings from pre-Christian Egypt which clearly anticipates icons in their painting technique and their presentation of haloed divinities in static poses. Second, it uncovers a series of neglected documents, from the second century AD down to the Church Council of Nicea II in the eighth century, that describe the veneration of Christian icons and their insertion into the ceremonies of the Church. THOMAS F. MATHEWS is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

RUSSIAN ART

Gerol’d Ivanovi/ Vzdornov, Georgij Karlovi/ Vagner HARDCOVER • FORMAT: cms. 24,5x32,5 • PAGES: 488 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 1.500.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German, Russian Two of the world’s leading experts realize a unique work on russian history and culture. The book traces the great turns and the timing of the various eras of the main expressions of Russian art, from the formation and the fl owering of Rus’ of Kiev (in X sec.) to the controversial period of the Tatar domination. A precise survey of the context and the peculiarities in which the russian artistic sensibility has arisen and fl ourished, fascinating the great contemporary artists and the Western public. GEROL’D IVANOVI\VZDORNOV (1936) Expert in history of art and ancient Russian culture. GEORGIJ KARLOVI\VAGNER (1908-1995) Ethnologist, art historian of international fame, expert of Russian medieval architecture.

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CHINESE ART a cultural history

BUDDHIST ART

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A comprehensive history of Chinese culture and arts, from the period of the early dynasties to the beginning of the XX Century. Christine Kontler takes the reader from the Neolithic cultures of the Early Dynasties to the great art and culture periods of the Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties up to the XX century and the break with tradition. Based on the study of the texts transmitted by tradition and on the most recent archaeological discoveries this volume is both about China’s history of art and history of culture. And as such, it is unique of its kind.

Among the missionary religions Buddhism is the most ancient one. It is the only unity factor of the whole Asian continent and it has inspired an art of deep spirituality, become a fundamental part of the world heritage. The chosen editorial form, while keeping the allure of a great artbook, is that of an historical atlas: that means that together with the photography of monuments, also plans, reconstructions, pictures and an unpu-blished cartography has been inserted, among in the widest iconography summoned up so far for single work on Buddhist art.

Gilles Béguin

Christine Kontler

CHRISTINE KONTLER Sinologist with a degree in religious studies, is member of the Centre de Recherche sur l’Extrême Orient at Paris. Sorbonne, Professor at the Université François Rabelais in Tours and at the Institut Catholique in Paris.

ANGKOR

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India and its millenary artistic and cultural tradition are explored by Michel Delahoutre, with the help of a brand new photographic campaign, to discover a rich and complex aesthetic canon that seems capable of reconciling the philosophical ideals of meditation and renunciation with the joy of life and sensuality. From 4,000 BC to the modern age, great Indian art spreads, many centuries after the THE JOURNEY OF INDIAN BUDDHIST ART Vedic texts, starting from Buddhist art. Michel Delahoutre Gilles Béguin Indian art was born aniconic, with circular and symbolic stupas, then developed with the figure of the Buddha and his life, that was reverberated everywhere. The monumental Hindu complexes followed, firstly carved out of the rock andfeatures then Technical created as impressive buildings: the pantheon of Hindu divinities seems to dance INSIDE FORMAT cms. 23x30 in the statuary, born from a simple sacred square with the hearth PAGES for sacrifices 240 colour pages of which 112 in 4 colours, 128with text with b/w illustrations in the center. Even the illuminated pages of the 18th century are saturated PAPER matt art paper gms. 150 sqm images, colors and music.

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MICHEL DELAHOUTRE (1923-2014) has been a Indian art at the Institute of Science and Theology of than twenty years and has coordinated the impressive choral work of the Dictionary of Religions directed by P. Poupard (PUF, Paris, 1993). Among his works published LICENSED IN by Jaca Book, we mention The journey of Indian art (2008); KumbhaFRENCH: Mela. Indian CITADELLES & MAZENOD pilgrimage (2001) and The spirit of Indian art (1994).

GILLES BÉGUIN Honorary General Curator of Heritage, was responsible for the collections of Nepal and Lamaic Buddhism at the National Museum of Asia.

THE JOURNEY OF INDIAN ART Michel Delahoutre

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x30 • PAGES 240 colour pages of which 112 • in 4 colours, 128 text with b/w illustrations • SIGNS 300.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French Indian art has focused on the human form, transfiguring it so that it can express the greatness and depth of the realized beings: gods, the great spiritual masters, Buddha and Jina. The uniqueness of Indian art is gradually discovered with its works and also through a reflection on the divine, the sacred, the spiritual, the eternal and the ephemeral. After having researched and meditated for a long time, the author suggests, in this volume, ways to access to the spirituality and aesthetics of Indian art.

The spirit of Indian art To get into the spirit of Indian art, the European reader, whose aesthetic training is primarily rooted in the Greco-Roman tradition, must ﬁrst learn a language. This language does not consist of words, but of forms, rules, aesthetic choices and mysterious connections with nature and the cosmos. Indian art has focused on the human form, transﬁguring it so that it can express the

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, the Khmer civilization chose Angkor and the surrounding area as its politic and spiritual centre. Its palaces and temples glorified both the kings who had them built and their religion. Such a religion was constituted by a syncretism between Buddhism and Hinduism, the two great religions coming from India, where they have been always coexisting. There was even a syncretism between Shaivism and Vaishnavism. The sacredness of Angkor consists in huge architectures that are not only rich in sculptures, but themselves real monumental sculptures. The wonderful surrounding landscape, where they are placed, with canals and water basins, is like a wide garden, a perfect universe, a mirror of the Cosmos. A definitive and indispensable Work for the comprehension of Angkor.

Table of contents • INTRODUCTION • I. INDIAN ART IN ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND • II. THE SPIRIT OF CLASSICAL ART Sculptures Mural paintings Davidian bronzes • III . MINIATURE

MICHEL DELAHOUTRE He taught Hinduism and Indian art at the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (Institut Catholique de Paris) for twenty years.

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RAPHAEL’S ROOMS Christoph Luitpold Frommel

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 224 colour pages SIGNS ca. 280.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • German, Polish In the second half of 1508 Raphael was in Rome, hired by the fellow countryman Bramante for the decoration of the rooms chosen for his own use by Pope Julius II; within a few months, the painters already working on the spot give way to Raphael’s full assumption of responsibility for the decoration of the rooms that will become the “Rooms” par excellence. Frommel’s gaze penetrates the painter’s intentions and reveals the message of the Stanze, the experience of breaking the figurative tradition as a premise of the visual development which, along the Four walls of the Papal Library, show the themes announced by the medallions that personify Theology, Philosophy, Justice and Poetry. CHRISTOPH LUITPOLD FROMMEL was visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1989 to 2001 he was director of the Hertziana Library in Rome.

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RAPHAEL’S LOGGIAS Nicole Dacos

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 352 colour pages • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Chinese Raphael’s workshop was the most remarkable and complex artistic firm of the entire sixteenth century and the Loggias of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican represent one of the highest outcomes of the artist’s genius, as well as the most fortunate. The echo that the Loggias were able to create was immense, in Rome and in the world, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. NICOLE DACOS (Brussels 1938-Rome 2014) Famous art historian, she taught at the University of Brussels and London, at the Warburg Institute, and was recognized as a “senior guest” at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu and at the Center for the Advanced Study in Visual Arts in Washington. She worked at the National Scientific Research Foundation of Belgium, becoming its director.

SAINT PETER’S BASILICA H. Brandenburg, A. Ballardini, C. Thoenes

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THE SISTINE UNVEILED Heinrich W. Pfeiffer HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 320 colour pages RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Chinese India and its millenary artistic and cultural tradition are explored by Michel Delahoutre, with the help of a brand new photographic campaign, to discover a rich and complex aesthetic canon that seems capable of reconciling the philosophical ideals of meditation and renunciation with the joy of life and sensuality. From 4,000 BC to the modern age, great Indian art spreads, many centuries after the Vedic texts, starting from Buddhist art. Indian art was born aniconic, with circular and symbolic stupas, then developed with the figure of the Buddha and his life, that was reverberated everywhere. The monumental Hindu complexes followed, firstly carved out of the rock and then created as impressive buildings: the pantheon of Hindu divinities seems to dance in the statuary, born from a simple sacred square with the hearth for sacrifices in the center. Even the illuminated pages of the 18th century are saturated with images, colors and music. HEINRICH W. PFEIFFER is graduated in History of Art, Classical Archeology and Prehistory at the Faculty of Letters in Tübingen. Ordained priest in 1969 in Berlin, he acquired a license in Theology in 1970 at the PUG in Rome. Appointed Adjunct Professor, then Extraordinary and Full Professor at PUG, for nine years he was director of the Higher Course for the Cultural Heritage of the Church and for five years a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church.

The architectural and artistic history of St. Peter’s Basilica: from its origins to the Renaissance and Baroque transformations that have shaped its present form of the center of Christianity. HUGO BRANDENBURG Member of the German Archaeological Institute, of the Pontifical Academy of Roman Archeology and of the Commission of Sacred Archeology, he is a specialist in late ancient and early Christian archeology.

SAINT PETER IN THE VATICAN. The mosaics and the sacred space Edited by Pietro Zander HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 352 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 640.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German A journey into the heart of the first church of Western Christianity, a treasure trove of one of the most varied and expressive artistic heritage in the world. A photographic campaign specially created to bring the reader closer to the masterpieces of the Basilica, symbol of Christianity. Leading the reader through the harmony and grandeur of these mosaics is the intent of this volume, which represents an essential iconographic reading, edited by the Veneranda Fabbrica di San Pietro, to understand the space and images of the Vatican basilica, still today an extraordinary expression of human creativity, artistic genius and Christian faith. PIETRO ZANDER archaeologist, head of the Necropolis and Classical Antiquities of the Fabbrica di San Pietro in the Vatican. He directed the restoration of the Apostle’s tomb and published several essays on the subject.

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THE BIBLE. WRITING AND IMAGES from The Vatican Library

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VATICAN GARDENS From the Middle Ages to the twentieth century

Edited by A.M. Piazzoni and F. Manzari

Alberta Campitelli

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The Bible, or the unification of the Old and New Testaments, gave rise to the development of extraordinary scholarly and artistic achievements in the Mediterranean, Middle East and, above all, in Eastern and Western Europe since Late-Antiquity.

A volume that frames the Vatican gardens as an essential milestone in the history of the Western garden and in the history of art. The gardens are analyzed in their symbolic meanings, in the coexistence of productive activities and functions of delight, in the functions of decoration and support to botanical sciences. We cannot talk about the famous Roman gardens, inside the city and in the countryside, without remembering that the Vatican gardens were built before them in the Middle Ages: they were the object of imitation for Roman gardens. This publication traces their entire history, highlighting achievements, experiments and transformations that concern 22 of the 44 total hectares of the Vatican City.

AMBROGIO M. PIAZZONI is the Vice Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, first layman to hold this position. As Vice Prefect (1999), he is also the scientific director of cataloguing of the Vatican Library manuscripts and director of the Library’s publishing department.

ALBERTA CAMPITELLI Art and garden historian, until 2016 Director of the Villas and Historical Parks of the Municipality of Rome.

THE VATICAN LIBRARY Edited by Ambrogio Piazzoni

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 352 colour pages • SIGNS ca 453.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, German A treasure chest in the heart of the Vatican City that collects unique testimonies for the cultural and religious history of humanity. Following its history from its beginnings, this volume focuses above all on its transformation into the Library of the Popes, after their definitive transfer to the Vatican in the 15th century. From the end of the nineteenth century the Library doubled its reading spaces and increased its deposits. The absolute protagonists of this unique place in the world are naturally the books, or, if you like, the codices, the parchments, the most famous manuscripts for their cultural contribution, for the preciousness of the document and for their artistic value.

THE VATICAN BAROQUE Art, architecture and ceremonial Edited by Francesco Buranelli HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 352 colour pages • SIGNS ca 522.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • German, Polish A period of modern art that highlights the Vatican complex as the symbol of the Eternal City. Like the Baroque, he was able to create the last great unitary artistic-cultural style of Christianity. The authors of the volume illustrate the different themes looking for artistic-architectural connections: the late Mannerist churches of Giacomo Della Porta and Carlo Maderno and the other Berninian and Borrominians. Only by describing it in this way, within a powerful cultural and artistic fervor, is it possible to highlight the central and driving role played by the centuries-old Vatican construction site in the birth and codification of the new Baroque style, which from Rome would then spread to the main Italian and Europeans capitals to finally arrive to the new world.

THE VATICAN NECROPOLIS

FRANCESCO BURANELLI Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church and former General Director of the Vatican Museums, a position to which he was appointed by His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

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THE FIRST CHURCHES OF ROME. iv-vii Century

Paolo Liverani, Giandomenico Spinola

The immense hidden heritage of the city of the dead of ancient Rome, a living and lived space, full of splendid artistic testimonies. Far from the great imperial tombs and the noble tombs of the Appian Way, the submerged world of the necropolis highlights the clear perception of crossing two thousand years of history at once. Contextualizing the necropolis in the overall panorama of the time, the volume shows a cross-section of the society, culture, and beliefs of the Romans between the ages of Augustus and Constantine. The focus of the analysis is not based on the political and public monuments of Rome, but on the artistic monuments erected by families facing of the mystery of the afterlife. Extraordinary works for the social interest, but also of impressive artistic composure and iconographic inventiveness. PAOLO LIVERANI former director of the Classical Antiquities section of the Vatican Museums, teaches Topography of Ancient Italy at the University of Florence.

Hugo Brandenburg

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5 • PAGES 368 colour pages • SIGNS ca 800.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • German From the first Domus Ecclesiae to the sacred buildings of the first Christian church, which over time acquire a monumental physiognomy radically distinct from the traditional religious architecture of antiquity. A fundamental introduction to the architecture of the first churches of Rome. The volume by Hugo Brandenburg has become the international reference work on the first churches of Rome, an extraordinary building phenomenon which, following the Milan edict of 313 issued by Constantine and the co-regent Licinius, made Rome the first center of expression and diffusion of the new art that we call “paleo-Christian. HUGO BRANDENBURG Member of the German Archaeological Institute, of the Pontifical Academy of Roman Archeology and of the Commission of Sacred Archeology, he is a specialist in late ancient and early Christian archeology.

Symbols and Myths

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THE MYTH

THE SAINTS AND THEIR SYMBOLS

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From rock art to our days, the myth carries, thanks to its symbolic language, a truthful message concerning the human condition, the place of man in the universe and the mystery of life and death. The myth is a constitutive story of a culture, of a widespread wisdom, of fundamental references for a population. The story is linked to images and symbols, for this reason the myth lends itself to being illustrated. The illustrations cover monuments, gods and symbols of antiquity, as well as scenes from the Kumbha Mela, the largest pilgrimage in the world held at the crossing of the Ganges with two other sacred rivers.

This Work fulfils the demand coming from the exigency to recognize the saints through emblems which the iconographic tradition of art and popular culture has connected to that person. It is a work of popular religious culture and religious anthropology, which can be really useful and valuable also to scholars in history of art for its simple and direct approach to the saints’ biography and to the iconographical pertinences which tradition has made up in the time around each of them.

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THE ART OF SYMBOL Raimon Panikkar

Fernando and Gioia Lanzi

GIOIA LANZI, professor of Sacred Art at the Philosophical Dominican Studium in Bologna, associated to the Papal University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and FERNANDO LANZI, member of the Commission on Sacred Art and of the Institute for the History of the Church of the Diocese of Bologna.

SYMBOLS IN HISTORY OF MAN Natale Spineto

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 18x23 • PAGES 292 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 354.000 For Pannikar the lack of a symbolic life is the biggest gap in our societies. Man is handicapped, he has no bridges with the sense of everyday life and with the infinite. Man recognizes the symbol above all in nature. Kailash is the sacred mountain of Hindus and other religions; it is excellence, the symbol that unites man with heaven and destiny. Panikkar himself, in old age and at the risk of his own life, made a pilgrimage to Kailash, in present-day Tibet. Man recognizes the symbols in nature (mountains, trees, fire, water), and reconstructs them with his own hands: he has the art of the symbol to create bridges with meaning. The symbolic man becomes an artist man, images are born from him, buildings, miniatures, architecture, music. Shiva, who while dancing creates the universe symbolized by a circle from which fires shine, is one of the most engaging images of humanity. RAIMON PANIKKAR, (1918-2010), is a universally known author, whose works are translated into a dozen languages. Participating in a plurality of traditions (Indian and European, Hindu and Christian, scientific and humanistic), he taught in Europe, India and the United States. Jaca Book, following the author’s wishes, has published his Opera Omnia and several other works under the curatorship of Milena Carrara Pavan and in collaboration with the Vivarium Foundation of Tavertet (Catalonia, Spain).

THE ORIGINS OF RELIGIONS

by Julien Ries, with contributions by Fiorenzo Fiacchini

HARDCOVER • FORMAT: cms. 24x30 • PAGES: 240 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 400.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German, Spanish, Greek, Hungarian This magnificent book, very detailed from the iconographic point of view, makes us travel in time (from prehistoric man to the modern age) and in all the different civilizations (the ancient European West, the Middle East, the Far East, the Americas, Oceania) to understand which signs and profound meanings have guided man on the path of his evolution. NATALE SPINETO Since 2005, associate professor of History of Religions at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Turin. Member of the editorial board of the scientifi c journal «Historiography» and «Historia religionum»

CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS OF THE ORIGINS Gérard-Henry Baudry

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From the concept of homo religious by Mircea Eliade, Julien Ries elaborated a new disciplinary field: religious anthropology. The anthropological view allows to study the origin of religions, and what man created and lived on the religious level before their birth. This volume applies the same method to observe the emerging of great religions. A very topical work, with an astounding iconographical documentation.

This Work is an introduction to the world of symbols of the early age of Christianity, taking into consideration each “visual” symbol and not those expressed only in oral or literary form. This book deals with symbols painted in fresco or made with various techniques, mosaic, carving and engraving on different materials, but also symbols clearly recognizable in architectural shapes and in the organization of space. While focusing in the first three chapters on symbols of Christ, the Ancient and the New Testament, the volume provides a view not only limited to the symbological features of the Scriptures, but deals with all those symbols connected to daily and social life as well as the relationship between nature and cosmos.

JULIEN RIES Born in 1920, is emeritus professor and founder of the Centre d’Histoire des religions at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, where he has been teaching History of Religions for twenty years.

GERARD-HENRY BAUDRY, PhD in philosophy and theology, is well-known for his studies concerning Teilhard de Chardin and in particular for his interest in Christian inculturation.

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WAS JESUS REALLY A CHILD? François Boespflug

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HISTORICAL ATLAS OF LITURGY Keith F. Pecklers

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x30 • PAGES 164 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 309.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French Did Jesus of Nazareth really live his childhood as a child? Did he learn to stand and walk, run and fall, read and write, count and pray? Did he disobey his parents, was he corrected by his teachers or did he already know everything from birth? The canonical Gospels say nothing about it, the apocryphal texts provide imaginative and not very credible answers and the Magisterium of the Church does not pronounce itself on this subject. The painters therefore had carte blanche, especially in the West. The author analyzes them in detail and classifies their works. Some show a child who looks like a “mini adult”, behaving like no other child would. Others, rarer, venture to portray Jesus as he is learning. Still others, numerous, imagine him as a normal child, but gifted with premonitory visions of his destiny, in particular death on the cross.

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x31 • PAGES 260 colour pages • SIGNS 325.000 + 80.000 annexes • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, Spanish The Historical Atlas of Liturgy is a true geography of Christianity. This book presents an anthropological history of the Church, which calls into question architecture, art, literature, history of culture, as well as the analysis of pastoral and ecclesiastical policies considered in its connections with civil power and the organization of society. KEITH F. PECKLERS Author of numerous articles and books, he is professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and professor of Liturgical History at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Sant’Anselmo in Rome.

FRANÇOIS BOESPFLUG, theologian, art historian and historian of religions, he is professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg

THE THREE WISE MEN Madeleine Félix

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x30 • PAGES 240 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 450.000 The three wise men between history and legend: the tale of one of the most popular western myths. The rediscovery of three characters that, during the centuries, achieved a fundamental role for evangelic narration, besides artistic and literary dimensions still to discover and analyze. Three Wise Men, representatives of the three ages of life, kings of three countries of different continents. They were called Gaspare, Melchiorre and Baldassarre. This work gives the reader an organic framework and a homogeneus narrative, in the light of the texts that complete and comment the original story, following and studying the history of relics since the Middle Ages, watching the artists and writers who are inspired by the liturgy of the Church, drawing fully from popular traditions.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN MONASTICISM Edited by Juan María Laboa HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32 • PAGES 272 colour pages • SIGNS 325.000 + 80.000 annexes • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Greek Starting from pre-Christian and biblical monasticism, the volume analyzes the period of gestation and the monasticism of the desert, to then follow in parallel the Eastern and Western currents, studying their mutual contributions. It reaches our own times, understanding the contributions of monasticism to ecumenism and to the dialogue between religions. Liturgy, life values, cultural enviroment, memory and comtemplation: from the Monk/World relation, the fundamental lesson of integrated beauty for a better humanity.

MADELEINE FELIX Art historian and religion specialists.

ART IN RELIGIONS

J. Ries, M. Delahoutre, J. Varenne, J. Lafontaine-Dosogne, O. Clément HARDCOVER •FORMAT cms. 23x30 •PAGES 252 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 450.000 Religious experience and artistic experience cross each other since the beginning of the history of humanity. Different authors analyze precisely the link between these two experiences. Julien Ries traces the prehistory from the origins of humanity, crossing the Palaeolithic with the great rock art and reaching the sedentarization of man and the birth of agriculture and Gods. Michel Delahoutre analyzes the splendor of the Buddha and how Buddhism, born aniconic, has then proposed an art that has invaded the Far East. Jean Varenne describes the paradox of Hinduism, a family religion that did not need art but which, by popular demand of festivity, produced monumental art. Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosogne analyzes the most impressive and complete artistic expression of the beginnings of Christianity: the mosaic apses. Olivier Clément finally brings us to the miracle of icons. A phenomenon in which artistic and religious experience are indissoluble: beauty and mystic tension.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE BIBLE Enrico Galbiati, Filippo Serafini

HARDCOVER • FORMAT: cms. 24x32 • PAGES: 280 colour pages • SIGNS 325.000 + 80.000 annexes • RIGHTS SOLD IN • Spanish, Polish, Czech, Korean The most complete journey to the Bible, from the legendary story of the Genesis to the Acts of the Apostles. The work follows the biblical text, displays it with archaeological images, landscapes, monuments and an endearing cartography. The most appreciated atlas of the Bible is the result of the research of the famous biblicist Enrico Galbiati, transformed into a historical atlas for the general public, in an edition directed by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. ENRICO GALBIATI Internationally recognized scholar, expert on Hebrew and Middle East languages, he was prefect of the Ambrosian Library.

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ITALY FROM ABOVE

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE II VATICAN COUNCIL

Maria Antonietta Crippa, Roberto Cassanelli, Massimiliano David, Pierluigi Tozzi

Alberto Melloni

A CURA DI MARIA ANTONIETTA CRIPPA

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x31 • PAGES 280 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 837.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, German, Spanish, Polish, Croatian From the preparation of the Council to its conclusions. All the protagonists and the proceedings of a memorable historical event. Participants from all over the world attended the Council, and in this volume the reader will recognize its protagonists, the way in which their work took place, and aspects of their daily life. The reader will be able to follow the progress of the works leading to the Council’s great ‘declarations’ and ‘documents’, and the way the conciliar texts were voted, revised, prepared for the final voting, as well as the final promulgation. A work rich in information, documents and illustrations that bring the reader into the atmosphere of an extraordinary historical moment full of hope for the Church and for humanity. A strong link with Pope Francis who finds in Vatican II the roots of a great work still to be done. ALBERTO MELLONI is an Italian church historian, primarily known for his work on the Second Vatican Council.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CHARITY Juan María Laboa

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x27 • PAGES 240 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 380.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • English, Spanish In this work the historian of the Church, Juan María Laboa, in 40 chapters focuses on charity in the life of the Church and in the figures that most expressed it, from the first Christians up until figures of our times like Mother Teresa or Soeur Emmanuelle. During the big changes of history it can be noted an inventiveness of Christians that, while finding new forms of life as monasticism or religious orders, found as well new forms of charity. In contemporaneity the Christian inventiveness in fulfilling man’s needs found figures and movements that intervened not only in the cities and world’s most wretched places, thus charity becomes also witness of justice and renovation. JUAN MAIA LABOA is a Professor of Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he previously taught at the Complutense University and the Pontifical Comillas University of Madrid.

THE WORLD OF PILGRIMAGES Edited by Paolo Caucci von Saucken

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STORIA DELL’ARTE E DEL PAESAGGIO

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 • PAGES 256 colour pages • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German A visual journey through the great seasons of Italian artistic and architectural history, to read the complex and changing legacy of the Belpaese heritage and interpret the signs of the past in relation to the contemporary context. The volume presents in a bird’s eye perspective an accurate selection of natural landscapes and the multifaceted typology of architecture that has been incorporated over time. The narrative therefore offers a sequence of portraits of the most emerging construction phenomena in Italian history, articulated according to a thematic and chronological order.

ROME FROM ABOVE edited by Roberto Cassanelli

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 • PAGES 320 colour pages •SIGNS ca 260.000 + apparata/annexes • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German Photography from helicopter allows a bird’s-eye view that reminds us of the landscape painting in the xvii and xviii century. In this way specific buildings, monumental complexes or relations between constructions can be observed with a new plasticity, which often allows a more synthetic view of the works and a topographic knowledge. ROBERTO CASSANELLI teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan.

VENICE FROM ABOVE

Armando Dal Fabbro, Maria G. Montessori, Riccarda Cantarelli HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 21,5x29 or 24x32,5• PAGES 288 colour pages • SIGNS ca. 146.000 • RIGHTS SOLD IN • French, German A great photographic campaign, truly stunning aerial views, to immerse yourself in the unique charm of Venice. The medieval masterpieces and the current colors of the lagoon contrast with the monumental Venice, where little remains of the Middle Ages but Renaissance and Baroque shine. The history of Venice starts from the extraordinary orography of the lagoon; a unique landscape in which, from the Late Antiquity, men got used to living and building. ARMANDO DAL FABBRO is director of the Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Iuav University of Venice where he teaches Architectural and Urban Composition.

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MILAN AND LOMBARDY FROM ABOVE

The book reveals the nature of the pilgrimage, in the specifi city and differences that characterize it, in diachronic variants, in the changes of spirituality, in devotional strategies, and it does so by ordering the complex matter through subdivision into peregrinatio, peregrini and santa loca. The pilgrimage is placed in the great horizon of religious anthropology, fulfi lling the function of sacralizing spaces and territories.

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PAOLO CAUCCI VON SAUCKEN Historian and essayist specialized in the study of Christian pilgrimage routes in the Middle Ages. For many people he was considered the greatest living expert on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Born in Ascoli Piceno and studying in Florence, he is currently an ordinary professor of Spanish literature at the University of Perugia.

Edited by Maria Antonietta Crippa

An aerial photographic campaign to discover the places of art on the Lombard territory, the monuments and their historical-cultural contexts. An indispensable volume to understand the stratifications of Milan and its region. The history of city forms and monumental complexes of the entire Lombardy region and its capital is traced through a “bird’s eye” photographic campaign, with the contributions of archaeologists and historians of art and architecture. MARIA ANTONIETTA CRIPPA full professor of History of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan and Scientific Director of the Institute for the History of Lombard Art.

Art and Artificial Intelligence 2020 POSSIBLE FUTURES. art scenarios and artificial intelligence

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the art world. But how do you create a work of art with an AI machine? What do terms like “machine learning” and “deep learning” mean? The purpose of the book is to answer these and many other very topical questions, offering the reader an in-depth overview of how today Artificial Intelligence has become a tool in the production of works of art and an ally in research and fruition during the visit of an exhibition. The book is structured in two parts. The first explains how AI is used today in the world of art, up to the latest studies on the detection of our brain reactions in front of an artistic work. The second part is instead an invitation to discover the pioneers in the application of AI thanks to a series of exclusive interviews that include the famous musician and producer Brian Eno, François Pachet (Sony, Spotify), the artists Mario Klingemann, Mike Tyka, Anna Ridler and Mauro Martino; Piero Poccianti (director of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence); Julia Betancour (director of Conservation Lab, Collection Solo, Madrid); Andrea Concas (Art Backers and Art Rights) and numerous other exponents of the business, academic and applied research world. REBECCA PEDRAZZI Graduated in History and Art Criticism at the University of Milan, she worked as an Art-Advisor first at Bank of Art and later as a freelance. In 2017 she became a journalist and founded NotiziArte, an art and culture news website

Massimo Borghesi FRANCIS The Church between theocon ideology and "field hospital" Massimo Borghesi

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The book, as in a sort of “chronicle from the Pontificate” that reaches up to the present day, analyzes the many issues raised by the Pope that feed the public debate involving also exponents of secular culture. Borghesi analyzes the internal drama that tears apart the Church today, its origins and its protagonists, and the risk that it could lead to an international “schism”. When Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis, on March 13, 2013, the ecclesial legacy he faces is not just that of clergy scandals and corruption of morals. It is also an ideological legacy consolidated in the Catholic world after the fall of communism. This is the “American” model founded on the union between ethical battles against secularization (cultural war) and the identification of Catholicism with the American “spirit” and capitalism. Intellectuals such as Michael Novak, George Weigel, Richard Neuhaus, Robert Sirico elaborated, starting from the 1980s, this synthesis through a highly deformed rereading of John Paul II’s Centesimus annus. With this they became, in the 1990s, the opinion makers of the Church in the USA and Europe. The Catholic world, previously fascinated by Marxism, finds itself in a liberal-conservative ecclesial and political model. The advent of the Latin American Pope causes the crisis of this perspective and the consequent reaction with the threat of the “American schism”. It is the drama of the Church today, deeply divided within itself. The volume analyzes the reaction of the Catholic Neoconservatives in the Church of Francis, studying the time of his pontificate up today. MASSIMO BORGHESI is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences, Humanities and Education of the University of Perugia.

Massimo Borghesi JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO an intellectual biography Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 304 “In the four years since the election of Pope Francis, the number of books and articles published in different languages on his pontificate is very impressive. Through an extraordinary collection of sources and researches,

this book offers a systematic insight into the cultural background and the intellectual influences that helped shape Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s personality and thought. This is an indispensable contribution to understand in better way the complex personality of Pope Francis, in which his pastoral experience and his mystical and intellectual experience are combined.” (Guzman Carriquiry Lecour − Pontificia Comm. Latin America)

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antinomy of life and emotional knowledge Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 224 50 years after Guardini’s death, Massimo Borghesi re-reads the heart of Guardini’s philosophy, his doctrine of the polar opposition, in light of the unpublished writings published in

recent years. The theory of polarity appears as an attempt to respond to the historical-existential lacerations caused by the Great War. The result is an antinomic thought whose aim is to reconcile subject and object, freedom and truth, modernity and religion, reason and experience. Guardini pursues an affective knowledge capable of uniting heart and reason, concept and intuition.

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The volume ideally compares De Lubac, Maritain, Gilson, Fabro and Del Noce, showing the different readings on atheism and, in some cases, the conflict of interpretations. The long introduction offers a new reconstruction of the modern period, by situating the genesis of atheism starting from the religious wars that tragically divided Europe after the Reformation.

MASSIMO BORGHESI Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Perugia. He taught from 1981 to 2007, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophical Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Bonaventure in Rome where he was, from 2000 to 2002, the director of the “Bonaventure Chair”. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of the History of Atheism at the Pontifical Urban University. He is a member of the board of numerous scientific journals and publishing houses.

Religious History

Religious History 2020 WE ARE A REVOLUTION. life of dorothy day Giulia Galeotti

Juan María Laboa

Storia dei Papi

Dalle origini a Papa Francesco

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THE HISTORY OF THE POPES Between the kingdom of God and earthly passions

Juan Maria Laboa Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 600 Juan María Laboa is the best-known Spanish historian of the Church. Known first of all for his works on contemporaneity, he has also studied the themes of the origins of Christianity and of the councils, as well as having studied the most complex and controversial moments in the history of the Church. His History of the Popes contextualizes each figure in its historical moment with the politi-

cal-social values and with the situation of the Church over time. Laboa gives a picture of the personality of each pontiff, of his cultural positions, of the spiritual and secular witness, of the ability to govern and also of peculiar aspects of the character that have determined decisions and behaviors. JUAN MARIA LABOA is a Professor of Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he previously taught at the Complutense University and the Pontifical Comillas University of Madrid.

THE BIBLE AND ITS TRASLATORS.

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 450 Dorothy Day, indicated as an example by Pope Francis, was an American journalist and founder of The Catholic Worker movement. A revolutionary woman with an adventurous, uncomfortable, difficult life and a disconcerting topicality between inequalities, poverty, work, ecology, motherhood (and rejection of it), pacifism, absolute faith and a difficult relationship with the Catholic Church. Following her, we meet Margaret Sanger, Euge-

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 196 The rereading of one of the most extraordinary episodes of cultural history between East and West: the Greek translation of the Bible. The great code of Western literature, which determined the idea of the sacred in the West, has lived for thousands of years through its rewritings: multiple editions, different authors, different canons, different originals. A history spanning many centuries that has stubbornly crossed different cultures, historical eras and worlds and which has marked, starting from the ancient Near East, the fate of the West. Ardu-

ini tells about originals that cannot be found but that perhaps it is not so necessary to find, about translations that are valid as sources and about sources that are contradictory. It tells how the Bible lives today thanks to hundreds of translators and 600 million readers in 1200 translation projects around the world. STEFANO ARDUINI is full professor of Linguistics at the University of Rome Link Campus. He has taught General Linguistics at the University of Urbino, at the University of International Studies of Rome and at the University of Modena. He is also co-director of the Nida School of Translation Studies.

GIULIA GALEOTTI, journalist, is responsible for the cultural pages of the “Osservatore Romano”

FROM LIGHT TO LIGHT

theology and beauty in dante's paradiso Inos Biffi Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 116

translations searching for an original Stefano Arduini

ne O’Neill, Jacques Maritain, Martin Luther King, Joan Baez, Thomas Merton, Fidel Castro, Ignazio Silone, Teresa of Calcutta, Communists and Popes, American prisons, homeless people unapproachable by their smell, mothers who lose their wits seeing their children die of hunger, trampled farmers, annihilated unemployed. Because Dorothy Day did not only welcome the last of America, she did not only dedicate her existence to them, but she lived her life with them.

Inos Biffi invites us to a real elevation and conversion of aesthetic taste to grasp the sublime summit of pure poetry in Dante’s Paradiso. The third canticle of the Divine Comedy is considered the most difficult, almost the most arid and the most difficult in language.

And in fact it transports us to another world, otherworldly, devoid of the visibility and the sensitive outline of the first two canticles, all molded with light, in which the Blessed nest. Dante with his poetry embellishes theology, represents it as a song, in its lyric and its aesthetics. Hence Paradiso as a cathedral of light. INOS BIFFI Italian theologian and presbyter of the Diocese of Milan, he directs the Institute of the History of Theology in Lugano.

ETHICS OF FREEDOM Francesco Emmolo Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 256 The most original core of the Christian experience is freedom. This different perspective throws a radically new light on some “habitual places” of Christian ethics: guilt, sacrifice, atonement, suffering, obedience. Practical teaching of the Gospel does not start from the need to “teach how to do good”, but from the need to translate the reality of redemption

operating in man into action. The fundamental ethical question for the Christian is: “What reality does God want me to shape with my actions?”. Christian action is thus configured as an authentically creative action. In the words and actions of Jesus a free world takes shape. Man has no debt to pay, no sin to atone, he is, in the eyes of God, radically and authentically free or, in theological terms, redeemed. FRANCESCO EMMOLO graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan under the guidance of Carlo Sini.

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THE ANNUNCIATION

François Boespflug, Emanuela Fogliadini Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 208 AN UNPUBLISHED ANALYSIS OF A CENTRAL THEME FOR CHRISTIAN HISTORY, THROUGH THE MULTIPLE READINGS THAT WESTERN AND EASTERN ART HAS GIVEN OVER THE CENTURIES

The authors have selected a representative sample of works of art from among those they considered the most beautiful, most representative, most finely conceived and most worthy of attention and contemplation. Each of them is reproduced in full page and described in detail by a commentary text. Some of the very recent works have the merit of suggesting to the reader how the long history of the translation and transmission of the Gospel in images, at the same time faithful and creatively innovative, continues over time, far from being completed.

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The book analyzes both Eastern and Western art: 13 masterpieces illustrate the early Christian art and the icons and other 13 masterpieces illustrate the Western art. The oldest dates back to the fourth century and the most recent is from 1975. The book is an opportunity to reflect on the iconographic diversity, in the East and the West, of dealing with the same mystery: the date of birth of Christ. A new and surprising iconography of the nativity

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Edited by Roberto Cassanelli FORMAT cms. 18x24,5 PAGES 504 This volume has the dual purpose of providing the conceptual tools to critically address both the development of historical-artistic investigation methods and the increasingly urgent field of conservation and use of works of art. The prolusions dedicated to the history of art criticism and iconography and iconology refer to the first intention, which trace the fundamental lines of the development of these disciplinary areas and address the main problematic issues present in the contemporary debate. In the second part of the volume, the headwords relating to the history of art criticism are essentially, although not exclusively, dedicated to concepts, always grasped in their historical development, used to define, classify, understand and appreciate works of art. The lecture

notes on Museology and Restoration, as well as the relative lemmas of the Dictionary refer to the second intention. The items of museology/ museography describe the different types of museums and the related problems. The voices on restoration, written in close interconnection with the relative opening, address with critical but also operational acumen the methods of intervention, the materials that make up the work of art and the problems - which we could almost define epistemological - that have conditioned and they still condition evaluations on the choices to be made when intervening on a work of art. ROBERTO CASSANELLI teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan

DICTIONARY OF MINOR ARTS

ESCAPE TO EGYPT

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DICTIONARY OF ART Criticism, iconography, museology, restora-

Has the Holy Family faced, like many people of the contemporary age or past centuries, a voluntary migration and its consequent disorientation? It is the main objective of this book of art and theology, through the analysis of thirty carefully selected works of art, representative of the different interpretations of the escape to Egypt in the East and in the West.

FRANÇOIS BOESPFLUG theologian, historian of art and religions, is professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg. EMANUELA FOGLIADINI theologian and historian of Christianity, she is a professor of the History of Theology of the Christian East at the Theological Faculty of Milan and Coordinator of the Higher Institute of Religious Studies “Beato Paolo vi”.

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DICTIONARY OF FESTIVITIES Mircea Eliade, Julien Ries Technical features FORMAT cms. 18x24,5 PAGES 246 Each culture has always set the times of the year by marking it in periods and festivities that form the itinerary of the community. Festivities are the place where the sacred and the profane mix, coexist, hybridize: this

dictionary shows a map of them that covers the entire planet. Festivities have existed for as long as man has existed, prehistoric art proves it. They express the basic need to relate to the mystery and the sense of living in all communities and religions, and at the same time show the inventive and doctrinal diversity of the various cultures, from the great civilizations to the most isolated populations.

DICTIONARY OF SACRED IMAGES Pages 198

DICTIONARY OF GODS. MEDITERRANEAN, EURASIA, FAR EAST Pages 403

DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM Pages 864

DICTIONARY OF RELIGIONS OF AFRICA Pages 336

DICTIONARY OF SACRED PLACES Pages 608

DICTIONARY OF GODS. AFRICA, AMERICAS, OCEANIA Pages 304

DICTIONARY OF INDUISM Pages 752

DICTIONARY OF RELIGIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA Pages 432

DICTIONARY OF ISLAM Two volumes Pages 464 • Pages 390

DICTIONARY OF RELIGIONS OF EURASIA Pages 348

DICTIONARY OF JUDAISM Two volumes Pages 390 • Pages 474

DICTIONARY OF RELIGIONS OF THE FAR EAST Pages 684

DICTIONARY OF LIFE, DEATH AND ETERNITY Mircea Eliade, Julien Ries Technical features FORMAT cms. 18x24,5 PAGES 480 The great questions that humanity has always asked itself, while receiving different narratives among the various cultures, bring men together in a universal search for eternity and salvation. In this Dictionary, the writings of Julien Ries are collected in headwords on the theme of life, death and eternity. He traced a path from

prehistory to the great religions of the past, up to those still present: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity. These headwords are accompanied by the thematic and comparative entries drawn up by Eliade: Eternity, Birth, Afterlife, Death, Descent into Hell, Ecstasy, Free Will, Fall, Reincarnation, Guilt, Salvation, etc. The themes of life, death and the afterlife lead us to the heart of every religion and every culture, re-proposing the theme of Myth and History (this headword, written by Paul Ricoeur) of destiny and eternity.

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stants of the sacred. This dictionary of symbols makes use of the great work of Eliade and every item has the contribution of leading international experts. The man has been a creator of symbols since prehistoric times, which are a bridge with respect to his own origins, the cosmos and his destiny.

DICTIONARY OF MITH Pages 512

DICTIONARY OF RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS Pages 800

Mircea Eliade (a cura di)

MIRCEA ELIADE was the scholar who contributed most to the development of the history of religions during the 1900s. From 1957 he was professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, where in 1985 a chair was established in his honor.

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DICTIONARY OF EXPERIENCE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE RELIGIOUS LIFE • Pages 708

DICTIONARY OF RELIGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA Pages 300

DICTIONARY OF MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS • Pages 640

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International current affairs THE CHARME OF IMPERFECTION. dialogues with domenico quirico interviews, stories, documents Domenico Quirico, Tiziana Bonomo

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 196 Domenico Quirico witnessed the war from within, having been kidnapped and detained for five months in Syria. From this terrible experience he traced a path of truth that concerns us all. The charm of imperfection is a long, intense dialogue starting from the themes that characterize his extensive and painful journey as a witness: writing, war, migration, imprisonment, pain, landscape, faith. All these materials reve-

al the original perception of a narrator of the contemporary world, also returning a glimpse, personally experienced in a dramatic way, on the most relevant historical events of the last thirty years in the world of the poor, the vanquished, the humiliated and offended. DOMENICO QUIRICO Journalist, war correspondent, he has followed countless news events for his newspaper “La Stampa”, in particular from 2010 onwards the so-called “Arab Spring”.

FINGER IN THE PASTA. The mafia returns the stolen goods Carlo Barbieri

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 200 Fingers in the pasta tells the story of the cooperatives that work on the land confiscated from the Mafia bosses near Corleone and Palermo, from the beginning until today. The story of a splendid adventure that brings dignity back to the lands impoverished by the mafia practice, both in the South and in the North of Italy. In 1995 the “Libera, names and numbers against the mafias” Association

began, in Corleone, the collection of signatures for a law that required the confiscated assets of mafia bosses to be used for social purposes: the signatures collected were more than a million. CARLO BARBIERI Born in Milan in 1955, he worked for more than 43 years in Coop Italia, the National Consortium of Consumer Cooperatives belonging to Legacoop, coming into contact with the reality of the Libera Terra social cooperatives and Slow Food.

THE DREAM AND THE REASON From Harlem to Black Lives Matter Daniele Biacchessi

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 192 The dream of the African American community of wanting to free itself from the chains of racism, discrimination, repression and violence of the state apparatus. The reason put into play in the course of history by a substantial part of the black and white American people, through protest. A

century of history of protest movements fighting for civil rights and their influence on the changes in the structures of American politics. DANIELE BIACCHESSI, former editor of «Radio24 - Il Sole 24 Ore», now a permanent collaborator. In 2011 he won the prestigious Unesco Special Prize for the theatrical show Aquae Mundi, with the jazz musician Gaetano Liguori.

EPIDEMIC. Retroversions from our Middle Ages Antonio Tricomi

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 208 Modern and contemporary literature has described or imagined contagions capable of upsetting the pre-existing social order or of revealing, in a traumatic form, the actual political-cultural logics. The book analyzes some significant texts in this light and therefore explores, with particular attention, works by Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Alessandro Manzoni, M.P.

Shiel, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Raoul Maria De Angelis, Curzio Malaparte, Gesualdo Bufalino, Richard Matheson, Per Wahlöö, Jorge Amado, Guido Morselli, Primo Levi, Gabriel García Márquez, José Saramago, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Franz Kafka and Fëdor Dostoevskij. ANTONIO TRICOMI, literary and film critic, PhD in literary sciences, rhetoric and interpretation techniques, is a professor at the University of Macerata.

International current affairs 2020 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS. The environmental transition towards sustainable development Mercedes Bresso

FORMAT cms. 11x19 • PAGES 146 The future of Europe and the post-pandemic world will depend on how international organizations and individual states will be able to combine environmental issues that can no longer be avoided with the challenges of progress. It’s a period of intense debate on the ecological transition, fueled by concerns about climate change and the commitment of many young people to

the rigorous application of international agreements on the issue, as well as Europe, which has decided that the funds of the Recovery plan will be spent for almost 40% on the green agenda. MERCEDES BRESSO has taught Economics and Environmental Economics at the Turin Polytechnic and at various universities. She was president of the Province of Turin and the Piedmont Region, European Parliamentarian and President of the EU Committee of the Regions

AI WORK. the digitalization of work Edited by Sergio Bellucci

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 312 There are moments in history when the scenarios go beyond the generations. The invention of writing, the development of the scientific method, the use of electricity, are all examples of such discontinuities which, although disruptive, were not perceived as points of no return. Digital technologies represent a challenge from the

point of view of their theoretical interpretation. Is humanity facing another historical passage or what is happening today only represent the evolution of a trend that does not change the sense of the processes? Bellucci describes this shift as an epochal one from one socio-economic formation to another, a true Transition. SERGIO BELLUCCI, essayist and publicist, union leader and politician, was president of the newspaper «Liberazione».

LUCID LIFE. A dialogue on power, pandemic and liberation

Lelio Demichelis, Paolo Bartolini, Miguel Benasayag increase of the environmental crisis. The second FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 208 way instead presupposes a radical change of our way of life, recovering wisdom, kindness, poetry, We can try to get out of this social and existen- true sustainability and therefore responsibility tial disaster produced by the pandemic in two towards others, towards the biosphere and fuways. The first way - which is not an exit, but a ture generations. compulsion to repeat - is to think of returning to how we were before, therefore hedonism, LELIO DEMICHELIS is a professor of Econonightlife, consumerism, selfishness, abuse of mic Sociology at the University of Insubria and at social media, comfort zones but also a dramatic the Supsi in Lugano.

WORLD LABOR POLICY. Tackling globalization Sandro Antoniazzi

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 128 The book, addressing some of the major international problems (multinationals, migration, informal and precarious work), analyzes the reasons why today the choice of a world trade union is no longer postponable. If globalization has allowed some countries, such as China, to emerge, on the whole it has created enormous imbalances and profound injustices. If once internationalism was

a flag of the workers, today internationalization is a choice of capital: it has decided the pitch on which to play its game and the movement of labor cannot escape. This battle cannot be waged only by the top; it must be the great masses of workers that make it become a custom, a culture and a practice for a different daily union life. SANDRO ANTONIAZZI for thirty years dedicated himself to trade union activity, first in the FIM-CISL and then in the CISL.

Music

Sini - In dialogue THEY PERCEIVED THE SKY. THE BIRTH OF CULTURE

MY HISTORY OF JAZZ

Carlo Sini, Telmo Pievani

Gaetano Liguori

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 216 One of the most authoritative voices of Italian and international jazz traces the artistic evolution and the historical path of the African American music, from its origins to the present day. Through his experience as a musician and teacher, Liguori shows the thousand facets of the music that more than others marked the twentieth century. A com-

pelling narrative, exposed with a wealth of details but also with anecdotes experienced firsthand. As in a novel, the book tells the story of jazz from Africa to New Orleans, up to the radical and revolutionary waves of the 1960s. At the same time, he follows the artistic evolution of Liguori with his human and musical story, which develops from the 1960s onwards. GAETANO LIGUORI has been a protagonist on the Italian music scene, with more than three thousand concerts in Italy and abroad.

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 84 • RIGHT SOLD IN SPANISH (ONLY FOR AMERICAN CONTINENT) «They looked up and perceived the sky»: these are the words that Giambattista Vico used to describe the birth, in the ancestral inhabitants of the great forest, of a human conscience educated by language, by a sense of modesty, by obedience to the laws. How do paleoanthropology and evolutionary science tell us today about the birth of the cultural man?

Telmo Pievani and Carlo Sini, in an intense dialogue and an open discussion, retrace the theses and hypotheses of a rich and complex horizon. They do not hide the problems and agree with the need for a revision of some aspects of the philosophical and scientific common sense, in order to make the essential theme of the birth of the human spirit an object of open and concrete research. TELMO PIEVANI, is full professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Padua, where he holds the first Italian chair of Philosophy of Biological Sciences.

TREES DO NOT RESPOND Urban space and the destiny of living Carlo Sini, Gabriele Pasqui

TIME FOR A SONG. Essays on popular music Franco Fabbri

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 360 From the Neapolitan and American song of the first half of the 19th century to rock and

songwriting up to the music that is consumed today through streaming providers, an unmissable journey into the world of notes. Time for a song is a collection of essays on popular music, on which Franco Fabbri has worked in the last ten years and until very recently.

FRANCO FABBRI is known for being one of the first scholars of popular music, not only in Italy. Since the beginning of his activity as a researcher and essayist he has also continued to deal with other music, and above all with the cultured music of the twentieth century. Among the various aspects of his personality as a musician and polymorphic scholar there are those of conductor at Radio Tre, professor at the University and at the Conservatory, in addition to best known activity as singer, guitarist and author in the band called Stormy Six.

THIS IS NOT POP MUSIC Franco Fabbri

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 320 Defining music using “the contrary” is a more common practice than it seems. In the nineteenth century, a name had to be found for music that was neither art nor folk, and the concepts of popular music, pop music and

musique de variétés were born. Forty years ago, someone still called it extra-cultured music. So why not define Art music as “not pop” music? Often a change of perspective shows things in a different light. This book contains essays on music born between the beginning of the twentieth century and the early 2000s, from Mahler to Donatoni, Sciarrino and Francesconi, passing through Ives, Bartok, Weill, Šostakovich, Schonberg, Bernstein, Glass, Zappa and others.

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 160 The city has always been the place of coexistence and differences. Today the world population is increasingly urban. How can we think of the present and future of the plural city of the contemporary era? The philosopher Carlo Sini and Gabriele Pasqui,

director of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Polytechnic of Milan, talk about the paradoxes of the relationship between city and countryside, culture and nature. The problems and contradictions of an unachievable democracy explode in the degenerate places of the urban suburbs. GABRIELE PASQUI directs the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Milan Polytechnic.

THE MIRROR OF DYONISUS When a body can be called human? Carlo Sini, Carlo Alberto Redi

HARDCOVER • FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 114 The mirror of Dionysus is the meeting place between a biologist (Redi) and a philosopher (Sini), who debate and question, from different yet integrated perspectives in the common effort of seeking the truth, on the most tangible theme of life: corporeality. A common appro-

ach to the demands of life, refusing to end in mere observations on the existing (that is something that is), courageously accepting instead the challenge of questioning its meaning (that is why something is). CARLO ALBERTO REDI is an Italian academic, biologist and essayist. Full professor of Zoology at the University of Pavia and adjunct professor at the University Institute of Higher Studies.

THE CURTAIN. Theater and knowledge

Carlo Sini, Antonio Attisani

FORMAT cms. 15x23 • PAGES 112 Theatrical expression is a common trait to all cultures and peoples of the earth, a link with deep layers of our identity as human beings. There are two main directives of the dialogue between Antonio Attisani and Carlo Sini. The first is placed at the origins of the theater, its presence in every culture and in all the peoples of the earth. The second directive, on

the other hand, concerns the twentieth-century revolution of theatrical practice, starting for example with Jerzy Grotowski and his school. CARLO SINI For thirty years he has taught theoretical Philosophy at the University of Milan. Academician of the Lincei and a member of other Italian academies and cultural institutions, for more than a decade he collaborated with the cultural pages of the “Corriere della Sera”.

Philosophy REVOLUTIONARY MESSAGES Antonin Artaud, Marcello Gallucci FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 304 In a new and finally complete edition, all the texts composed by Antonin Artaud during the trip to Mexico in 1936. An edition enriched by discoveries of unpublished writings that offers a unified vision of what, to all intents and purposes, constitutes the first trip in search of theater of Western culture. Artaud was also the first to inaugurate an anthropological research path for theater purposes,

which is radicalized in the idea of coming into contact with original cultures. These “messages” are the result of a long work of comparison between the various editions in French or Spanish, which has restored a different organicity to the Artaudian themes. The reconstruction work of his time in Mexico City makes use of sources unknown in Europe. MARCELLO GALLUCCI teaches History of the Performing Arts in the Academies of Fine Arts. He studied for a long time the theater of Artaud, Salzmann, Daumal and Ljubimov.

ANTONIN ARTAUD: THE EXPLODED BODY Florinda Cambria

FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 368 No study dedicated to Antonin Artaud can aspire to ultimativeness, but only testify in what forms his body lives, dies and is reborn, returning as an interpellation addressed to the heart of Western civilization. The volume collects the twenty-year itineraries conducted by the author through the graphic body of Anto-

nin Artaud, ranging from surrealist writings to the manifesto for the creation of the “theater of cruelty”, from “revolutionary messages” (born from the encounter with extra-European traditions) to synaesthetic writing (painting, voice, writing, gesture). FLORINDA CAMBRIA taught at the University of L’Aquila and at the University of Insubria, now she is a professor of philosophy at the school of comparative psychotherapy in Genoa

THE YOUNG MARX. The root of things Giulio Marcon

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 216 FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 344 The texts of the young Marx are very topical today: they address the issues of the alienation of work and the abstract nature of citizens’ rights. They speak to us of the economic and mercantile distortion of needs, of the reification of money, of the “common goods” to be removed from the sphere of the market. In the book by Giulio Marcon,

the young Marx’s itinerary is retraced from his letters to his father and from the thesis to the economic-philosophical manuscripts of 1844 that mark the border between the youth and maturity of the German thinker. The book integrates the reconstruction of the human and intellectual maturation of the young Marx with the proposal of the most significant passages of his theoretical evolution: from his early writings to the Jewish Question, from the Critique of Hegelian philosophy of public law to the economic-philosophical manuscripts of 1844. GIULIO MARCON was born in 1959, he is an essayist and writer.

Philosophy DOSTOEVSKY. salvation on stage

Vincenzo Rizzo

FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 400 The Dostoevskian text highlights the length of life with its abysses of evil and outbursts of good, and reveals how the mystery of totality has been reduced and set aside in all its scope and intensity. A fake and accusatory factor, the idea of trial, has taken the place of life. The subject accuses himself, the other, the world and reality in a continuous judicial proceeding that seems

to have no end. But some unexpected factors deconstruct the dialectic of the court of reason. Spectrum, fear, tremor are figures that provoke the subject, introducing a new factor that cannot be manipulated and cannot be controlled. VINCENZO RIZZO is a member of the Prologos Research Group. He has made several study stays in Moscow, curating a philosophical entry for the Globalistika Encyclopedic Dictionary, promoted by the Russian Academy of Sciences and edited by A. Chumakov in 2006.

THE SQUARING OF NOTHING. Nicola Cusano and the generation of meaning Marco Maurizi

FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 184 It is perhaps no coincidence that in troubled times like these one can find comfort in picking up the pages of Nicola Cusano, a thinker of “transition” between the Middle Ages and Modernity. For Cusano, if the truth does not belong to us, we certainly belong to it. Not even those who deny it can escape this belonging; not even those who affirm it can exceed it and make it their own. Between these two excesses lie

the task, the destiny and the future of philosophy. From the comparison with Hegel to that with the recent “speculative” and “realist” turn of contemporary philosophy, the chapters of this book try to show Cusano’s thought at work, letting his ability to constantly surprise the reader but also to value its very unique perspective, in the search for meaning that involves us all. MARCO MAURIZI is a philosopher and musician. He deals with critical theory of society and dialectical thought (Cusano, Hegel, Marx, Marcuse, Adorno).

WITH THE EYES OF THE OTHER. ON TRANSLATING Stefano Arduini

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 216 The challenge of transferring complex concepts into different languages, very often fundamental to the history of cultures, has led them to define their own identity by rethinking their foundations. Translation is therefore one of the main agents in the variations of the meaning of concepts and in the change of semantic structures. The author’s work is located in a perspective that integrates cognitive linguistics, historical semantics and conceptual history, analyzing the history of

concepts from an interlingual perspective. The idea of translation as conceptual history starts from these assumptions and considers translating as the way through which concepts are transformed and continually rewritten. The hypothesis is that translation creates, constructs, innovates ways of seeing things and the resulting conceptual maps. STEFANO ARDUINI is full professor of Linguistics at the University of Rome Link Campus. He has taught General Linguistics at the University of Urbino, at the University of International Studies of Rome and at the University of Modena. He is co-director of the Nida School of Translation Studies.

Carlo Sini FROM SEMIOTIC TO TECHNOLOGY. On the way to the event

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professor of theoretical philosophy, studies the infinitely large and the infinitely small; Giuseppe Civitarese, psychoanalyst, analyzes the “beautiful” as the A multi-voiced investigation into one of the beginning of the “tremendous”, the two polamost complex and indefinable feelings: the rities of the sublime; Florinda Cambria, philosublime. The volume collects the reflections sopher, brilliantly intervenes on the soul and of some of the major exponents of contempo- the work of infinity; the philosopher Carlo theoretical philosophy is an internal partition of the whole The tale of the by Mandeville is theElio starting pointrec-The Sini, rarybees philosophical thought: Franzini, investigates the sublime as the threshold philosophical knowledge and, at the same time, is or summarizes of this volume. It deals with the issues arisen from the intor of the State University of Milan, presentsin itself of the soul; Roberta De Monticelli, professor the whole philosophy dustrial revolution, modern and from the to ecohis lectio on thecapitalism sublime from ancient post-What at the San Raffaele University in partition Milan, must theoretical philosophy do today? As antakes ethic thouphilosophy is an internal of theofwhole The bees by market. Mandeville the starting point The theoretical nomytale of of thethe globalised TheisSerra, meaning of “good modern rhetoric; Carlo philosopher ofght us “to the high seas” of Ulysses; Franco and its transformative possibility, it must reorder and rewrite philosophical knowledge and, at the same time, is Rella, or summarizes of this volume. It deals with the issues arisen from the inliving” (or buen viviranalyzes as called the indigenous of the music, thebysublime in the production philosopher of inaesthetics, explores the resopractices of truth order to build one’s own. in itself the whole philosophy dustrial revolution, modern capitalism and from the eco- the Americas) sets an urgent question about possible econoTheoretical philosophy is a practice of question without What must theoretical philosophy dothe today? Asand an ethic thouof cultured music of the twentieth century, in nances of the unlimited of soul the ofaiming nomyand of the globalised market. The meaning “good mies alternative or corrective politics ratherofthan the at answer: thus thought becomes ethical, theoretical phightanand its transformative possibility, it must and reorder and rewrite particular in the emblematic work of Edgard unlimited of things. living” (or buen vivir as called by the indigenous of the losophy an impossible rewriting of our world. capitalistic new-liberalism of nowadays. the practices of truth in order to build one’s own. Americas) sets an urgent question about possible econo- Theoretical philosophy is a practice of question without aiming mies and alternative or corrective politics rather the at CARLO answer: thus thoughtofbecomes ethical, theoretical phiCARLO SINI For thirty years he SINI has taught theoretical Philosophy at the than University of an Milan. Academician the Lincei andand a member capitalistic new-liberalism of nowadays. For thirty years he has taught theoretical Philosophy at the University of Milan. Academician of the Lincei and a member losophy an impossible rewriting of our world. of other Italian academies and cultural institutions, for more than a decade he collaborated with the cultural pages of the “Corriere dellaof other FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 216

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Sera” and still collaboratesand occasionally with occasionally the press, the RAI Radiotelevision. Among the mostthe recent published still collaborates with the and press,the theSwiss RAI and the Swiss Radiotelevision. Among mostvolumes recent volumes published by CARLO SINI by Jaca Book we mention:Jaca The space of the sign (2017), The comic and life (2017), The alphabet and the West (2016), Begin (2016). Book we mention: The space of the sign (2017), The comic and life (2017), The alphabet and the West (2016), Begin For thirty years he has taught theoretical Philosophy at the University of Milan. Academician of the Lincei and a member (2016). of other

Italian academies and cultural institutions, for more than a decade he collaborated with the cultural pages of the “Corriere della Sera” and still collaborates occasionally with the press, the RAI and the Swiss Radiotelevision. Among the most recent volumes published by Jaca Book we mention: The space of the sign (2017), The comic22 and life (2017), The alphabet and the West (2016), Begin (2016).

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Raimon Panikkar

COSMOTHEANDRIC DIALOGUE

SPACE, TIME AND SCIENCE

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A dialogue between two reference figures in music and philosophy, Battiato and Panikkar, who most expressed and reflected on the cosmotheandric reality. Raimon Panikkar’s entire thought as well as Franco Battiato’s music are moved by the urge to “hold together” the cosmos, the divine and the human: the cosmotheandric dimension. The surprising dialogue between Battiato and Panikkar, two people from different cultures, unfolds naturally, with familiarity, as it is aroused by this intrinsic and profound instance common to both. These are the crucial questions of contemporary man: sciences, techniques, markets, religions themselves seem to create walls between men. What supports and guides us? What can really put us in relationship as humans and as beings, part of nature and of an “ecosystem”? What anchors us? Without love, unfathomable “primum movens”, can we call ourselves human? Can we find our humanity only by looking at the stars?

The twelfth volume, the last in the outline of the structure of Raimon Panikkar’s Works, includes articles and books concerning science that appeared in the first period of his life. The volume consists of two sections, although its content is constantly intertwined. The first concerns time and space, an argument that underlies not only a philosophical vision of reality, but also a scientific one. Since the approach to the subject of time is different in the Eastern and Western views, the articles have been divided according to the two views. The second section concerns the westernmost conception of science. It begins with an article dedicated to Max Planck, which is followed by part of the author’s doctoral thesis in Science and ends with a leap of almost half a century with a reflection on modern science whose future lies in technology.

OPERA OMNIA Structure

A PERMANENT UNIVERSAL COUNCIL Raimon Panikkar

Technical features FORMAT cms. 15x23 PAGES 64 The Jerusalem council faced a great dispute between the early Jewish-Christians. A Church freed from the law emerged forcefully. Then the Church, previously persecuted, came to power and its ecumenical vocation was held back. We are called to live the Church as a permanent council with all religions and with the cosmos. If the Church that does not take responsibility for injustices and miseries betrays its origin. All “centrisms” must be overcome, from ethno-centrism to logo-centrism, to techno-centrism. The trinity, which is relationship, offers us a model. The council advocated by Panikkar is not an assembly of sovereign states, a contradiction in terms, but an assembly of peoples, cultures, religions that recognize themselves in relation to each other and are open to the “breath of the spirit”, despite differing beliefs and interpretations. RAIMON PANIKKAR is a universally known author, whose works are translated into a dozen languages. Participating in a plurality of traditions (Indian and European, Hindu and Christian, scientific and humanistic), he taught in Europe, India and the United States. Jaca Book, following the author’s wishes, has published his Opera Omnia and several other works under the curatorship of Milena Carrara Pavan and in collaboration with the Vivarium Foundation of Tavertet (Catalonia, Spain).

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I. Mysticism and Spirituality a) Mysticism, Fullness of Life b) Spirituality

VI. Cultures and Religions at dialogue a) Pluralism and Interculture b) Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue

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IX. Mistery and Hermeneutics a) Myth, Symbol and Ritual b) Faith, Hermeneutics and Word X. Philosophy and Theology XI. Sacred Secularity XII. Space, Time and Science

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portant and permanent constant of the sacred”. Ries traces the different expressions of mythical thought in civilizations and cultures, starting from prehistoric times. The ways in which the myth carries out its funoN oN ction ictioN ictioN on iCtion ooks in religious ooks anthropology are finally shown through the analysis of some types of Together with the symbol, myth and rite mythical narrative: the myths of the foundaunfold the forms of the story and the ritual tion of the cosmos and those concerning the action. To find the traces that homo religioLIFE SYMBOL fall of man, but also some distorted modern sus has left in history, it is necessary to unAND ETERNITY myths used toTHE justifyCOSTANTS the exercise of violenderstand the ways in which humanity’s tenIN THE GREAT OF THE ce. The second part of the volume analyzes sion towards the sacred is expressed: first of RELIGION the rite in theSACRED life of homo religiosus, defiall, mythical tales and ritual practices. The ning its characteristics in a chronological first part of the volume is dedicated to the FORMAT path that startsFORMAT from prehistory. analysis of the myth, understood as an “im-

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of dialogue will be long, made even more difficult by European colonialism. Important precursors are to be found in various periods: from humanistic figures such as Nicola Cusano to shepherds such as Newman The relationship between Christians and experience of the in sacred takes placecentury. and is defi ned The memory of the origins, the Myth, a “pen-has been The the nineteenth With the Second otherhas religions complex, starting through constantVatican elements that characterize it at dant” in the tension to the Eternal. explains withRies their marginalization in thesome Roman Council, what the precursors hoped all times and all latitudes: the firstreality. of these elements is that the costants of the Sacred are Myth,and Symbol Empire their retaliation against theatpafor became The declaration “Nothe symbol. Ries reconstructs in detail the arising of symand Rite; they are present throughout the history stra Aetate” becomes the basis for dialogue gans when Christianity became the religion bolicAges, thought in prehistory andreligions presents and the forms that of humanity and have a foot in the Eternal. between cultures and an imof the empire.WiIn the Middle the redithe symbol taken in ancient religions, in Eastern thout the Eternal, the Sacred withers: the of mythical portant part of Christians - and reamong them scovery Greek philosophy will not has soften ligions, inand Judaism, and in Islam, showing story is “forever” in those who remember it, the with polytheism great theologians, thinkers and witnesses the disagreement other in Christianity howboth it haswith always a decisive role in different sphe- culture symbol is “forever” for those whodisagreements recognize it, the become propagators of a dialogic will develop theplayed res of human ritual is the eternal itself in the same instant in whithat finds support from the Popes. Jews and with Islam and dualisms. The culture. path ch it is fulfilled without clerical hesitations.

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Julien Ries OPERA OMNIA I. CHRISTIANISM, RELIGIONS AND CULTURES vol. 1: CHRISTIANS AND RELIGIONS From the Acts of the Apostles to the II Vatican Council vol. 2: MEETING AND DIALOGUE II. THE MAN AND THE SACRED IN HUMAN HISTORY III. THE RELIGIOUS MAN AND HIS EXPERIENCE OF THE SACRED IV. THE CONSTANTS OF THE SACRED vol. 1: SYMBOL vol. 2: MYTH AND RITE V. THE SCIENCE OF RELIGIONS History, historiography, problems and methods VI. COMPARATIVE HISTORY

OF RELIGIONS AND HERMENEUTICS VII. RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT IRAN Mithraism and Mazdaism VIII. RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT NEAR EAST vol. 1: OSIRISM AND HELLENISTIC THEOLOGY vol. 2: ROYAL THEOLOGIES. Ancient Near East and Mediterranean IX. GNOSTICISM AND MANICHAEISM X. THE CHURCH OF MANI Doctrines and cult XI. COURSES vol. 1: INDUISM vol. 2: BUDDHISM vol. 3: ISLAM

JULIEN RIES was the most important historian of religions. He taught for over fourty years at the Catholic University of LeuJULIEN RIES (1920-2013) ven, where he founded the Centre d’Histoire des Religions. In 2008 he donated his library and his private archive to the Catholic was the most important historian of religions. He taught for over fourty years at the Catholic University of Leuven, where University theCentre Sacredd’Histoire Heart in Milan, thus founding the “Julien Ries” Archive for Symbolic Anthropology, directed by Silvano he foundedofthe des Religions. Petrosino. In February 2012 has been appointed Benedict XVI. of the Sacred Heart in Milan, thus In 2008 he donated his library and his privatecardinal archive by to the the Pope Catholic University founding the “Julien Ries” Archive for Symbolic Anthropology, directed by Silvano Petrosino. In February 2012 has been appointed cardinal by the Pope Benedict XVI.

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CHRISTMAS TIME

EASTER. THE HOLY WEEK

Inos Biffi, Franco Vignazia

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The intense story of Christmas time, from the Annunciation to the journey of the Three Wise Men. A journey that guides children to Christmas, remembering the characters who most closely experienced the first Christmas in history: Mary and Joseph, Zacharias, Elisabetta, the angels, the shepherds and the Three Wise Men. Born from the Gospels, this story starts from the announcement of the angel Gabriel to Mary, chosen to be the mother of the “Son of the Most High”, to commemorate Joseph’s generous yes and Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth. Franco Vignazia’s decisive stroke accompanies with his illustrations the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem in the days when Jesus is about to be born, up to the dim light that illuminates the manger in which Mary gives birth to the Child. Poor shepherds will be the first to receive the angel’s announcement: “Today a Savior is born for you in the city of David”. This birth sets the Three Wise Men on a journey, who travel from the East to Jerusalem and silently bring their gifts - gold, incense and myrrh - to Jesus.

The intense story of Holy Week, from the passion of Jesus to his death and Resurrection. A great story of faith, told to children with simplicity and accompanied by illustrations with a strong line, as strong as the events of the last days of Jesus’ life. A book that accompanies children through the gestures and the most significant moments of Holy Week, the liturgical season that opens with Palm Sunday and closes with Easter Sunday. From entering Jerusalem to the preparation of the Cenacle, to the washing of the feet, described as one of the humblest gestures that Jesus performs towards his disciples to the point of leaving them disconcerted. From the supper in which Jesus breaks the bread and drinks the wine gathered at the table for the last time with the twelve, to the night that Christ spends in prayer in the garden of olives, a night full of fear and anguish because he knows that his death is now close. The stages of the Via Crucis are narrated with great intensity and illustrated by the plates of Franco Vignazia, who with a decisive stroke emphasizes the suffering of these moments. The story ends with Jesus, now risen, appearing to the disciples on their way to Emmaus. They will know how to recognize him only when, sitting together at the table, he breaks the bread again.

INOS BIFFI Italian theologian and presbyter of the Diocese of Milan, he directs the Institute of the History of Theology in Lugano, which he founded. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and of the Pontifical Academy of Theology; he is associate doctor of the Ambrosiana Library. He also chairs the Institute for the History of Medieval Theology in Milan FRANCO VIGNAZIA is a teacher, illustrator, painter and sculptor. He has made personal exhibitions and participated in various art exhibitions all over Italy. He also designed and built stained glass windows, sculptures, paintings, triptychs and Via Crucis for numerous churches and cathedrals around the world. He has illustrated catechesis books and Educational series for various Italian publishing houses

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THE DIVINE COMEDY

EMMA AND THE MAGIC HAT

Roberto Mussapi, Giorgio Bacchin

TAnnabianca Vincenzi, Nadia Fantacci

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Dante Alighieri’s journey is presented to young readers with great clarity and simplicity. The basic idea is to return in a few pages, but without neglecting the important details, the greatness of a work that young readers will certainly appreciate during their schooling. And not only. From the terrible descent into the Underworld, to the tiring ascent to Purgatory up to the beauty of Paradise. A long path marked by memorable encounters. Charon, demonic ferryman who carries the souls of the damned; Ulysses surrounded by flames who tells his story with a faint voice; the poet Guido Cavalcanti who burns and consumes himself for the woman he loves. And finally Beatrice, enveloped in the immense light of Paradise, the woman Dante loved so much, who died very young. In the background a gloomy Florence, where clashes and riots follow one another, a city from which Dante was removed for his political activity. «In the middle of my life I got lost in a dark forest. I could no longer find the right way. Dark and terrible, a panther, a lion and lastly a wolf came to meet me ...». Dante’s journey has just begun!

Sometimes a sad story can have the most beautiful of endings, as happens in fairy tales. Emma’s story confirms this. A great message of hope for so many parents who fight hard every day for their happy ending. A story that shows young readers how a misadventure can have unexpectedly positive implications and how hospitals, often so feared by children, can also be places of welcome and play. Emma is having a nice walk in the woods with her friends. But suddenly she gets hurt: a tractor knocks her over, Emma hits her head and she can’t wake up anymore. A helicopter quickly takes her to the hospital where she undergoes an emergency operation. After her intervention, mom and dad are always next to her. Emma needs to rest for a long time, on her head they put a magical hat that has the shape of a turban and will help her heal soon! After a few days Emma finally wakes up: what a joy! She embraces mum and dad, her little brother Tommaso, her aunt, her grandfather ... and soon she will be able to see her friends again. Emma’s story is a true story. In October 2019, the little girl, who was 2 years and 8 months old at the time, was hit by a van without a handbrake in front of the kindergarten she was attending. At that precise moment, a long journey between life and death begins, marked by numerous interventions and a couple of months of hospitalization. Emma’s mother tells her story with the disarming simplicity of someone who has touched the abyss but was able to emerge stronger than before.

ROBERTO MUSSAPI Acknowledged as one of the main contemporary Italian poets (his book Gita meridiana has won the INTERNATIONAL PRIZE “MONTALE” in 1991, and is translated by Gallimard), he is author of poetry books translated into various languages. He has been writing for the stage too. Among other works, translations and essay, he is also author of a novel, Tusitala, winner of the Grinzane Cavour Prize. GIORGIO BACCHIN Professor of illustration for school publishing at the IED (European Design Institute) in Milan. In the last thirty years he has been collaborating with various educational publishers worldwide.

ANNABIANCA VINCENZI studied in Turin, graduating in Communication and Entertainment Sciences and attending the two-year master’s degree at the Holden School in Storytelling and Storytelling Techniques. She has collaborated for years with various publishing houses, specializing in the development of corporate and web marketing contents. Today she collaborates with various non-profit organizations involved in raising awareness on safety and prevention in kindergartens.

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Text by Chiara Lossani, illustrations by Bimba Landmann

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WHO WOULD NOT LIKE TO HAVE A CHATTER WITH PINOCCHIO? CHIARA LOSSANI, DIRECTOR OF TWO LIBRARIES AND AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, DID NOT RESIST THE TEMPTATION. GET READY TO LAUGH A LOT AND TO SPILL A FEW TEARS, THIS IS A PINOCCHIO YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN! BIMBA LANDMANN, AWARD-WINNING ILLUSTRATOR, USING A MIXED TECHNIQUE OF WOODS, FABRICS AND COLLAGE, SET THE EPISODES OF THE HISTORY OF PINOCCHIO IN AN ALWAYS DIFFERENT PUPPET THEATER. AND THE SHOW BEGINS... Some stories always have something to tell. Everyone knows about the adventures of Pinocchio, yet it seems that this child never ceases to amaze those in front of him. Pinocchio is a child who, discovering the world, marvels and throws himself headlong into things. He is irresponsible, stubborn, a liar. He wants to understand, he is not satisfied; when he is wrong, he starts again. And over time he also learns to love... Here it is Pinocchio himself who narrates his story, in an imaginary, naive, without self-censorship dialogue with the author.

CHIARA LOSSANI is the director of two libraries in the province of Milan, one of which is dedicated exclusively to children. She has been publishing children’s books for more than twenty years, receiving many international awards. Among the most successful titles: Vincent Van Gogh and the colors of the wind, translated into 12 languages. BIMBA LANDMANN decided to become an author and illustrator as a child, in front of the golds and blues of an ancient illuminated book. Since that day she has never stopped drawing, filling entire notebooks with images and stories and today her books have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2017 the Carlo Bilotti Aranciera Museum (Villa Borghese, Rome) dedicated her a retrospective.

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AN AMBITIOUS AND COMPLETE WORK THAT COMBINES THE CHARM AND KNOWLEDGE OF ASTRONOMY WITH THE MASTERFUL EVOCATIVE INTERPRETATION OF A GREAT ILLUSTRATOR

The encounter between astronomy and art has given birth to a work of great value, a cross-cultural journey to discover the meaning and the interpretation of the sky and constellations. A complete work that offers the evanescent magic of a shimmering sky, through the seasons and the different hemispheres. An ambitious work, because the sky, as known, is not only populated by stars… It hosts a multitude of mythological characters, dreams and poems, stories and tales… Twenty fascinating illustrations collected in a volume of a large format (24x35 cm) are accompanied by brief literary and mythological narratives or in-depth scientiﬁc information. A tribute, in a contemporary key, to the iconography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to the large atlases which have laid the foundation of the cartography of the world, from Abraham Ortelius to Gerhard Kremer, to Hevelius’s star atlas. LARA ALBANESE A physicist, writer, journalist, the founder of Googol, one of the ﬁrst Italian associations to deal with science education. She has written fourteen children’s books, that have been translated into several languages, and has won the prestigious 2013 Andersen Prize for popular science. LUCIA SCUDERI An illustrator and expert in children’s literature, image education and visual communication, she has worked with several specialized publishing houses in Italy and abroad. She won the Andersen Prize in 2004 for the best illustrated book and in 2013 as the best illustrator.

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The volume narrates the main moments of the life, and especially of the human and religious experience of Francis of Assisi. From his childhood when, as the son of the rich merchant Pietro Bernardone, took part in the cheerful gatherings of wealthy young people, to his farewell to that world and to the society of the time. Francis experiences a new beginning in the name of poverty, prayer and fraternity. The story continues with the encounter with the Pope, up to the writing of the New Rule, the meeting with Chiara d’Assisi, the trip to the sultan of Egypt to build peace, until the farewell of the beloved retreat of La Verna and his death in Assisi.

A COMPLETE ANDOF THE OLD THE GREAT TALE TEACHABLEANTHOLOGY, AND NEW TESTAMENT IN DESIGNED FOR FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS, TWENTY BOOKS, THROUGH THE THAT AN HISTORICAL, MAIN PROVIDES CHARACTERS OF THE BIBLE LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS APPROACH TO THE BIBLE A COMPLETE AND TEACHABLE COLLECTION, DESIGNED FOR THE FOUNDATIONAL STORY OF OUR FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS, CIVILIZATION AND OUR RELIGION. THAT PROVIDES THE GREAT TALEAN OFHISTORICAL, THE OLD LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS AND NEW TESTAMENT IN TWENTY APPROACH TO THETHE BIBLE BOOKS, THROUGH MAIN

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Abraham Isaac, Jacob and Joseph Moses in Egypt Moses and the Exodus Joshua and Promised Land Deborah, Gideon and Samson Samuel, Saul and David King David King Solomon Eliah and Elisha Amos, Hosea and Isaiah Jeremiah Exile and return Job and Jonah

ENRICO GALBIATI

Internationally renowned Biblical scholar, professor at the Catholic University of Milan, prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and author of many essays and Biblical philosophy texts.

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The book guides us to discover one of the most important characters of our time: a humble and discreet woman with a lively sparkling look, that has put her life at the service of the poorest. Through powerful evocative images of his spiritual grandeur, we know about little Teresa and her childhood in Albania, her passion for music and reading, the stages of her religious education and her life as a missionary, the friendship with Pope John Paul II and Lady Diana. We follow her from the travels around the world and the everyday life among the poors in Calcutta, to the victory of the Nobel Peace Prize and the extraordinary events that led to her canonization, the most important event of the Jubilee of Mercy.

PIERO VENTURA & GIAN PAOLO CESERANI They published together dozens of books, translated in 25 languages. The key to their success lies in their particular narrative technique, which creates an innovative and effective dialogue between images and text, and their extraordinary ability to reveal exceptionality in the ordinary through highly suggestive collective scenes.

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STAR, BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FANTASY

DECEMBER 1769. LEOPOLD MOZART STARTS HIS TRAVEL TO REACH ITALY WITH HIS SON WOLFGANG

It is not the first travel of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the young musician now known throughout Europe playing for princes and courts. This time, however, Leopold’s ambition is great: he wants to get for the young Wolfgang enough commissions to have a court assignment and, above all, the fame of a great composer of italian opera. It does not seem an easy trip from the beginning. Father and son have been preparing the travel for a long time: Leopold to get a dispensation from his office at the court of the archbishop of Salzburg and to find the money for the trip, Wolfgang in the meantime studied Italian, mathematics, Latin and French. The tale runs through the cold and muddy streets of Austria, Bavaria, Tyrol and finally the Alps. It meets small and big cities, cozy inns and unwelcoming hovels, famous celebrities and old acquaintances. The story is full of curious details, considerations and anecdotes drawn from the direct testimonies of letters and chronicles. A tale inspired by the life of young Mozart, joining the reality of the story to a captivating narrative that leads us to identify with the boy: not an abstract and out of time genius but a brilliant kid who, like all the kids, loves to play, joking with her sister and being full of curiosity for this trip to Italy that will be a milestone in his life. ANNA RASTELLI Born in Turin in 1955, she is pianist, Conservatory professor and musical narrator. She has held concerts and collaborated with many musical institutions including Settembre Musica, MITO, Ravenna Festival, Società dei Concerti di Bolzano. She participated as a commentator on various Radio3 and Rai2 radio broadcasts. She has published many books in the musicological field. 56

Frankie the little donkey looks puzzled at the starry sky. He is lost doesn’t know how get back toSTORY. the hut. Then, THE and MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS IN Ato FASCINATING A FUN TRIPfortuFrankie the little donkey looks puzzled at the starry sky. He is ON THEhe CHRISTMAS STAR, SCIENCE AND FANTASY nately, sees a light. It’sBETWEEN the Christmas Star, just above his hut. lost and doesn’t know how to get back to the hut. Then, fortuFrankie wants get there atpuzzled all costs. But the sky. sky He is full of danFrankie the littleto at the starry is lost nately, he sees adonkey light. looks It’s the Christmas Star, just above his hut. gers. Whatknow is thathow huge dirty, ugly andhut. frozen hard as and doesn’t to get back to the Then,snowball, fortu- nately, Frankie wants to get there at all costs. But the sky is full of dansees aA light. It’ssensational the Christmas Star, justawaits above him. his hut. Frankie aherock? truly discovery gers. What is that huge dirty, ugly and frozen snowball, hard as wants to get there at all costs. But the sky is full of dangers. What LARA ALBANESE A writer, journalist, the and founder of Googol, one of the awaits ﬁrst Italian associations with science rock? A dirty, truly sensational discovery isaphysicist, that huge ugly frozen snowball, hard ashim. a rock? toAdeal truly education. She has written fourteen children’s books, that have been translated into several languages, and sensational discovery awaits him. LARA has wonALBANESE the prestigious 2013 Andersen Prize for popular science. A physicist, writer, journalist, the founder of Googol, one of the ﬁrst Italian associations to deal with science education. She has written fourteen children’s books, that have been translated into several languages, and has won the prestigious 2013 Andersen Prize for popular science.

FEDERICO MAGGIONI 56 In his career he has collaborated Born in the province of Como in 1944, he is an illustrator and graphic artist. with numerous titles, from La Domenica del Corriere to Corriere dei Piccoli, from Corriere della Sera to Epoca, Amica, Abitare and all major publishers (Rizzoli, Mondadori , Einaudi, Feltrinelli, Zanichelli, Donzelli, Corraini, just to mention the main ones). His works were exhibited in collective and personal anthological exhibitions. He has a deep passion for music, opera and stories.

LARA ALBANESE A physicist, writer, journalist, the founder of Googol, one 57 of the first Italian associations to deal with science education. She has written fourteen children’s books, that have been translated into several languages, and has won the prestigious 2013 Andersen Prize for popular science.

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