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FICTION Roberto Andò The Empty Throne 6 Angela Bubba Malinati 7 Pietrangelo Buttafuoco The Wolf and the Moon 8 Paola Capriolo Cain 9 Ivan Cotroneo A Kiss 10 Andrea De Carlo Sheandhe 11 Federica De Paolis I Hear You 12 Luca Di Fulvio The Great Excommunicated 13 Giuseppe Di Piazza Sleepy Eyes or rather The Four Chants of Palermo 14 The Prague Cemetery 15 Mario Fortunato Allegra Street 16 Dario Franceschini Over Again 17 Fausta Garavini Diary of Solitudes 18 Massimiliano Governi Who Writes Dies 19 Francesca Lancini Without Heels 20 Vincenzo Latronico The Conspiracy of the Doves 21 Vladimir Luxuria Eldorado 22 Nada Malanima The Large House 23 Edoardo Nesi The Story of My People 24 Clara Nubile You, Like Everything You Touch 25 Pierluigi Panza Born under the Moon 26 Aurelio Picca Goodbye 27 Aleksandr Sokurov In the Center of the Ocean 28 Flavio Soriga Blackrain 29 franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 4

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NON FICTION Attilio Bolzoni Faq Mafia 32 FICTION Eleonora Duse Letters to Gabriele D'Annunzio 33 Umberto Eco Building the Enemy 34 Diego Fusaro Minimum Marketaly 35 Enzo Golino Beyond Literature 36 Luca Guadagnino Gastronomical Journey Through 37 Giordano Bruno Guerri The Italians under the Church 38 Stefano Livadiotti In the Name of God 39 Benito Mussolini Mussolini’s Diaries (presumed) 1936 volume 3 40 Umberto Pasti Gardens and non-Gardens 41 Rossana Rossanda Visions 42 Vittorio Sgarbi Rome: from Renaissance to the Present Day 43 Vittorio Sgarbi Full of Grace 44 Luca Telese – Alessandro Sallusti Berlusconeide 45

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Umberto Eco History of Beauty 49 Umberto Eco History of Ugliness 49 Umberto Eco The Infinity of List 50 Andrea Mantegna The Eternal Spouses 51 Giovanni Reale – Elisabetta Sgarbi Trilogy on the Sacred Sculpture 52

CLASSIC AUTHORS Cesare Brandi Journeys and Literary Writings 55 Diaries, vol. I and II 56 Antonio Pizzuto Dolls Repaired Here 57 Giovanni Testori Works, vol.I, II, III 58 franc_2011_Rights 23-09-2011 18:37 Pagina 6

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ROBERTO ANDÒ NEW TITLE ANGELA BUBBA NEW TITLE 2012 2012 The Empty Throne Malinati Il trono vuoto A novel that recounts the farse of politics when the party leaders are inexistent and anyone can A combination of Acciaio and Gomorra, another young talent of Italian fiction denounces her take their place world – a Southern Italy that could be different if someone talked about it The leader of the main opposion party, Salvatore Olivieri, fifty years old, tired out by the neg- A market: the one at Rosarno, where a thousand tensions have preceded and “warned”those ative opinion polls and by some judiciary problems, decides one day to hook it: he disap- who should have understood and didn’t. A hospital, also in , where various women pears without telling anyone (not even his wife or assistant), leaving just a short note of reas- have been abandoned in the corridor because those responsible for the stretchers had fin- surance. He anonymously travels to Paris, to Danielle, an actress with whom he had had a ished their shift. A factory, typical of the industrialisation of the South, full of illegalities and brief affair twenty years before, but meanwhile, in Italy, his nearest and dearest are trying to pollution. Crotone, a city that symbolises the whole region of Calabria, lacking in bookshops find a solution to the very serious problem that Salvatore’s disappearance has caused the and where one of the few booksellers confuses Agota Kristof and Agatha Christie. party. His wife and spokesperson turn to his twin brother, Ernani, a professor of philosophy And finally Rome, where the author studies and where she sees the protests against the con- and ex-psychiatric patient. He’s the only one that could know where Salvatore is. In actual dition of women in Iran, without thinking of those secret acts of violence and the inferiority fact, Ernani provides no clues but takes over his absent brother’s position in all naturalness: declared and introjected by so many women in Southern Italy. he gives interviews, holds rallies, presides over meetings – and, obviously, revolutionises the Stories about Italy, from a South that is loved and lived, and for this reason – for love – party’s politicies. But this is not necessarily harmful, on the contrary... denounced.

ROBERTO ANDò, BESIDES HIS STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, HAS The youngest candidate for the 2010 Strega Prize COLLABORATED WITH SUCH GIANTS OF CINEMA AS FRANCESCO ROSI, FEDERICO FELLINI, MICHAEL CIMINO AND FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA. BESIDES CINEMA, HE HAS DIRECTED FOR THEATRE AND OPERA, AND MULTIMEDIA, DIRECTING THE ORESTIADI, AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL HELD ANNUALLY AT GIBELLINA, ANGELA BUBBA WAS BORN IN MESORACA, IN THE SICILY, AND THE FESTIVAL NOVECENTO AT PALERMO. AMONG PROVINCE OF CROTONE, IN 1989. SHE ATTENDED HIS MOST IMPORTANT SHOWS: LA FORESTA-RADICE-LABIRINTO, CLASSIC HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN THE FACULTY OF DEVELOPED FROM AN UNPUBLISHED TEXT ENTRUSTED TO HIM CLASSIC LETTERS AT THE UNIVERSITÀ LA SAPIENZA BY , WITH SCENES BY RENATO GUTTUSO; LA IN ROME.DESPITE BEING SO YOUNG SHE GAINED SABBIA DEL SONNO, ACTION FOR MUSIC AND FILM WITH MUSIC IMPORTANT RECOGNITION FROM THE CRITICS: HER BY LUCIANO BERIO AND MARCO BETTA; THE MULTIMEDIA SHORT STORY “IL MATRIMONIO” WON HER THE 2006 OPERA FRAMMENTI SULL’APOCALISSE, INTERPRETED BY MONI PREMIO VERGA, AND WITH “QUARTO DI LUNA” SHE OVADIA. IN 1999 HE DIRECTED LE MARTYRE DE SAINT CAME SECOND IN THE 2007 PREMIO CAMPIELLO SéBASTIEN BY GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO AND CLAUDE DEBUSSY AT THE GIOVANI AND AGAIN SECOND IN THE 2008 PREMIO TEATRO MASSIMO, PALERMO. IN THE SAME YEAR HE REAL- ITALO CALVINO. MALINATI IS HER SECOND NOVEL; Pages: 180 Pages: 180 IZED THE FILM IL MANOSCRITTO DEL PRINCIPE PRODUCED BY THE FIRST, LACASA, WAS PUBLISHED IN 2009 BY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE. HIS SECOND FILM, SOTTO FALSO Publication: January 2012 ELLIOT, AND WAS ONE OF THE TWELVE FINALISTS OF Publication: January 2012 NOME, STARRING DANIEL AUTEUIL, IS DATED 2002. Price: € TBD THE 2010 STREGA PRIZE. Price: € 11,00

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PIETRANGELO BUTTAFUOCO NEW TITLE PAOLA CAPRIOLO NEW TITLE 2011 2012 The Wolf and the Moon Cain Il lupo e la luna Caino

In Sicilian tradition the “cunti” were the fairy stories told by the elderly in the evening, with As in a piece of crime news, a disappearance, a suicide, a wealthy couple, a poor, devout, immi- the children arranged in a circle. Modern interpreter of this tradition, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco grant maid with psychic powers: a mysterious picture to reconstruct in order to find the culprit – tells the story of the life of Scipione il Cicalazadé, known in the Orient as Sinan Pascià and in if there is one...... the West, in his home town of Messina, as the Rinnegato (the Renegade). Captured by the Milagro, an immigrant who works in the house of a very wealthy couple, has disappeared. Pirates of Dragut at the age of twelve, Scipione is educated at the court of the Sultan, The Police investigate and, very soon, question her employers. But on arriving at the house, becomes the chosen one and is, therefore, nominated Commander of the Ottoman Armies all they find is the body of the owner who has hanged himself for no apparent reason; on the on sea and land. Midst battles, conquests, booties and glory, Sinan Pascià harbours in his computer screen, in the form of a farewell note, is a phrase from Genesis about Cain and heart nostalgia for his homeland, and for this reason he returns to the Long Land – Italy – in Abel. The Police try to reconstruct the incident. They discover that Milagro was a tormented Calabria and then Sicily. At Palermo, Scipione glimpses the other half of his destiny: a lady girl, afflicted by a sense of guilt for mysterious events that had happened to her that she did made Moon who engraves on his heart a graft from which love will germinate. But the bat- not want to confess to anyone. Her personality had intrigued Max, the man she worked for, tle cannot wait: Scipione must hoist the sails and head towards Messina where his brother is a successful marketing director, who had taken her side when his wife criticised her, who had ready to give the order to fire on him. So it’s battle – a long, crude battle between brothers. talked to her and realized that she talked to herself believing she was talking to someone. But an angry “Hooray!” salutes Scipione’s victory, and so he can make his way back up the Shortly before his wife and son went away on holiday, Max had discovered that Milagro was secret heart of Sicily and return, at last, to the arms of the Lady made Moon. And live with her even able to levitate – like a saint, or someone possessed. One evening, after following her forever: the Wolf and the Moon is a “cunto” but it’s also a true story. to a mass where they listened to a sermon about Cain and Abel, which upset her, and hav- ing witnessed Milagro being attacked in a park and done nothing to help her, Max lost it. Then the tragedy: Max kills her, Max’s wife hides the corpse but the next day the man can’t stand the sense of guilt and kills himself.

Rights of her previous novel Il pianista muto have been sold to: Germany (Elke Heidenreich); Russia (Text Publishers)

PIETRANGELO BUTTAFUOCO IS A JOURNALIST FOR “PANORAMA”, AND WORKED FOR “IL FOGLIO”. PAOLA CAPRIOLO WAS BORN IN IN 1962. AUTHOR OF FOGLI CONSANGUINEI (AR, 2001), SHE CONTRIBUTES TO THE CULTURAL PAGES LE UOVA DEL DRAGO (MONDADORI, 2005), L’U LTIMA OF “CORRIERE DELLA SERA” ANDISALSO Pages: 280 Pages: 180 DEL DIAVOLO (MONDADORI, 2008), CABARET A TRANSLATOR. AMONG HER BOOKS: LA GRANDE VOLTAIRE (BOMPIANI, 2008) AND FIMMINI Publication: September 2011 EULALIA, IL DOPPIO REGNO, LA SPETTATRICE, Publication: January 2012 (MONDADORI, 2009). Price: € 17,50 CON I MIEI MILLE OCCHI AND IL PIANISTA MUTO. Price: € 16,00

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IVAN COTRONEO ANDREA DE CARLO A Kiss Sheandhe Un bacio Leielui

A psychological thriller that is a vibrant indictment against the fear we all harbour for the Other. Leielui (Sheandhe) is a love story. It takes place during a very hot summer in Milan, Liguria, the South of France and Vancouver, Canada. The “lei” is Clare Moletto, an American who has Luca, Laura, Antonio. These are the protagonists of a novel told through three voices, narrat- been living in Italy for some years and works at the call centre of a large insurance company. ing a cruel tale of love, hate and violence. A difficult, introvert sixteen-year-old boy who The “lui” is Daniel Deserti, author of the international bestseller Lo sguardo della lepre and arrives in a small town in the provinces. A weary, forty-year-old school mistress, who anx- other less successful novels. One day, in the pouring rain, Daniel, who is going through a cre- iously urges her students to face up to life with the courage that she herself is lacking. A ative crisis and is completely drunk, drives into the car in which Clare is travelling with her young man who has grown up too fast, incapable of relating to others and educated in vio- fiancé. The result of this potentially catastrophic incident is the birth of a relationship that lence. At the centre, a gun, a shot fired at the temple in a school classroom, and perhaps a goes from hostility to diffidence to curiosity to uncontrollable attraction. I wanted to relate kiss. One single, simple, kiss, capable of unleashing madness. A psychological thriller, jigsaw the reasons, doubts and profound contradictions that a man and a woman are faced with puzzle of sentiments, dramatic account of an impossible love, constructed like a time-bomb when they happen to fall in love for real. The challenge was to talk about it as honestly as dense with revelations, Un Bacio will conquer readers for the force of the story and a writing possible and give the same importance to both protagonists – the man and the woman. So, style capable of touching, moving and disturbing. in alternating chapters, the story is told from both their viewpoints: the perspective changes, Rights sold to: Spain – Spanish and Catalan (Libros del silencio) as do the perceptions, the sentiments involved and the questions unresolved. I think that for both male and female readers it is almost impossible not to relate to one of the two charac- La kryptonite nella borsa In November 2011 release of the film adapted from the novel ters, and, in some cases, this may provoke a strange alternation of identification and anger. directed by the same Ivan Cotroneo. It happened to me, with “lei” and with “lui”. IVAN COTRONEO WAS BORN IN NAPLES IN 1968. Andrea De Carlo HE IS THE ITALIAN TRANSLATOR OF MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM AND HANIF KUREISHI. BOMPIANI HAS ALREADY PUB- The author is translated in: LISHED IL PICCOLO LIBRO DELLA RABBIA AND THE NOVELS Albania, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China complex, Croatia, Finland, Denmark, France, IL RE DEL MONDO,CRONACA DI UN DISAMORE AND LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA, ALL RE-PRINTED IN VARIOUS Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, EDITIONS. LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA IS SHORTLY TO Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, US BECOME A FILM PRODUCED BY INDIGO FILM (IL DIVO, LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO) AND DIRECTED BY COTRONEO HIMSELF. IVAN COTRONEO ALSO WRITES FOR CINEMA AND JUST THIS LAST YEAR HE SIGNED THE SCREENPLAYS OF LA PRIMA LINEA BY RENATO DE MARIA, IO SONO AMORE BY ANDREA DE CARLO WAS BORN IN MILAN.HE HAS LUCA GUADAGNINO AND MINE VAGANTI BY FERZAN OZPETEK. WRITTEN: TRENO DI PANNA,UCCELLI DA GABBIA E DA HIS POPULARITY IS ALSO LINKED TO TUTTI PAZZI PER VOLIERA,MACNO,YUCATAN,DUE DI DUE,TECNICHE Pages: 148 Pages: 574 AMORE, AN ITALIAN TV SERIES HE CONCEIVED, LOVED BY DI SEDUZIONE,ARCODAMORE,UTO,DI NOI TRE, Publication: October 2010 PUBLIC AND CRITICS, THE FIRST ITALIAN TV PRODUCTION Publication: October 2010 NEL MOMENTO,PURA VITA,I VERI NOMI,GIRO DI TO BE SOLD IN TWELVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. Price: € 11,00 VENTO,MARE DELLE VERITÀ AND DURANTE. Price: € 20,00

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FEDERICA DE PAOLIS LUCA DI FULVIO I Hear You The Great Excommunicated Ti ascolto Il grande scomunicato

Between comedy of errors and kitchen sink drama, the reconstruction of the lives of others, on Like a modern fairy tale: in a nowhen time, in a nowhere place, there once lived twenty-four the phone. Between apartments. half-wits and the most wicked of dictators,the Great Excommunicated,with an infamous face and fine head: an erring clergyman of monstrous evil. He is the protagonist of this cleverly Diego Tribeca, a rootless forty-year-old who has been travelling the world for years, writing spun tale by Luca Di Fulvio. A human drama that starts off with a clear image: the pure half- tourist guides for Lonely Planet, is obliged to return to Italy for a surgical operation. He set- wits (twelve couples, men and women in equal number) – live outside the world, in an tles into the apartment left vacant by his elder sister Sonia, who’s living in New York with her unknown desert. It’s impossible not to feel affection for the characters of this fairy tale, with husband. Diego discovers that the house phone has an inexplicable defect – when it rings, their expressive names: LaFemmina (TheFemale), Rubezia (Rubicia), Mastro Tagliabue (Master Diego hears the conversations of the other phones in the block. Oxcutter), Luis Veloce (Speedy Louis), Augustin della Battaglia (Augustin of the Battle). A Instead of getting the phone repaired, Diego starts listening to the phone calls of the other grotesque portrait and metamorphosis. They all take action, they clash, they join forces – in residents and gradually becomes totally hooked: he falls in love with one of them, saves the rises and falls of the events of a lifetime in an imaginary (but almost credible) State, as if another from anorexia, flees with a third after learning some disturbing secrets about his in a dream.The life of the Great Excommunicated One, of course. Deus ex machina, alpha and own family... omega, the protagonist you won’t forget and who, like it or not, resembles ourselves a little. Rights sold to: Rights of previous novels sold to: France (Grasset), Germany (Knaus Verlag), Spain (Siruela), UK (Troubador) France (Gallimard, Albin Michel, Le Club); Germany (Luebbe, Club Première); Japan (Hayakawa); the Netherlands (Karakter); Poland (Proszynski i S-ka); Russia (Azbooka); Serbia (Laguna); Spain (Grijalbo); UK (Bitter Lemon Press)

LUCA DI FULVIO WAS BORN IN 1957 IN ROME WHERE HE STILL LIVES AND WORKS. AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE “SILVIO D’AMICO” ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART, HE JOINED THE AMERICAN THEATRE COMMUNITY “LIVING THEATRE”. HE SUBSEQUENTLY WORKED WITH ANDREJ WAIDA, MARIO MARANZANA AND PINO QUARTULLO AND REALIZED A NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL THEATRI- CAL WORKS. IN 1966 HE WROTE HIS FIRST NOVEL ZELTER (ZELIG- BALDINI & CASTOLDI) FOLLOWED BY THE DARK NOVEL FEDERICA DE PAOLIS, AFTER WRITING FILM REVIEWS L’IMPAGLIATORE (MURSIA 2000, EINAUDI 2004) WHICH BECAME A FOR SPECIALISED MAGAZINES AND DIALOGUES FILM DIRECTED BY EROS PUGLIELLI ENTITLED OCCHI DI CRISTALLO, FOR THE FILM DUBBING, BEGAN, IN 2008, TEACHING AND DOVER BEACH (MURSIA, 2002). IN 2006 HE PUBLISHED THE SCREENWRITING AT THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF DESIGN.SHE ALSO WRITES ON THE SUNDAY NOVEL LA SCALA DI DIONISIO (MONDADORI) WHOSE FILM RIGHTS Pages: 240 Pages: 240 SUPPLEMENT OF “LIBERAZIONE” AND HAS PUBLISHED WERE ACQUIRED BY GABRIELE SALVATORES, AND IN 2008 LA GANG LASCIAMI ANDARE (2006) AND VIA DI QUI (2008) Publication: January 2011 DEI SOGNI (MONDADORI),THE NOVEL WHICH MARKS HIS MOVING Publication: March 2010 WITH FAZI PUBLISHERS. Price: € 14,00 AWAY FROM NOIR AND THRILLER FICTION. Price: € 16,50

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NEW TITLE 2012 GIUSEPPE DI PIAZZA UMBERTO ECO Sleepy Eyes or rather The Four Chants of Palermo The Prague Cemetery Occhi di sonno ovvero I quattro canti di Palermo Il cimitero di Praga Four short stories set in Palermo in the early ‘80s, protagonist being a young journalist 30 years after The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco comes back with an historical novel about and the subject cases of Mafia and affairs of the heart. the intrigues of politics and the power of human intelligence. Enrolled by secret services all across Europe, a cynical falsifier weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues, attacks, which will actually decide the historical and political course in the Old Continent. A novel on the most secret and unavowable depths of the politics of a XIX cen- tury, throwing a disturbing light on the times we live in.

Rights sold to: HE BEGAN HIS CAREER IN 1979 WITH THE PALERMO DAILY PAPER L’ORA, DIRECTED AT THAT TIME BY Dituria (Albania); Record (Brazil); Bard (Bulgaria); Shanghai Translation P. House NICOLA CATTEDRA.HE HAS BEEN A PROFESSIONAL (China simplex); Mladinska Knjiga (Croatia); Argo (Czech Republic); Forum Forlaget JOURNALIST SINCE 1984, THE YEAR HE MOVED TO (Danmark); Varrak (Estonia); Wsoy (Finland); Grasset (France); Diogene (Georgia); ROME TO WORK FOR THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY Hanser (Germany); Psichogios (Greece); Europa (Hungary); Kinneret (Israel); MAGAZINE COOPERAZIONE.IN 1985 HE PARTICIPATED Tokyo Sogensha (Japan); The Open Book (Korea); Janis Roze (Latvia); Dar Al Kitab IN THE BIRTH OF THE NEWSPAPER REPORTER, DIRECTED BY ENRICO DEAGLIO.IN 1986 HE MOVED TO (Lebanon); Tyto Alba (Lithuania); Tabernakul( Macedonia); Prometheus (Netherland); IL MESSAGGERO, WHERE HE STAYED FOR FIFTEEN Tiden (Norway); Noir sur Blanc (Poland); Gradiva (Portugal); Polirom (Rumania); YEARS, FIRST AS CHIEF REPORTER, THEN CHIEF EDITOR Corpus (Russia); Plato (Serbia); Slovart (Slovak Republic); Mladinska Knjiga (Slovenia); OF INTERNAL AND JUDICIARY AFFAIRS, COLUMNIST R.H. Mondadori (Spain – Castilian); R.H. Mondadori (Spain – Catalan); Bromberg (Sweden); AND, FINALLY, CENTRAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.IN 2000 HE MOVED TO MILAN AS VICE-DIRECTOR OF THE Crown (Taiwan); Dogan (Turkey); Folio (Ucraine); Secker (UK); Houghton Mifflin (USA); MULTIMEDIALITY OF RCS MEDIAGROUP, OF WHICH Nha Nam Publishing (Vietnam) PIETRO CALABRESE IS RESPONSIBLE.HE THEN BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE CONTENT OF HDPNET, THE MULTIMEDIAL COMPANY OF THE GROUP.IN 2002 HE WAS ENTRUSTED THE DIRECTION OF AGR, THE RADIO AND DIGITAL PRESS AGENCY OF RCS. IN 2003 HE BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE MAX.IN SEPTEMBER 2007 HE MOVED OVER TO DIRECT THE WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO CORRIERE DELLA SERA, THAT, IN NOVEMBER 2009, RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL NAME,SETTE. Pages: 224 Pages: 520 HE TEACHES AT THE MASTER COURSE IN JOURNALISM AT THE IULM (FREE UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND Publication: January 2012 Publication: October 2010 COMMUNICATION) IN MILAN. Price: € 17,00 Price: € 19,50

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MARIO FORTUNATO DARIO FRANCESCHINI Allegra Street Over Again Daccapo

A Comedy about Living as a Couple. Like a Woody Allen film – the secrets, lies and paradoxes of When a son is not at all suspicious about his father and mother’s private life. A provocative that time-bomb mechanism that is the situation of two people who share their lives. novel by Dario Franceschini What happens when a well-to-do, respectable Italian diplomat in London, whose marriage is Iacopo Dalla Libera is a solicitor in a small town in the province of Mantua. He is a distin- rather dull, suddenly, during a massage, discovers homosexual tendencies he never dreamt guished gentleman, known by everyone, well-to-do, married to a woman whom he does not he had? particularly care for, with a father who was also a solicitor but is now elderly and dying. And what happens when his equally respectable wife,Paula,falls in love with a young macho, Indeed, on his death-bed, Iacopo’s father confesses to having had 52 other children with the tosses everything to the wind and runs off with him? same number of prostitutes. He explains how he always kept a count of them and sent them In the London district of Montrose Place, as in the most typical Anglo-Saxon comedies, lies money for many years. Now he is asking his son to trace them so he can see them all once and secrets interweave giving life to a an amusing, bitter-sweet novel that is both funny and more before it’s too late. So begins Iacopo’s odyssey. Completely dazed, he goes to in ruthless. search of some prostitutes and, at the first address he visits, he meets the beautiful young Mila who immediately seduces him. Mila knows all about the man who sowed wild oats far An author well-known in the media (editorialist of “L’Espresso” and foreign collaborator for and wide and she slowly leads Iacopo into a world of folly and passion that overwhelms his the BBC). own family and his very wife’s identity... Everyone, it seems, has hidden secrets and one by A humourous woman’s novel that isn’t only for women. one Iacopo discovers them.There’s no going back when you find out certain truths. One of the Italian writers best appreciated by the critics: Finalist in the 2007 Strega Prize A name well-known by the Italian people and media for his role in the Democratic Party (PD) Winner of the 2007 Mondello and Super Mondello Prizes, Palermo A writer of quality whose books have been translated into French by Gallimard A story of passion and folly that will make both men and women readers reflect on the secrets that lie within our daily lives and on the contradictions of our respectability Rights of his previous novel sold to: MARIO FORTUNATO HAS PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING BOOKS: France (Gallimard) LUOGHI NATURALI (TASCABILI BOMPIANI), IL PRIMO CIELO, IMMIGRATO (TOGETHER WITH SALAH METHNANI,TASCABILI DARIO FRANCESCHINI WAS BORN IN FERRARA IN 1958. BOMPIANI), SANGUE, L’ARTE DI PERDERE PESO, AMORE, ROMANZI BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED HIS NOVELS NELLE VENE E ALTRE SCOPERTE, IL PRIMO CIELO, SANGUE, AND L’AMORE QUELL’ACQUA D’ARGENTO (2006) AND LA FOLLIA IMPROVVISA RIMANE E QUELLI CHE AMI NON MUOIONO (2008). HIS NOVEL I DI IGNAZIO RANDO (2007) AS WELL AS THE COLLECTION OF HIS GIORNI INNOCENTI DELLA GUERRA (BOMPIANI 2007,TASCABILI ELECTORAL SPEECHES HELD IN 2009, IN 10 PAROLE. BOMPIANI 2008) WAS FINALIST IN THE 2007 STREGA PRIZE Pages: 224 HE IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN. A LAWYER AND Pages: 220 AND WINNER OF THE 2007 MONDELLO AND SUPER Publication: March 2011 A POLITICIAN, FROM FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 2009 HE WAS Publication: May 2011 MONDELLO PRIZE, PALERMO. Price: € 16,50 THE NATIONAL SECRETARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Price: € 15,00

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ASSIMILIANO OVERNI NEW TITLE FAUSTA GARAVINI M G 2011 Diary of Solitude Who Writes Dies Diario delle solitudini Chi scrive muore

The story of a man who finds the strength to face the future in solitude and recollection. Gasping, on the brink of a never-ending explosion, day after day, lost in a vortex of hunted- The case of a journalist who has lost almost everything for the sake of truth. down days and short, decayed breaths, in the gleaming tailspin of speeding cars their doors slamming, of assaults, prisoner inside anonymous, weightless buildings, so long, so big, per- A journalist is the victim of a serious accident that leaves him permanently disfigured. To haps inexistent, dead inside, dead before him.Disillusioned, sad, angry, lacerated, with a com- regain his equilibrium he seeks refuge in a house near a lagoon in total isolation except for panion and a daughter, that’s how the writer imagines him. And inexorably caught up in the the occasional company of Norberto, the person who brings his supplies. Soon the large affairs of another man, chief escort – Angelo – a talking name, a livid though loyal messen- house he is staying in begins to rouse his curiosity and, from the clues that surround him ger of a world to be both fought and protected, of an intimacy to live from afar and an every- (paintings, furniture) he reconstructs the life of the inhabitants, scarred by wars and day life inaccessible to the writer.The metres he walks are nothing but the corrupt dust of a redeemed through art. In particular, he recomposes the lives of Rodolfo and Gualtiero, the condemned man, of a live man already putrified, an eagle with an instinct more in the earth former a businessman, the latter an artist – both protagonists of the most significant events than in the sky. Like Angelo after all, like the ‘Camorristi’ who persecute him, like every other of the first half of the 1900s in Italy (the war in Libya, World War I...) and short-lived but pas- nature and flesh.There’s no hope in life, only in writing.Those who read, that which is read – sionate love affairs. By reconstructing the lives of his predecessors in the house, the journal- they are saved; the writer is not. All the rest is a trap, blackmail, persecution. ist also manages to recall his own recent past: the accident, the woman who was with him, the bomb that hit them while they were making a reportage.

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MASSIMILIANO GOVERNI WAS BORN AND LIVES IN ROME.BALDINI & CASTOLDI PUBLISHED IL CALCIATORE (1995). EINAUDI STILE LIBERO L’UOMO CHE BRUCIA (2000) E PARASSITI (2005). ONE OF HIS SHORT STO- RIES APPEARED IN THE ANTHOLOGY GIOVENTÙ CANNI- BALE (1996). AS EDITOR OF ITALIAN FICTION HE FAUSTA GARAVINI, SPECIALIST IN FRENCH STUDIES WORKED FOR FAZI PUBLISHERS FROM 2004 TO Pages: 280 Pages: 224 AND SCHOLAR OF PROVENÇAL LITERATURE, HAS ALSO 2007. SINCE 2008 HE HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR STUDIED MONTAIGNE,MOLIÈRE,BOILEAU Publication: January 2011 THE SERIES HEROES OF ITALIAN WRITERS AT ELLIOT Publication: September 2011 AND LA FONTAINE. Price: € 16,50 EDITIONS. Price: € 14,00

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FRANCESCA LANCINI VINCENZO LATRONICO Without Heels The Conspiracy of the Doves Senza tacchi La cospirazione delle colombe A contemporary coming-of-age novel, a cross between Catcher in the Rye and The Devil wears “400 breathtaking pages: an immense and harsh portrait of contemporary society. […] With extraor- Prada. dinary skill, Latronico, a new Dos Passos, successfully portrays the crisis of a civilization, the brutality Sofia is twenty-five. She is Milanese, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois family, the sister of of finance, the verminous obsession for money, the loneliness of contemporary love.” Il Sole 24 Ore a super-intelligent, psychologically unstable fifteen-year-old (Ginevra), and has a degree in We struggle as hard as we can to pursue success, wealth, happiness. But what can we do when tal- Letters. Although books are her universe, she works as a model. That way she earns a lot of ent just isn't enough and fair play seems to lead nowhere? How many failures does it take to change money and travels between Milan, Miami and Barcellona. a dove into a hawk? The Conspiracy of Doves follows two friends through this transformation. Alfre- As she skips from one love affair to another, she tries to escape from a reality which does not do Cannella is heir to a prominent Venetian real estate developer; Donka Berati is an Albanian satisfy her – allergic as she is to human beings – in search of a place in the sun in that glit- orphan. Both Harvard dropouts, they are the best in their class at Italy’s leading business university. tering yet cynical world of fashion and appearances. Alfredo’s family has made a big donation to the university; Donka is there on a scholarship. Yet they But peace does not come, at least not in the fashion world... become close friends, united in their quest to get all they feel that they deserve. Their friendship A merciless,moving and enthralling portrait of a young woman’s adventures in her search for grows out of their mutual successes, but their successes, in turn, start to compromise everything herself, finding her way in a reality seeming to row against every form of self-knowledge. else. Donka, a promising scholar, soon lands on the tenure track at a prestigious business school. Alfredo enters his father’s real estate business where, after a string of cunning investments, he bribes Rights sold to: his way to a huge government contract. Alfredo, however, ultimately finds himself on the wrong side Bulgaria (Scalino) of the deal, while Donka’s academic hopes end abruptly when his professor and mentor passes away. Still, the pair’s careers proceed, bolstered by ambition and by the reappearance of Drina, Donka’s fiancée at Harvard, and now Alfredo’s. But as the stakes rise, and morally right decisions don’t seem to work, their only chances seem to lie in the wrong ones. In his critically acclaimed sec- ond novel, 27-year-old Vincenzo Latronico masterfully summons a cast of human, complex and morally ambiguous characters, crafting a breathtaking plot around their deep passions – love, envy, ambition – and the justifications they offer for betraying those who trust them. FRANCESCA LANCINI, FORMER MODEL, WAS BORN IN BRESCIA IN 1983 BUT FOR WORK NOW LIVES Film rights optioned BETWEEN MILAN AND ROME.SHE HAS MODELLED Rights of his previous novel sold to: Greece (Modern Times) FOR THIERRY MUGLER,MARIELLA BURANI,GATTINONI AND ROCCO BAROCCO.SHE HAS WORKED VINCENZO LATRONICO WAS BORN IN ROME IN 1984. IN TELEVISION, ON RAI 2 IN QUELLI CHE IL CALCIO HIS PRIZE-WINNING FIRST NOVEL, GYMNASTICS COMPERED BY SIMONA VENTURA, ON RAI 1 & REVOLUTIONS, WAS PUBLISHED BY BOMPIANI FOR THE 2006 FESTIVAL OF SANREMO AND IN 2008. HIS ART CRITICISM HAS APPEARED IN Pages: 240 Pages: 387 ON CANALE 5 IN THE TV-FILM MADAME WITH NANCY “FRIEZE”, “ D OMUS” AND “ROLLING STONE”, AND HAS BRILLI.SHE ALSO ACTED ALONGSIDE GEORGE Publication: January 2011 BEEN PUBLISHED IN ITALIAN,ENGLISH,GERMAN, Publication: May2011 CLOONEY IN THE FILM OCEAN’S TWELVE. Price: € 14,00 FINNISH AND SPANISH. Price: € 15,00

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VLADIMIR LUXURIA NADA MALANIMA NEW TITLE 2012 Eldorado The Large House La grande casa For an elderly, self-deprecating homosexual life has a lot of surprises in store Raffaele is an ageing,gay tv and theatre actor from Foggia in South Italy who moved to Milan The novel opens in 2054 and tells the story of three women whose lives are closely inter- many years ago. One evening he gives a lift to a youth who looks like he’s going to seduce twined:the first is Emilia,mad about dancing,exploited by the star system and then left alone him but as soon as they get into the suburbs the boy pulls out a knife and robs him.The fear with an illegitimate daughter; the second is Mrs Richter,a wealthy German widow who is ren- and dejection he feels when faced with such violence starts him reminiscing and brings to ovating a large house in Italy purely for love; the third is Gemma, an elderly nun whose past mind his long-forgotten friendship with Michele and the journey he made before World War is clouded by depression. In the large house the three women rediscover themselves and II from Puglia to Berlin where he got a job as a singer in drag, in a gay club called ‘Eldorado’ their serenity... together with two ‘sisters’ – Franz and Karl. One night the SS invaded the club and arrested everyone. Raffaele was sent back to Italy and the Germans, including Franz and Karl, were deported. Now, after many decades, the past seems to have caught up with him to tie up the loose ends, not only in his memory but also his life. Luxuria is back with a brilliant novel full of irony A book-report on one of the victims of the Holocaust: homosexuals Favole non dette sold 20,000 copies obtaining great critical acclaim

VLADIMIR LUXURIA, ARTIST AND EX-PARLIAMENTARIAN, BORN IN FOGGIA IN 1965 AS VLADIMIRO GUADAGNO, IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS TRANSGENDERS IN ITALY.A DEGREE IN LANGUAGES WITH HONOURS, ACTRESS AND WRITER, FOR YEARS SHE WAS THE INDISPUTABLE QUEEN OF THE MUCCASSASSINA, A MYTHICAL GAY CLUB IN ROME. “CHI HA PAURA DELLA MUCCASSASSINA?” (WHO’S AFRAID OF THE ASSASSINCOW?) IS ALSO THE TITLE OF HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY,PUBLISHED BY BOMPIANI IN 2007. BESIDES HER ACTIVITIES IN THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT,INCLUDING RADIO AND NADA WAS BORN IN LIVORNO.IN 1971 SHE WON TELEVISION, SHE HAS ALWAYS PARTICIPATED IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SAN REMO FESTIVAL WHEN SHE WAS JUST FIFTEEN YEARS OLD.IN 1973 SHE MET PIERO CIAMPI CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL MINORITY GROUPS. HER POLITICAL COMMIT- AND THE SINGER-SONGWRITER SONG TRADITION. Rights: MENT REACHED ITS PEAK IN 2006 WHEN SHE WAS ELECTED DEPUTY AS AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE EARLY EIGHTIES, Format: A MEMBER OF RIFONDAZIONE COMUNISTA:THE FIRST TRANSGEN- SINCE THE END OF THE NINETIES SHE HAS BECOME Binding: DER TO ENTER THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.HER PARTICIPATION IN THE ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND REFINED Pages: 320 Pages: 180 REALITY SHOW “ISOLA DEI FAMOSI”,WHICH ENDED WITH HER SINGER-SONGWRITERS OF THE ITALIAN SCENE. VICTORY IN THE 2008 EDITION, SPARKED OFF A HEATED DEBATE. IN Publication: May 2011 IN 2011 SHE RELEASED HER NEW ALBUM ENTITLED Publication: April 2012 2009 BOMPIANI PUBLISHED HER NOVEL FAVOLE NON DETTE. Price: € 18,00 VAMP. Price: € 16,00

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LARA UBILE NEW TITLE EDOARDO NESI C N 2012 The Story of My People You, like everything you touch Storia della mia gente Tu, come tutto quello che tocchi

The story of a broken dream. An Italian epic recalling many American stories. A story of mafia, earth and love, because “the mafia is like a love story”. Once upon a time the Italian Provinces were rich, happy and very productive. They traded Maira, a student; Minguccio, her brother, a drug addict, and Charlie, her bootlegger brother. with foreign countries, were on intimate terms with the Big Ones across the border, and were A story of love and friendship, but above all of the sea and smuggling, and the complications proud of having their not only national but communal identity. There was a time when even when their lives become linked with Ninì, a boss of the Sacred United Crown. Set in a wast- the stupid made money, in a nation where the GNP increased by two figures per year. Where ed, chemical, smoky Brindisi – the “Marlboro City” of the ‘80s and ‘90s with the smuggler’s the money earned in a carefree, high spirited, even ill-mannered way was openly displayed boats,the strongholds of the fugitioves from justice in Montenegro,the rackets of the police, in luxury goods. Then came the gurus of globalisation saying that things had to change, the excise officers and the politicians – we see the stories of each explode and burn out: one going on television to sponsor markets in China and claiming that the old model – where heads north, one stays and continues dreaming, one leaves forever, and the boss moves on things were going well – was going badly. This is “the story of my people”, all the people of a from gangland to collaboarting with the law. A story told through different voices, tracing happy and intelligent province, sacrificed in the name of globalisation. the rise and fall of the boss Ninì, parallel to the painful, thorny growing-up of Maira, Minguccio and Charlie. WINNER OF THE PREMIO STREGA 2011

Rights sold to: Atlas (the Netherlands); Salamandra (Spain) CLARA NUBILE WAS BORN IN BRINDISI IN 1974. UNTIL THE AGE OF 18 SHE LIVED AT TUTURANO, THEN SHE MOVED NORTH WHERE SHE GRADUATED IN TRANSLATION AT THE . SHE HAS LIVED IN BOLOGNA AND IN BOMBAY, AND, AT PRESENT, SHE’S LIVING IN ANTWERP WITH HER HUSBAND.WRITER BY CHANCE AND NOMAD BY INCLINATION,CLARA’S ACTUAL WORK IS TRANSLATING FOR VARIOUS PUBLISHING HOUSES.AMONG HER FAVOURITE TRANSLATIONS: VITA DI PI BY YANN MARTEL, WINNER OF THE 2002 BOOKER PRIZE. EDOARDO NESI WAS BORN IN PRATO IN 1964. AMONG HER PUBLICATIONS, THE SHORT STORY BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED FUGHE DA FERMO, RIDE “LA MANO DI DIO”(INCLUDED IN THE ANTHOLOGY CON GLI ANGELI, REBECCA, FIGLI DELLE STELLE, “PRINCIPESSE AZZURRE 2” – MONDADORI 2003, L’ETÀ DELL’ORO AND PER SEMPRE.HEWROTE EDITED BY DELIA VACCARELLO); THE NOVELS IOTI THE SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTED THE FILM FUGHE DA ATTACCO NEL SANGUE (LAIN 2005) AND LUPO (FAZI Pages: 162 Pages: 180 FERMO, TRANSLATED THE 1433 PAGES OF DAVID F. 2007); THE SHORT STORY “NERO LATTE DELL’ALBA” WALLACE’S INFINITE JEST, AND HAS CARRIED Publication: April 2010 (INCLUDED IN THE ANTHOLOGY I NOSTRI PONTI HANNO Publication: January 2012 ON THE FAMILY’S TEXTILE COMPANY. Price: € 14,00 UN’ANIMA, VOI NO – LETTERE AI POLITICI (FAZI, 2007). Price: € 16,00

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IERLUIGI ANZA NEW TITLE URELIO ICCA NEW TITLE P P 2011 A P 2012 Born under the Moon Goodbye Nati sotto la Luna Addio

Four friends:an art critic,Joe – a businessman and philanderer,Pier – a scientist,and Dido,the The story of a kid from the poor outskirts of Rome who swaps his childhood dreams for the illu- socially committed intellectual. All connected through a coincidence: they were all “born sion of criminal power. under the moon”, in 1969 – the year man took his first step on the earth’s satellite.When Dido A kid called Alfredo, the backdrop a choral fresco of the Italy of the Sixties: a period of inno- marries the lovely Assunta, whom he met during a trip to post-communist Cuba, he does not cence and happiness, when seen through the eyes of a child. But growing up everything to know that his marriage would mark the beginning of a pounding series of events that changes and things are no longer what they appear to be. Alfredo experiences life in a refor- would be a tough test on the friendship of the four. matory, in a period when reality is changing: on one side a popular, proletarian Rome, whose Midst economic hardship, contrasting love affairs, murders and prostitutes, ideals and lies, a daily life is marked by the songs of Don Backy and Caterina Caselli and episodes of crime novel that lays bare the contradictions of a generation – those born between the Sixties and news – a life hanging out in bars. On the other, the dream of an America made up of fast Seventies, in constant struggle with themselves. motorbikes and movies but also heinous homicides like that of Sharon Tate. Between these two worlds, Alfredo finds the road to crime more and more imposing, all his dreams are lost. It fills his life.

PIERLUIGI PANZA IS A JOURNALIST FOR “CORRIERE DELLA SERA” AND ALSO TEACHES AT UNIVERSITY. HE IS INVOLVED IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HAS PUBLISHED ESSAYS ON ART AND AESTHETICS, PARTICULARLY ON 18TH CENTURY ITALY.HE HAS ALSO AURELIO PICCA WAS BORN IN VELLETRI. EDITED A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF PER PUNIZIONE WAS HIS POETIC DEBUT (1990), PIRANESI (SUGARCO) AND A VOLUME ON ONE FOLLOWED BY THE SHORT STORIES LA SCHIUMA OF HIS MANUSCRIPTS WHICH IS KEPT IN NEW YORK AND I RACCONTI DELL’ETERNITÀ. IN 1995 HE WROTE (GUERINI). HE HAS WRITTEN TWO NOVELS: ITALIANI THE NOVEL L’ESAME DI MATURITÀ (GIUNTI,RIZZOLI ALL’OPERA (SKIRA, 2005) AND IL DIGIUNO DELL’ANIMA 2001), AND THEN I MULATTI (GIUNTI), AND FINALLY (BOMPIANI, 2007). WITH BOMPIANI HE HAS ALSO FOR RIZZOLI TUTTESTELLE, BELLISSIMA, SACROCUORE, Pages: 210 Pages: 224 PUBLISHED LA CROCE E LA SFINGE.VITA SCELLERATA VIA VOLTA DELLA MORTE, SE LA FORTUNA È NOSTRA. DI GIOVAN BATTISTA PIRANESI (2009, FINALIST Publication: September 2011 HE HAS WRITTEN ON CINEMA, ART, LITERATURE, Publication: March 2012 IN THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE). Price: € 16,50 CURRENT AFFAIRS AND CUSTOMS. Price: € TBD

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LEONE D’OROTH AT 68 ALEKSANDR SOKUROV VENICE FILM FLAVIO SORIGA FESTIVAL In the Center of the Ocean Blackrain Neropioggia A journey through the most intimate confessions and personal notes on cinema ethics, A dark novel by one of the contemporary leading film directors. Nothing ever happens at Nuraiò,an imaginary (but quite realistic) little town in Sardinia.Until For the first time the director of Russian Ark, Elegy of a Voyage etc., abandons the cine-cam- the murder of Maria Deiana, a pretty, easy-going young schoolteacher with short, red hair era and writes his first book. From the steppes of Chechena to the silent rooms of the Krem- and coffee-coloured eyes. When they start investigating, the carabinieri, led by Martino lin and on to the Japanese islands: stories, pages from his diary and reflections on cinema, Crissanti, are already well-informed. On the night of the crime heavy drops are falling on the this book gives us the testimony of an exceptional observer, Alexandr Sokurov, who reveals window panes, on the houses and on the tarmac. And in this Sardinia, far from every cliché, how he feels in this world and emerges us in the intimacy of his recollections. The book it continues to rain on the good people and on the bad – sooner or later they’re all going to opens with Alexandra, a tale of the war in Chechena telling of the human desolation of every have to pay their dues. war; this story is followed by other short stories that include reflections on history, war and personal memories. From this intimate prose the author passes on to the Elegies (which Italo Calvino Prize 2000 immediately recall his cinematographic elegies), followed by a letter to himself entitled My Giovani Prize 2002 Place in Cinema. Finally, some reflections on Ejzenstejn – an inspiration for re-reading the Mondello Prize 2008 world and art as well as himself. Piero Chiara Prize 200 LEONE D’ORO AT THE 68TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Rights of previous novels have been sold to: Germany (Luchterhand); Rumania (Univers); Galitia (Editorial Galaxia); Rights sold to: France (Rouge Inside); Croatia (Novela Media) Amphora (Russia)

GRADUATED IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY IN 1974 AT GORKY, AND IN 1979 COMPLETED HIS FILM STUDIES AT THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE OF MOSCOW. HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM THE LONELY VOICE OF MAN (1978) WON THE BRONZE LEOPARD AT LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL. FLAVIO SORIGA WAS BORN IN UTA, A SMALL TOWN IN THE ROM TO HE DIRECTED TWO FULL LENGTH FILMS A F 1980 1987 - , PROVINCE OF , IN 1975. HE NOW LIVES IN ROME. NUMBER OF SHORTS AND SIX DOCUMENTARIES, NONE OF WHIC PASSED IN 2000 HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK,THE COLLECTION THE SOVIET CENSORSHIP. HOWEVER, HIS WORKS WON PRIZES IN FESTIVALS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. IN 2000 HE PRESENTED DOLCE AT THE OF SHORT STORIES DIAVOLI DI NURAIÒ (IL MAESTRALE, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR ELEGY OF A VOYAGE, PREMIO ITALO CALVINO). BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED SARDINIA WHILE IN 2002 HE WAS AT CANNES WITH RUSSIAN ARK, A CONTINUED BLUES (PREMIO MONDELLO CITTÀ DI PALERMO), L’AMORE A SHOT THAT FOLLOWS A FILMMAKER INVISIBLE TO THE OTHER CHARACTERS , , LONDRA E IN ALTRI LUOGHI (PREMIO PIERO CHIARA) E IL CUORE AROUND THE INTERIOR OF THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST. Pages: 284 DEI BRIGANTI (2010). NEROPIOGGIA WAS AWARDED THE GRAZIE Pages: 220 PETERSBURG. AMONG HIS LATEST WORKS, ALEXANDRA (2007), WHICH COMPETED IN THE 60TH CANNES FESTIVAL, AND FAUST, Publication: September 2009 DELEDDA GIOVANI PRIZE. HE IS THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Publication: June 2011 GOLDEN LION AT THE 68TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Price: € 17,50 OF THE “SETTEMBRE DEI POETI” FESTIVAL IN SENEGHE. Price: € 9,00

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ATTILIO BOLZONI ELEONORA DUSE NEW TITLE 2012 FAQ Mafia Letters to Gabriele D’Annunzio edited by Franca Minnucci

The questions we all ask about the mafia. The answers of one who can give them Epistolary New Issue with authority: one of the authors of Il capo dei capi. Eleonora Duse and Gabriele D'Annunzio kept up one of the most harrowing, moving love Much has been written about the Mafia, not to mention the films, the television series and affairs in the history of Italian culture. The actress and the Bard first met in Venice in the plays, from The Godfather to La Piovra (The Leech). And yet its real “truth” continues to September 1894 when they were both at the peak of their success. The Bard saw in the escape us: its laws, its rites, its origins, its language and propagating methods. actress the person who better than anyone else could have exalted his future theatre and In this volume with the usual, simple, straightforward language of the FAQ series, we look Eleonora considered the author an ideal partner for her performances of Shakespeare and back over the history of Sicilian Mafia, going on to examine its relations and differences from Ibsen and her entire repertoire. Their love story and intellectual collaboration was to conti- the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta, the Neapolitan Camorra and the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia. nue until Duse's death in 1924 and, in this book, Franca Minnucci has collected over one Mafia and religion, Mafia and politics, Mafia and finance: where are the boundaries of the thousand three hundred missives that they exchanged showing the totality of an affection Mafia phenomenon? that lives on through the eternal pages of history and literature. Just as Eleonora was to say And who are the Mafiosi? Strange subjects on the verge of bestiality, or “normal” persons in one of the last messages written to Gabriele:“We'll talk – I'll hold you tight – Will I too tell mingling among us, unseen, unrecognizable? you? – there, the last evening or the first? Always. Always.”

Other titles available in FAQ collection: Francesco Merlo, FAQ Italy A pressing series of questions, together with articulate answers, on the political, historical, cultural and moral aspects of the Italy dilemma

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ATTILIO BOLZONI IS A JOURNALIST FOR “”. H E HAS PUBLISHED – TOGETHER WITH GIUSEPPE D’AVANZO – IL CAPO DEI CAPI (2007), LA GIUSTIZIA È COSA NOSTRA (1995), Pages: 154 Pages: TBD ROSTAGNO: UN DELITTO TRA AMICI (1997). WITH SAVERIO LODATO HE HAS WRITTEN C’ERA UNA Publication: May 2010 Publication: June 2012 VOLTA LA LOTTA ALLA MAFIA (1998). Price: € 12,00 Price: € TBD

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MBERTO CO IEGO USARO NEW TITLE U E D F 2012 Building the Enemy and Other Minimum Marketaly. Genesis and Criticism Occasional Writings of Absolute Capitalism Costruire il nemico e altri scritti occasionali Minima Mercatalia. Genesi e critica del capitalismo assoluto An exposure of the false truths that create ideologies and racism at the service of those in power The acquisition of self-awareness on behalf of humanity was defined in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as a “historical novel”of conscience.What we propose here, in a kind of phenomenology of the Every society and every individual, in order to define himself better, needs an enemy from “spirit of capitalism”, constitutes instead a “gothic novel” which narrates the process with which the whom to distinguish himself. All the racist regimes – from Nazism to Fascism – have proved “monster”created by humanity is becoming progessively autonomised until it will be the undisputed it once and for all.They invented a monstrous enemy using intolerable racist arguments.The master:capitalism,today,knows no social resistance (no class hinders it),nor political opposition (right, populist forms of government are still proving it, pursuing consensus by finding enemies in left and centre share the same ultracapitalistic vision of the world),nor philosophical delegitimisation the immigrants, the Southerners, the homosexuals. Eco starts from this critical, anti-ideologi- (apart from rare exceptions,today’s intellectuals are “organic”- in the Gramscian sense – to the system cal reflection and continues with a series of ‘occasional’ writings of the most varied topics – in force,to which they supply legitimising ideological pictures).Thus it can expand uncontrollably on those that have always characterised the author’s universe: the system of the media, the a global scale,passing itself off as the “end of history”.The postmodern,secularised world in which we political and “perverse” uses of science, little stories of ideas particularly dear to him (the live has abandoned the traditional divinities, turning to a blind faith in a new monotheistic divinity absolute, fire, lists... ), and small incursions into literature (from Hugo to Anna Karenina) and that, like all others, does not accept “competitors”: the monotheism of the market.A brand new vision popular culture. A journey through the passions, curiosities and obsessions of one of the of the world has arisen, passing itself off as aseptic, secular, neutral and purely economical, but it is in world’s most highly esteemed intellectuals, capable of reflecting while enjoying himself and, fact a highly ideological and religious position because it holds (relegates, according to the original always, amusing us. etymon of religio) all the peoples of the planet to the omnipotence of one sole directive principle of the totality of fetishised social relations – the market. Rights sold to:

Record (Brasil); Bard (Bulgary); Shanghai Translation (Cina); The Open Book (Korea); DIEGO FUSARO (UNIVERSITÀ VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE Mladinska Knijga (Croatia); Grasset (France); Hanser (Germany); Psichogios (Greece); DI MILANO) IS AN ASSIDUOUS SCHOLAR OF Kinneret (Israel); Tyto Alba (Lithuania); Prometheus (the Netherlands); Rebis (Poland); THE “PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY” AND THE STRUCTURES OF Gradiva (Portugal); Argo (Czech Republic); Slovart (Slovakia); Polirom (Romania); Ast-Rel HISTORICAL TEMPORALITY, WITH A PARTICULAR ATTENTION FOR THE THOUGHTS OF FICHTE,HEGEL,MARX AND THE Corpus (Russia); Plato (Serbia); Mladinska Knijga (Slovenia); R. H. Mondadori S.A. (Spain); GERMAN “HISTORY OF CONCEPTS”(BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE). Bromberg (Sweden); Dogan (Turkey); Harvill Secker (UK); Folio (Ukraine); FOR BOMPIANI HE HAS EDITED THE BILINGUAL EDITIONS OF Europa Konyvkiado (Hungary); Houghton Mifflin (US) VARIOUS WORKS BY MARX.RECENTLY, HE HAS ALSO DEDICATED THREE MONOGRAPHIC STUDIES TO THE INTERPRETATION OF MARXIST THOUGHT AND ITS LINKS WITH FICHTIAN AND HEGELIAN IDEALISM: FILOSOFIA E SPERANZA (2005),MARXEL’ATOMISMO GRECO (2007), AND KARL MARX E LA SCHIAVITÙ SALARIATA (2007) AND BENTORNATO Pages: 420 Pages: 400 MARX! (BOMPIANI 2010). HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE Publication: May 2011 INTERNET PROJECT “LA FILOSOFIA E I SUOI EROI” Publication: May 2012 Price: € 19,00 (WWW.FILOSOFICO.NET). Price: € 12,90

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ENZO GOLINO NEW TITLE LUCA GUADAGNINO NEW TITLE 2011 2012 Beyond Literature Gastronomical Journey Through Italy Oltre la letteratura Viaggio gastronomico in Italia One of the most well-known militant critics, from 1972 to 1974 the author interviewed Gior- Slow Food and travelling, a journey in stages to discover the Italy of traditions gio Bassani, Lalla Romano, Lucio Mastronardi, Domenico Rea on school; , Italy is not just a place of art and unique landscapes; it’s also a land where every corner has , Raffaele La Capria, on nature; Carlo Bernari, Romano Bilenchi, its own traditions, every village its specificity, every place its gastronomy. Vasco Pratolini, , , Nanni Balestrini on the work of the labourer; Luca Guadagnino takes us through this country to discover those little known spots which Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tullio De Mauro, , , Umberto Eco on language preserve their strong identity, and tells us of these places through their dishes and their and dialect; Franco Fortini, Arrigo Benedetti, Alberto Moravia on history. recipes. A journey through gastronomic Italy – midst art, landscapes, unrepeatable experi- In this book, the chorus of voices, among the most important in the cultural field (not only in ences of handicraft and, above all, irresistible dishes. Italy), evokes aspects of individual and collective sensibility that are surprisingly topical, in dialogues that are never academic.

LUCA GUADAGNINO WAS BORN IN PALERMO, HIS FATHER BEING ITALIAN AND HIS MOTHER ALGERIAN. HE GREW UP IN MILAN AND DURING HIS CAREER HE HAS DIRECTED NUMEROUS VIDEOCLIPS OF ELISA, ENZO GOLINO COLLABORATES WITH “L’ESPRESSO”, PAOLA AND CHIARA.HE REACHED FAME IN 2005 “LA REPUBBLICA”,“IL VENERDÌ” AND OTHER PAPERS.AMONG DIRECTING THE FILM MELISSA P., BASED ON THE SCANDALOUS BOOK BY ELISSA ANARELLO HIS BOOKS: CULTURA E MUTAMENTO SOCIALE (1969), M P . HIS 2009 FILM IOSONOL’AMORE STARRING TILDA LETTERATURA E CLASSI SOCIALI (1976), LA DISTANZA CULTURALE SWINTON, GAINED HIM A GOLDEN GLOBE AND OSCAR (1980), PASOLINI, IL SOGNO DI UNA COSA (1985, AVAILABLE NOMINATION AND ALSO WON THE ALABARDA D’ORO IN BOMPIANI POCKET SERIES), PAROLA DEL DUCE.IL LINGUAGGIO FOR BEST DIRECTION AT THE 2010 ALABADA D’ORO TOTALITARIO DEL FASCISMO (1994), TRA LUCCIOLE E PALAZZO. FESTIVAL.IN 2011 THE ENGLISH PRODUCTION HOUSE RUBY FILMS CHOSE GUADAGNINO TO SUBSTITUTE IL MITO PASOLINI DENTRO LA REALTÀ (1995), SOTTOTIRO. Pages: 180 Pages: 224 OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL AS DIRECTOR OF THE FILM 48 STRONCATURE (2002) AND MADAME STORIA & LADY Publication: September 2011 CORSICA ‘72, A ROMANTIC FILM IN A MAFIA SETTING, Publication: April 2012 SCRITTURA.SAGGI CRONACHE INTERVISTE (2011). Price: € 9,90 STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON. Price: € 16,00

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GIORDANO BRUNO GUERRI NEW TITLE STEFANO LIVADIOTTI NEW TITLE 2011 2011 The Italians under the Church. In the Name of God. Sex, Money and Spies. From St. Peter to Berlusconi The Enquiry into the Vatican Gli italiani sotto la Chiesa. Da San Pietro a Berlusconi In nome di Dio. Sesso, soldi e spie. L’inchiesta sul Vaticano

The Italians and the Church, Rome and the Pope: a couple that, a bit for love a lot for obliga- Dangerous friends. Unconfessable affairs. Unofficial agreements with political parties for tion, have been together for over two thousand years. The Italians owe the Church part of sharing multi-millionaire priveleges, often on the threshold of illegality. Midst shady, faction- their fortune and , perhaps, a greater part of their misfortune: the Church protected them al games, scandals and misdeeds, the Church has become like politics. But even more open- from the Barbarians only later to leave them disunited for centuries in the hands of foreign ly rich, unprincipled and arrogant in its demand for immunity for its men, more involved in masters; the Church educated them in Christian values and diseducated them in civil values. outdoing MPs in appearances on talk-shows or in court rather than at the altar. Giordano Bruno Guerri looks at this topic as a layman, but has great respect for those who For this, the most recent surveys reveal that the Catholic population throughout the world believe or have believed (but not for those who pretend or have pretended to believe). And, has turned their backs on them. Stefano Livadiotti, author of the best sellers L’altra casta and as a historian, he has brilliantly reconstructed a fascinating affair that from St Peter to Ber- Magistrati. L’ultracasta, in a ‘shock-enquiry’, reports all the truth about a world of power as lusconi crosses all the most important crossroads of our history: from the Communes to the gilded as it is hypocritical and corrupt, who doesn’t practice what it preaches. Where what struggles between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, from the Renaissance to the Counter- counts is fame, money and career, common acts of crime are normal and the most hardened Reformation, from the Decadence to the 17th and 18th centuries of the Italian Unification, paedophiles are lovingly safeguarded.Where, in the shadow of sacred buildings packed with up until the Second Republic. One after the other we discover the origins of many Italian bugs, wheelers, mafiosi and secret agents go about their business. Where stories of weapon events and behaviours, even the most up-to-date, that one would consider far-removed trading intertwine with mysterious deaths, charity is an optional, the truth a miracle and sex from religion. is made but not talked about. All this with the Pope’s approval? Anyway, in the utmost secre- GIORDANO BRUNO GUERRI WAS BORN IN THE PROVINCE cy, like any respectable lobby. And always, of course, in the name of God. OF SIENA IN 1950. HIS GRADUATION THESIS WAS PUBLISHED IN 1976 BY FELTRINELLI WITH THE TITLE GIUSEPPE BOTTAI, UN FASCISTA CRITICO.AMONG HIS OTHER BOOKS, TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES, ANTISTORIA DEGLI ITALIANI.DA ROMOLO A GIOVANNI PAOLO II (MONDADORI, 1997), D’ANNUNZIO.L’AMANTE GUERRIERO (MONDADORI, 2008) AND FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI (MONDADORI, 2009). IN BOMPIANI TASCABILI (POCKET EDITIONS): L’ARCITALIANO.VITA DI CURZIO MALAPARTE (2008) AND POVERA SANTA, POVERO ASSASSINO.LA VERA STORIA DI MARIA GORETTI (2008). STEFANO LIVADIOTTI IS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN HE HAS BEEN EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF ARNOLDO SIGNATURES OF “L’ESPRESSO”: FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS HE MONDADORI PUBLISHING HOUSE, AND DIRECTOR OF HAS WRITTEN ON ECONOMY AND POLITICS WITH ENQUIRIES, “STORIA ILLUSTRATA” AND THE “INDIPENDENTE”. H E Pages: 224 INTERVIEWS AND COVERAGE.BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED HIS Pages: 260 TEACHES CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AT THE GUGLIELMO Publication: May 2011 MARCONI UNIVERSITY IN ROME AND IS PRESIDENT OF BOOKS L’ALTRA CASTA.L’INCHIESTA SUL SINDACATO (2008) Publication: October 2011 THE VITTORIALE DEGLI ITALIANI. Price: € 16,50 AND MAGISTRATI.L’ULTRACASTA (2009). Price: € 16,90

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BENITO MUSSOLINI NEW TITLE UMBERTO PASTI 2011 Mussolini’s Diaries – 1936 vol. 3 Gardens and Non-Gardens (presumed) Giardini e no The inheritance of a recently deceased ex-partisan who had participated in Mussolini’s arrest Drawings by Pierre Le Tan reveals a clamorous discovery: six notebooks each of three hundred pages, attributable to A manual of Botanic Resistance. the Duce and bearing a precious autographic testimony of the years from 1935 to 1942. Vices and virtues of the Italians through the gardens they cultivate . Thus begins one of the most enthralling editorial events of recent years, rotating around the “Diaries of Mussolini”. The scientific community and the press are divided as regards the This book is a personal, ironic manifesto of botanic resistance that, starting from the contro- authenticity of the writings, with illustrious supporters for and against. versy over the gardens in fashion today, offers a cross section of our society. If the attribution of the diaries is still under debate, certain is their value and historical and The author takes into consideration the gardens of fanatic collectors obsessed by the rarity artistic interest. An unpublished document recounting what took place behind the scenes and peculiarity of the species to such an extent as to forget to draw pleasure from the aspect during the years that marked Italy’s modern history. The first volume is dedicated to 1939, and perfume of the flowers; the gardens of the well-to-do ladies, spoilt by an asphyxial, the year of the German invasion of Poland, the spark that triggered off World War II: relations mechanical creativity – lacquered and fake; the billionaire gardens, status symbols showing with Hitler, vitriolic comments on the Fascist hierarchy – a day-by-day diary describing the off their wealth, one of the maximum examples of non-garden since the owners have not a personality of a statesman, his errors and weaknesses, through a text of great intensity. crumb of passion, relying entirely on professionals so-called garden designers; the Moorish gardens having replaced the Japanese ones in the western exoticist trend... Already published: Fortunately, in this valley of horrors, there also are some pleasant surprises like the gardens Volume 1 – 1939 of the petrol stations – those wild and unpredictable flower beds fertilised by pollution, that Volume 2 – 1935 for some bizarre twist of nature give life to surprising, touching creations.

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UMBERTO PASTI WAS BORN IN MILAN.HE HAS CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES ON ART AND LITERATURE TO ’S NEWSPAPERS “GIORNALE” AND “LA VOCE”. H E HAS WRITTEN ABOUT TRAVEL, CUSTOMS AND CURRENT EVENTS ON VARIOUS ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS (“VOGUE”, “ E LLE”, “HOUSE AND GARDEN”, “ T HE WORLD OF INTERIORS”). HE TRANSLATED MARCEL PROUST’S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER FOR TARTARUGA PUBLISHING HOUSE (1986). EXPERT IN ISLAMIC Pages: 340 Pages: 148 CERAMICS AND A KEEN BOTANIST, HE LIVES IN MILAN Publication: November 2011 AND TANGIERS.IL SAGGIATORE HAS ALREADY Publication: March 2010 Price: € 21,50 PUBLISHED L’ETÀ FIORITA (2000). Price: € 15,00

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NEW TITLE 2011 ROSSANA ROSSANDA NEW TITLE VITTORIO SGARBI 2011 Visioni Rome: from Renaissance to the Present Day Visions. Conversation with Mariuccia Ciotta and Roberto Silvestri Roma. Dal Rinascimento ai giorni nostri

The last century girl, talking about cinema and political commitment In this book Vittorio Sgarbi leads us to discover Rome’s most secret places through the archi- The “last century girl” in the darkened cinema. The thoughts, emotions and battles of a spe- tects, sculptors and painters who made Italy’s capital city eternal.With him we discover a dif- cial spectator – Rossana Rossanda – face to face with the critics of the daily newspaper ferent Rome, partly known, partly unknown and ignored. Like this we can visit the wonders “Manifesto”.When the “Manifesto”was only about politics,in its early days,the early seventies, of Rome in a clear and easy way: in alphabetical order of place-names, authors and the mon- Rossanda was the first to fight for adding cultural pages, including cinema, to the paper. She uments. Over 1500 sites reviewed and 3000 authors named: the largest compendium on reviewed hundreds of films, her approach to cinema always being a moment for reflection Rome’s art and its historical and artistic beauties. and militant criticism, rarely mere escapism. Visioni is a conversation on cinema and politics A new look for a new collection: from 1900 to today. It looks at the revolution of form and the forms of revolution from the The books by Vittorio Sgarbi, a series of journeys through art Russian screen to Hollywood, from the avantgarde to classic cinema, to digital. guided by an enthusiastic lover of beauty ANOTHER JOURNEY THROUGH BEAUTY. R OSSANA R OSSANDA, BORN IN POLA IN 1924, PUPIL OF ANTONIO BANFI, ANTIFASCIST, SHE TOOK AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE TWO BESTSELLERS: PART IN THE RESISTANCE.LEADER OF THE PCI (ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY) – SHE WAS EXPELLED IN VIAGGIO SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI 1969 SINCE SHE WAS AN EXPONENT OF THE CRITICAL 50.000 copies, 5 editions LEFT OF THE PARTY.SHE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW “IL MANIFESTO”, WHICH L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE LATER BECAME A DAILY PAPER.SHE WAS FINALIST AT 50.000 copies, 7 editions THE STREGA PRIZE WITH LA RAGAZZA DEL SECOLO SCORSO (EINAUDI, 2005). Rights of L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE sold to: MARIUCCIA CIOTTA IS A JOURNALIST AND FILM CRITIC. Russia (Slovo) AMONG HER BOOKS: DA HOLLYWOOD A CARTOONIA VITTORIO SGARBI WAS BORN IN FERRARA.ART CRITIC (MANIFESTOLIBRI) AND UN MARZIANO IN TV (RAI/ERI). AND SCHOLAR, HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED WALT DISNEY.PRIMA EXHIBITIONS IN ITALY AND ABROAD, AND IS AUTHOR STELLA A SINISTRA (2005) AND THE BOOK BY OF VARIOUS ESSAYS AND ARTICLES.SINCE JULY 2008 ADRIANO CELENTANO, ROCKPOLITIK, EDITED BY HER. HE HAS BEEN MAYOR OF SALEMI.BOMPIANI HAS R OBERTO S ILV E S T R I IS RESPONSIBLE FOR “ALIAS”, PUBLISHED IL BENE E IL BELLO (2002), DELL’ANIMA THE CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENTS SUPPLEMENT (2004), RAGIONE E PASSIONE.CONTRO L’INDIFFERENZA TO “IL MANIFESTO”. H E IS ALSO ONE OF THE VOICES (2005), VEDERE LE PAROLE (2006), CLAUSURA A Rights: Marco Vigevani Literary Agency OF HOLLYWOOD PARTY, A PROGRAMME ON CINEMA ON MILANO E NON SOLO.DA SUOR LETIZIA A SALEMI Pages: 124 Pages: 648 RADIO TRE.WITH MARIUCCIA CIOTTA HE CO-EDITED (E RITORNO) (2008), L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE. DA HOLLYWOOD A CARTOONIA (1994) AND L’ALTRA Publication: September 2011 UNA CARTOGRAFIA DEL CUORE (2009), VIAGGIO Publication: June 2011 STORIA DEL CINEMA.LA VIDEOTECA IDEALE (2008). Price: € 14,00 SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI (2010). Price: € 22,00

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NEW TITLE VITTORIO SGARBI NEW TITLE LUCA TELESE, ALESSANDRO SALLUSTI 2011 2011 Full of Grace. Woman’s Portraits in Art Berlusconeide Piene di Grazia. I volti della donna nell’arte

After his two successes Italia delle meraviglie and Viaggio sentimentale nell’Italia dei desideri, Two front-line journalists, one anti- Berlusconian, one pro Berlusconi (maybe); one collabo- Vittorio Sgarbi takes us hand in hand through the world of artistic representation of femi- rator of the newspaper “Fatto Quotidiano”, one editor of the newspaper “Giornale”. Both ninity. Full of Grace recollects the many ways with which art, painting, literature and sculpture answering the questions that all Italians ask about their Prime Minister. Why did Berlusconi have portrayed the woman: sacred, worshipped and distant; sinful and salacious; redeemed enter politics? Why have the magistrates got it in for him? Does Berlusconi reflect the nation? and unrepentant; explosive and gentle; mother and lover. Cimabue, Giotto, Piero della Has he kept his promises? Is his leadership really on the brink of collapse or is it still solid? Francesca and Raffaello, Nero da Sansepolcro, Caravaggio, Lotto, De Magistris, Balthus and Through a brand new bipartisan experiment, this book helps understand better what is real- Botero and many others are the authors involved in this new journey through the history of ly going on; a manual for confuting, or confirming, one’s own convictions concerning a lead- art conducted by the most animated Italian critic. A journey full of Mystery and Seduction – ing protagonist of the last fifteen years of Italian politics. an elegant and intelligent homage to femininity.

OVER 100 COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS LUCA T ELESE, BORN IN CAGLIARI IN 1970, BEGAN WORKING AS A JOURNALIST FOR “IL MESSAGGERO” IN 1989, AND LATER WROTE ABOUT POLITICS AND ENTERTAINMENT FOR “IL FOGLIO”, “ P ANORAMA”, “CAPITAL”, “ G Q ”, AND “SETTE”. I N 1998 HE WENT TO “CORRIERE DELLA SERA”, THEN “IL GIORNALE”. S INCE 2004 HE HAS COLLABORATED WITH “VANITY FAIR” AND, SINCE 2008, WITH “PANORAMA”. H E HAS BEEN WRITING FOR THE “FATTO QUOTIDIANO” SINCE 2009. HE HAS WRITTEN FOR TELEVISION ( THE PROGRAMMES “CHIAMBRETTI C’È” AND “CRONACHE MARZIANE”), VITTORIO SGARBI WAS BORN IN FERRARA.ART CRITIC AND WAS PRESENTOR AND AUTHOR OF TETRIS.SINCE AND SCHOLAR, HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS JUNE 2010, TOGETHER WITH LUISELLA COSTAMAGNA, EXHIBITIONS IN ITALY AND ABROAD, AND IS AUTHOR HE HAS PRESENTED “IN ONDA”, AN EVENING TALK OF VARIOUS ESSAYS AND ARTICLES AND A VARIETY OF SHOW ON LA7 CHANNEL. BOOKS.SINCE JULY 2008 HE IS MAYOR OF SALEMI. BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED IL BENE E IL BELLO (2002), ALESSANDRO S ALLUSTI WAS BORN IN COMO IN DELL’ANIMA (2004), RAGIONE E PASSIONE.CONTRO 1957. IN 1987 HE WORKED FOR THE “GIORNALE” Rights : L’INDIFFERENZA (2005), VEDERE LE PAROLE (2006), WITH INDRO MONTANELLI BEFORE MOVING ON TO Format: CLAUSURA A MILANO E NON SOLO.DA SUOR LETIZIA Rights: Marco Vigevani Literary Agency “IL MESSAGGERO”, “ A VVENIRE” AND “CORRIERE DELLA Binding: A SALEMI (E RITORNO) (2008), L’ITALIA DELLE SERA”. H E HAS BEEN ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE Pages: 280 Pages: 224 MERAVIGLIE.UNA CARTOGRAFIA DEL CUORE (2009)AND “GAZZETTINO” AND EDITOR OF “LA PROVINCIA DI VIAGGIO SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI (2010), Publication: October 2011 COMO”; SINCE 2010 HE HAS BEEN CHIEF EDITOR Publication: November 2011 ROMA.DAL RINASCIMENTO AI GIORNI NOSTRI (2011). Price: € 20,00 OF THE “GIORNALE”. Price: € 16,00

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UMBERTO ECO UMBERTO ECO History of Beauty The Infinity of List History of Ugliness Vertigine della lista Storia della Bellezza In the history of western culture the taste for accumulation often recurs: lists of saints, for- Storia della Bruttezza mations of soldiers, catalogues of monstrous beings or medicinal plants, hoards of treasures, Beauty and Ugliness are mutable, cultural attributes relative to the period and the society. up to the parades of the 1900s, from music hall to fashion. The vertigo of the list is neither What was beautifu or ugly in Ancient Greece probably did not correspond to what was con- innocent nor casual. A culture prefers enclosed, stable forms when certain of its own cultur- sidered so in those same times in the Arab world, just as what the Middle Ages considered al identity, while it makes lists when faced with a disorderly series of phenomena in need of monstrous became seductive in certain epochs of our same culture. History of Beauty and criteria. The poetics of the catalogue therefore runs through the whole history of art and lit- History of Ugliness also look back over all Western culture (literature, philosophy, iconogra- erature; it is not only at work in the files of the legendary animals of the antique bestiaries, or phy), identifying the declinations of aesthetic, conceptual categories which never represent- in the celestial host of angels and those infernal of devils. We find it more transversely from ed absolute and changeless valves. Homer to Joyce, from the treasures of the Gothic cathedrals to Bosch’s oneiric landscapes, up to the 20th century with Andy Warhol or Arman. In this book Umberto Eco reflects on how the Rights sold to: idea of catalogue has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to the next, it Albania (Dituria); Brazil (Record); Bulgaria (Kibea); Canada (Flammarion Québec); China expressed the spirit of its time. Alongside his essay, a literary anthology and an ample selec- (Central Compilation & Translation Press); Croatia (Hena); Czech Republic (Argo); Denmark tion of works of art to illustrate and develop the presented texts. (Aschehough); Estonia (Estonian Encyclopedia Publishers); Finland (Wsoy); France (Flammarion); Illustrated essay Georgia (Diogene); Germany (Carl Hanser Verlag, Deustcher Taschenbuch Verlag); Greece (Kastaniotis); Hungary (Europa Konyvkiado); Israel (Kinneret); Japan (Toyo Shorin); Rights sold to: Korea (The Open Books); Latvia (Janis Roze); the Netherlands (Prometheus Bert Bakker); Brazil (Record); Canada (Flammarion Québec); China (Central Compilation & Translation Norway (Kagge Forlag); Poland (Rebis); Portugal (Difel, Circulo do Leitores); Rumania (Rao); Press); (Czech Republic (Argo); France (Flammarion); Germany (Carl Hanser Verlag); Russia (Slovo); Serbia (Plato Books); Slovenia (Modrijan Zalozba); Spain (R.H. Mondadori S.A.); Greece (Kastaniotis); Hungary (Europa Konyvkiado); Japan (Toyo Shorin); Korea (The Open Sweden (Brombergs); Taiwan (Linking); Turkey (Dogan Egmont); UK (Harvill Secker, Books); Latvia (Janis Roze); the Netherlands (Prometheus Bert Bakker); Poland (Rebis); Quercus Publishing); USA (Rizzoli International Publications). Portugal (Medialivros); Rumania (Rao); Russia (Slovo); Serbia (Plato Books); Slovenia (Modrijan Zalozba); Spain (R.H. Mondadori S.A.); Taiwan (Linking); U.A.E. (Abu Dhabi Culture & Heritage); UK (Quercus Publishing);USA (Rizzoli International Publications)

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GIOVANNI REALE ANDREA MANTEGNA NEW TITLE ELISABETTA SGARBI 2011 The eternal spouses Trilogy on the Sacred Sculpture Gli sposi eterni Trilogia sulla scultura sacra

With a contribution by Giovanni Reale and Vittorio Sgarbi The Weeping Statue Book + film in dvd The book contains a text by Giovanni Reale and Elisabetta Sgarbi on the “lamentations” in The Camera picta, better known as the Camera degli sposi, by Andrea Mantegna in Castello San terracotta by Niccolò dell’Arca, Guido Mazzoni and Antonio Begarelli. These sculptural Giorgio, Mantua, has fascinated millions of spectators, travellers and sightseers and has accompa- groups – masterpieces of humanistic and Rennaissance art – infer an extraordinarily intense nied generations of Mantuans. In the light of the critical observations by Rodolfo Signorini, a well- reading on the experience of grief and separation, lightened by faith. known Mantuan scholar, two leading interpreters of world art, Giovanni Reale and Vittorio Sgarbi, tackle the miracle of Mantegna’s art, recovering story-lines of ancient inspirations (Luciano di The Great Theatre of the Sacred Mount of Varallo Book + film in dvd Samosata) and coeval contaminations (Leon Battista Alberti) in an unprecedented dialogue The Sacred Mount of Varallo rose thanks to the initiative of Friar Bernardino Caimi, who, on his between hermeneutics and art criticism,research into the sources and a mystery as yet unresolved. return from the Holy Land (at the end of the 15th century), wanted to recreate a small “New How could Andrea Mantegna portray at the very moment a particular event occurred (the com- Jerusalem”. Each of the 44 chapels, with frescoes (about 4000 figures) and groups of statues munication of the election of Francesco Gonzaga to the cardinal throne) a whole pack of men who (about 400), represents scenes from the life of Jesus and Mary. Among the most important from the fifteenth century to today can still miraculously be seen on the streets of Mantua? What artists who have worked in Varallo are Gaudenzio Ferrari and Tanzio of Varallo. In 2003, it was pact with eternity did the painter make when he set those everlasting faces, expressions and gri- made a World Heritage Site protected by UNESCO. maces on that wall? A map in which the visions of art and the landscapes of the soul are interwoven, The Last Ascent. Beniamino Simoni’s Via Crucis Book + film in dvd overcoming the distance between things and places. A critical and cinematographic journey to discover a masterpiece of sacred art.Third volume GIOVANNI REALE (1931) IS ONE OF THE LEADING of the trilogy Elisabetta Sgarbi and Giovanni Reale have dedicated to sacred sculpture, SCHOLARS OF ANCIENT THOUGHT, AUTHOR OF FUNDAMENTAL L’ultima salita takes us to the heart of the 1700s, in Valle Camonica. CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE PRE-SOCRATES,SOCRATES, PLATO,ARISTOTLE,SENECA,PYRRHO,PLOTINUS, PROCLUS AND AUGUSTINE.HIS HISTORY OF GREEK AND THE MOVIES HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AT LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL ROMAN PHILOSOPHY ( IN 10 VOLUMES,BOMPIANI 2004) HAS BECOME AN INDISPENSABLE POINT OF REFERENCE.

VITTORIO SGARBI WAS BORN IN FERRARA.ART CRITIC AND SCHOLAR, HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS EXHIBITIONS IN GIOVANNI R EALE, ONE OF THE LEADING SCHOLARS ITALY AND ABROAD, AND IS AUTHOR OF VARIOUS ESSAYS AND OF ANCIENT THOUGHT, TEACHES AT THE VITA-SALUTE ARTICLES.SINCE JULY 2008 HE HAS BEEN MAYOR OF SALEMI. UNIVERSITY OF SAN RAFFAELE IN MILAN. BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED IL BENE E IL BELLO (2002), DELL’ANIMA (2004), RAGIONE E PASSIONE.CONTRO L’INDIFFERENZA ELISABETTA S GARBI IS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF (2005), VEDERE LE PAROLE (2006), CLAUSURA A MILANO E BOMPIANI PUBLISHING HOUSE.IN 1999 SHE MADE NON SOLO.DA SUOR LETIZIA A SALEMI (E RITORNO) (2008), HER DEBUT AS FILM DIRECTOR.SHE CONCEIVED THE Pages: 350 L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE.UNA CARTOGRAFIA DEL CUORE FESTIVAL LA MILANESIANA LETTERATURA MUSICA (2009), VIAGGIO SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI Publication: November 2011 CINEMA SCIENZA AND FOR ELEVEN YEARS SHE HAS Pages: 400 (2010) AND LE MERAVIGLIE DI ROMA (2011). Price: € 30,00 BEEN ITS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. Price: € 48,00

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CESARE BRANDI Travels and Literary Works Viaggi e scritti letterari Edited by Vittorio Rubiu Brandi “In the book you can find the same brilliant and elegant aura of the countless conversations around the table. His curiosity led him to explore especially the ancient civilizations.” A unique opportunity to rediscover one of the most original and vigorous figures of 20th cen- tury Italian culture: Cesare Brandi. Art historian, essayist, philosopher, restoration theorist, but also a writer in the purest, truest sense, Brandi (Siena 1906-Rome 1988) is herein presented above all as a great, authentic story-teller of things, places and people, a tireless travel racon- teur. Ancient Greece, the source of the Nile, the deserts of the Middle-East, the secrets of “Holy Russia”, Buddha’s lands, the legendary Persia, the great wall of China, the thousand faces of peasant and metropolitan Italy.All these are the stages of a long exterior journey counter-bal- anced by another, intimate journey that, in the subsequent sections – that of his autobio- graphical and literary writings – make us discovering a Brandi who is the interpreter and the friend of great international artists such as Guttuso, De Pisis, Klee, Morandi, Picasso, Matisse. Brandi’s look – with his exceptional language virtuosity, is conjured up in this book in all its complexity and richness.An essential critical anthology and an accurate bibliography offer on the other hand the basic data for a further historical and philological in-depth study of this important writer and man of culture.The book is edited by Vittorio Rubiu Brandi and enriched by three introductory essays by Roberto Barzanti, Franco Marcoaldi and Vittorio Sgarbi.

We have published as individual titles: Journey through Ancient Greece; Apulia Pilgrim

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FERNANDA PIVANO ANTONIO PIZZUTO Diaries, vol.I 1917/1973, vol.II 1974/2009 Dolls Repaired Here Diari 1917/1973, 1974/200 Si riparano bambole Edited by Enrico Rotelli with Mariarosa Bricchi A “live” classic that is an homage to Fernanda Pivano’s writing, talent, and vitality sharper than ever . Profi’s life is at the centre of the most exemplary novel by Antonio Pizzuto. Si riparano bam- bole is the story of a life told in fragments, frames of biographical epics from childhood to When Fernanda Pivano first went to the USA, in the fifties, she was a young student in love senility, edited like movie sequences: from the richness of the early years to the poverty of with the America of those times, with a strong desire to meet face to face the masters of fic- the final ones, from childhood curiosity to old age resignation. Despite the dry, unembell- tion who were just beginning to be known in Italy thanks to Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini. ished plot, this book is a powerful work: from a single, overwhelming memory, it develops a She immediately discovered a world of dreams, ideals and values that she would never get dense and composed continuum caught before his inexorable fading-out. tired of celebrating: from the pacificism of Norman Mailer – acknowledged master of Amer- ican fiction, both loved and hated by the Beat Generation of the sixties, who drew his anti- imperialism from him – to the example of an inexhaustible thirst for novelty and authentici- ty that was the living myth, . From the beat generation gurus (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Ferlinghetti, men who – in the name of an idea to return to the essentiality of Man, and clashing with the prejudices of capitalistic consumerism, lived and wrote with- out distinguishing art from life) to Don DeLillo and the minimalists. In short, a new American journey, among the contradictions and secret hopes of that great, glorified and feared nation that is, and always has been, America.

With contributions by Erica Jong, Bret Easton Ellis, Jay Mc Inerney, Gary Fisketjon ANTONIO PIZZUTO (1893-1976) GRADUATED IN LAW AND PHILOSOPHY AT UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO AND PURSUED HIS CAREER IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: FIRST AS DEPUTY CHIEF OF POLICE IN TRENTO, THEN AS CHIEF OF POLICE IN BOLZANO AND AREZZO.HIS CAREER AS AN AUTHOR BEGAN ONLY IN 1950, WHEN HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO ROME, WHERE HE DEDICATED HIMSELF EXCLUSIVELY TO WRITING.THE MAIN FEATURE OF HIS WORK IS THE NOTABLY ATTENTION TO LANGUAGE AND NEOLOGISMS HE CONSTANTLY INTRODUCED IN HIS WRITING. PIZZUTO WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF THE LITERARY Pages: 1728 Pages: 284 CRITIC GIANFRANCO CONTINI, WHO CONSIDERED Publication: May 2008 HIM ONE OF THE LEADING ITALIAN WRITERS OF THE Publication: October 2010 Price: € 50,00 LATE 20TH CENTURY. Price: € 11,00

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GIOVANNI TESTORI Works, vol. I, II, III Opere, vol. I, II, III Edited by Fulvio Panzeri. With a preface by

vol. I (1943-1961) The first volume of the Works by Giovanni Testori, edited by Fulvio Panzeri, with a preface by Gio- vanni Raboni, contains the Lombardy writer’s most well-known narrative and theatrical works. From his first dramatic works (La morte. Un quadro and Tentazione nel convento) to the master- pieces of his maturity (La Maria Brasca and L’Arialda); from the classic tales Dio di Roserio, Ponte della Ghisolfa and Gilda del Mac Mahon to the novels Il fabbricone and Nebbia al Giambellino. vol. II (1965-1977) The second volume, instead, is a collection of the author’s major poetic texts, from I Trionfi to Nel tuo sangue, and a precious review of compositions almost impossible to find nowadays, such as “For You, Alain”, together with some unpublished works like the two Suites for Francis Bacon… The collection will also include the novels La Cattedrale and Passio Laetitiae et Felicitatis, where Testori experiments an innovative disintegration of the traditional narrative forms, giving mas- terly proof of his linguistic exceptionality, and famous theatrical texts such as the Trilogia degli Scarozzanti, where educated speech is skilfully blended and harmonised with grotesque, popu- lar deformations. The book, edited by Fulvio Panzeri (as vol. I), is prefaced by Giovanni Raboni. vol. III (1978-1993) The third volume is devoted to the period going from 1978 to 1993, and collects all his pro- duction of the Eighties. The main surprise of the volume is the unpublished poems, above all the "familiar" one, or the ones taken by magazines or art catalogues, as well as the publi- cation of the two "Brianciatrilogie" and the second version of the Erodiade.

Pages: 1500 (each vol.) Publication: November 2008 Price: € 50,00 (each vol.)

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