The elements and their inhabitants.

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds, but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red children. The gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the calumets of the Gods, who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame. The American Indian peopled the forests, rivers, and sky with myriads of superphysical and invisible beings. There are legends of entire tribes who lived in lake bottoms; of races who were never seen in the daytime but who, coming forth from their hidden caves, roamed the earth at night and waylaid unwary travelers; also of Bat Indians, with human bodies and wings, who lived in gloomy forests and inaccessible cliffs and who slept hanging head downward from outcroppings of rock. The red man's philosophy of elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with Nature, whose inexplicable wonders become the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.15x21,5, pp.58, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.15x21,5, pp.60, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Supreme among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects and builders, the Great Pyramid of Gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. Eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the Great Pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. Its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man. Among the shifting sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of eternity itself. Who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts and dimensions, the master craftsmen who supervised its construction, the skilled artisans who trued its blocks of stone? The essay by Manly Palmer Hall that our publishing house is now proposing to modern readers,The Initiation of the Pyramid, was one of the most interesting chapters of his monumental workThe Secret Teachings of All Ages, published in San Francisco in 1928.

Faella, Prìncipi & Principi 2011, cm.21,5x28,5, pp.32, completamente illustrato a col., legatura editoriale cartonata, piatti figurate a colori. Coll.Le Fiabe. Un leone in forte crisi di identità, che crede di essere il re degli animali ma che si trova di fronte, sempre, qualcuno che è più agile, più forte, più intelligente di lui. Una favola che Daniele Nannini, Premio Andersen per il miglior illustratore 1988, tratteggia con leggerezza e ironia. C’è una morale? Sì, c’è una morale.

Koeln, Taschen 2001, cm.14,5x20, pp.1768, num. ill.a col.nt. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Milano, Fabbri Ed. 1991, cm.20x28, pp.80, num.figg.a col.nt. brossura cop.fig.a colori. Coll.I Nuovi Quaderni dell'Antiquariato. Diretta da Alvar Gonzalez Palacios.

Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults un the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries. Introduzione di Eric J. Hobsbawm. Traduzione di John ed Anna Tedeschi, Londra, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1983, cm.15x21, pp.210, legatura editoriale con sovraccoperta figurata. Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were able to fly into the night sky to engage in epic spiritual combat for the good of the village. Carlo Ginzburg looks at how the Inquisition's officers interpreted these tales to support their world view that the peasants were in fact practicing sorcery. The result of this cultural clash, which lasted for more than a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into the Inquisition's mortal enemies—witches. Relying upon this exceptionally well-documented case study, Ginzburg argues that a similar transformation of attitudes—perceiving folk beliefs as diabolical witchcraft—took place all over Europe and spread to the New World. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cultural notions and historical generalizations.