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BOMPIANI RIGHTS LIST 2011

FICTIONRoberto 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

Umberto Eco 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


C O N T E N T S

FICTIONNON FICTION

Attilio Bolzoni Faq Mafia 32

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 Italy 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

Fernanda Pivano Diaries, vol. I and II 56

Antonio Pizzuto Dolls Repaired Here 57

Giovanni Testori Works, vol.I, II, III 58


Pages: 180Publication: January 2012Price: € 11,00

B O M P I A N I R I G H T S L I S T

ROBERTO ANDÒ

The Empty ThroneIl trono vuoto

A novel that recounts the farse of politics when the party leaders are inexistent and anyone cantake their place

The leader of the main opposion party, Salvatore Olivieri, fifty years old, tired out by the neg-ative opinion polls and by some judiciary problems, decides one day to hook it: he disap-pears without telling anyone (not even his wife or assistant), leaving just a short note of reas-surance. He anonymously travels to Paris, to Danielle, an actress with whom he had had abrief affair twenty years before, but meanwhile, in Italy, his nearest and dearest are trying tofind a solution to the very serious problem that Salvatore’s disappearance has caused theparty. His wife and spokesperson turn to his twin brother, Ernani, a professor of philosophyand ex-psychiatric patient. He’s the only one that could know where Salvatore is. In actualfact, Ernani provides no clues but takes over his absent brother’s position in all naturalness:he gives interviews, holds rallies, presides over meetings – and, obviously, revolutionises theparty’s politicies. But this is not necessarily harmful, on the contrary...

ROBERTO ANDò, BESIDES HIS STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, HASCOLLABORATED WITH SUCH GIANTS OF CINEMA AS FRANCESCO ROSI,FEDERICO FELLINI, MICHAEL CIMINO AND FRANCIS FORDCOPPOLA. BESIDES CINEMA, HE HAS DIRECTED FOR THEATREAND OPERA, AND MULTIMEDIA, DIRECTING THE ORESTIADI,AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL HELD ANNUALLY AT GIBELLINA,SICILY, AND THE FESTIVAL NOVECENTO AT PALERMO. AMONGHIS MOST IMPORTANT SHOWS: LA FORESTA-RADICE-LABIRINTO,DEVELOPED FROM AN UNPUBLISHED TEXT ENTRUSTED TO HIMBY ITALO CALVINO, WITH SCENES BY RENATO GUTTUSO; LASABBIA DEL SONNO, ACTION FOR MUSIC AND FILM WITH MUSICBY LUCIANO BERIO AND MARCO BETTA; THE MULTIMEDIAOPERA FRAMMENTI SULL’APOCALISSE, INTERPRETED BY MONIOVADIA. IN 1999 HE DIRECTED LE MARTYRE DE SAINTSéBASTIEN BY GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO AND CLAUDE DEBUSSY AT THETEATRO MASSIMO, PALERMO. IN THE SAME YEAR HE REAL-IZED THE FILM IL MANOSCRITTO DEL PRINCIPE PRODUCED BYGIUSEPPE TORNATORE. HIS SECOND FILM, SOTTO FALSONOME, STARRING DANIEL AUTEUIL, IS DATED 2002.

Pages: 180Publication: January 2012Price: € TBD

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ANGELA BUBBA

A combination of Acciaio and Gomorra, another young talent of Italian fiction denounces herworld – a Southern Italy that could be different if someone talked about it

A market: the one at Rosarno, where a thousand tensions have preceded and “warned” thosewho should have understood and didn’t. A hospital, also in Calabria, where various womenhave been abandoned in the corridor because those responsible for the stretchers had fin-ished their shift. A factory, typical of the industrialisation of the South, full of illegalities andpollution. Crotone, a city that symbolises the whole region of Calabria, lacking in bookshopsand where one of the few booksellers confuses Agota Kristof and Agatha Christie.And finally Rome, where the author studies and where she sees the protests against the con-dition of women in Iran, without thinking of those secret acts of violence and the inferioritydeclared and introjected by so many women in Southern Italy.

Stories about Italy, from a South that is loved and lived, and for this reason – for love –denounced.

The youngest candidate for the 2010 Strega Prize

ANGELA BUBBA WAS BORN IN MESORACA, IN THE

PROVINCE OF CROTONE, IN 1989. SHE ATTENDED

CLASSIC HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN THE FACULTY OF

CLASSIC LET TERS AT THE UNIVERSITÀ LA SAPIENZA

IN ROME. DESPITE BEING SO YOUNG SHE GAINED

IMPORTANT RECOGNITION FROM THE CRITICS: HER

SHORT STORY “IL MATRIMONIO” WON HER THE 2006PREMIO VERGA, AND WITH “QUARTO DI LUNA” SHE

CAME SECOND IN THE 2007 PREMIO CAMPIELLO

GIOVANI AND AGAIN SECOND IN THE 2008 PREMIO

ITALO CALVINO. MALINATI IS HER SECOND NOVEL;THE FIRST, LA CASA, WAS PUBLISHED IN 2009 BY

ELLIOT, AND WAS ONE OF THE T WELVE FINALISTS OF

THE 2010 STREGA PRIZE.

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PAOLA CAPRIOLO

Cain Caino

As in a piece of crime news, a disappearance, a suicide, a wealthy couple, a poor, devout, immi-grant maid with psychic powers: a mysterious picture to reconstruct in order to find the culprit –if there is one.......

Milagro, an immigrant who works in the house of a very wealthy couple, has disappeared.The Police investigate and, very soon, question her employers. But on arriving at the house,all they find is the body of the owner who has hanged himself for no apparent reason; on thecomputer screen, in the form of a farewell note, is a phrase from Genesis about Cain andAbel. The Police try to reconstruct the incident. They discover that Milagro was a tormentedgirl, afflicted by a sense of guilt for mysterious events that had happened to her that she didnot want to confess to anyone. Her personality had intrigued Max, the man she worked for,a successful marketing director, who had taken her side when his wife criticised her, who hadtalked to her and realized that she talked to herself believing she was talking to someone.Shortly before his wife and son went away on holiday, Max had discovered that Milagro waseven able to levitate – like a saint, or someone possessed. One evening, after following herto 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’tstand 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)

PAOLA CAPRIOLO WAS BORN IN MILAN IN 1962. SHE CONTRIBUTES TO THE CULTURAL PAGESOF “CORRIERE DELLA SERA” AND IS ALSOA TRANSLATOR. AMONG HER BOOKS: LA GRANDEEULALIA, IL DOPPIO REGNO, LA SPET TATRICE, CON I MIEI MILLE OCCHI AND IL PIANISTA MUTO.

Pages: 180

Publication: January 2012

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Pages: 280Publication: September 2011Price: € 17,50


PIETRANGELO BUTTAFUOCO

In Sicilian tradition the “cunti” were the fairy stories told by the elderly in the evening, withthe children arranged in a circle. Modern interpreter of this tradition, Pietrangelo Buttafuocotells the story of the life of Scipione il Cicalazadé, known in the Orient as Sinan Pascià and inthe West, in his home town of Messina, as the Rinnegato (the Renegade). Captured by thePirates of Dragut at the age of twelve, Scipione is educated at the court of the Sultan,becomes the chosen one and is, therefore, nominated Commander of the Ottoman Armieson sea and land. Midst battles, conquests, booties and glory, Sinan Pascià harbours in hisheart nostalgia for his homeland, and for this reason he returns to the Long Land – Italy – inCalabria and then Sicily. At Palermo, Scipione glimpses the other half of his destiny: a ladymade Moon who engraves on his heart a graft from which love will germinate. But the bat-tle cannot wait: Scipione must hoist the sails and head towards Messina where his brother isready to give the order to fire on him. So it’s battle – a long, crude battle between brothers.But an angry “Hooray!” salutes Scipione’s victory, and so he can make his way back up thesecret heart of Sicily and return, at last, to the arms of the Lady made Moon. And live with herforever: the Wolf and the Moon is a “cunto” but it’s also a true story.

PIETRANGELO BUT TAFUOCO IS A JOURNALIST FOR“PANORAMA”, AND WORKED FOR “IL FOGLIO”.AUTHOR OF FOGLI CONSANGUINEI (AR, 2001), LE UOVA DEL DRAGO (MONDADORI, 2005), L’ULTIMADEL DIAVOLO (MONDADORI, 2008), CABARETVOLTAIRE (BOMPIANI, 2008) AND FIMMINI(MONDADORI, 2009).

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The Wolf and the MoonIl lupo e la luna

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Pages: 148Publication: October 2010Price: € 11,00

IVAN COTRONEO

A psychological thriller that is a vibrant indictment against the fear we all harbour for the Other.

Luca, Laura, Antonio. These are the protagonists of a novel told through three voices, narrat-ing a cruel tale of love, hate and violence. A difficult, introvert sixteen-year-old boy whoarrives in a small town in the provinces. A weary, forty-year-old school mistress, who anx-iously urges her students to face up to life with the courage that she herself is lacking. Ayoung man who has grown up too fast, incapable of relating to others and educated in vio-lence. At the centre, a gun, a shot fired at the temple in a school classroom, and perhaps akiss. One single, simple, kiss, capable of unleashing madness. A psychological thriller, jigsawpuzzle of sentiments, dramatic account of an impossible love, constructed like a time-bombdense with revelations, Un Bacio will conquer readers for the force of the story and a writingstyle capable of touching, moving and disturbing.

Rights sold to: Spain – Spanish and Catalan (Libros del silencio)

In November 2011 release of the film adapted from the novel La kryptonite nella borsadirected by the same Ivan Cotroneo.

IVAN COTRONEO WAS BORN IN NAPLES IN 1968. HE IS THE ITALIAN TRANSLATOR OF MICHAEL CUNNINGHAMAND HANIF KUREISHI. BOMPIANI HAS ALREADY PUB-LISHED IL PICCOLO LIBRO DELLA RABBIA AND THE NOVELSIL RE DEL MONDO, CRONACA DI UN DISAMORE AND LAKRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA, ALL RE-PRINTED IN VARIOUSEDITIONS. LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA IS SHORTLY TOBECOME A FILM PRODUCED BY INDIGO FILM (IL DIVO, LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO) AND DIRECTED BY COTRONEOHIMSELF. IVAN COTRONEO ALSO WRITES FOR CINEMA ANDJUST THIS LAST YEAR HE SIGNED THE SCREENPLAYS OFLA PRIMA LINEA BY RENATO DE MARIA, IO SONO AMORE BYLUCA GUADAGNINO AND MINE VAGANTI BY FERZAN OZPETEK.HIS POPULARITY IS ALSO LINKED TO TUTTI PAZZI PERAMORE, AN ITALIAN TV SERIES HE CONCEIVED, LOVED BYPUBLIC AND CRITICS, THE FIRST ITALIAN TV PRODUCTIONTO BE SOLD IN TWELVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

A KissUn bacio


ANDREA DE CARLO

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 hasbeen living in Italy for some years and works at the call centre of a large insurance company.The “lui” is Daniel Deserti, author of the international bestseller Lo sguardo della lepre andother less successful novels. One day, in the pouring rain, Daniel, who is going through a cre-ative crisis and is completely drunk, drives into the car in which Clare is travelling with herfiancé. The result of this potentially catastrophic incident is the birth of a relationship thatgoes from hostility to diffidence to curiosity to uncontrollable attraction. I wanted to relatethe reasons, doubts and profound contradictions that a man and a woman are faced withwhen they happen to fall in love for real. The challenge was to talk about it as honestly aspossible and give the same importance to both protagonists – the man and the woman. So,in alternating chapters, the story is told from both their viewpoints: the perspective changes,as do the perceptions, the sentiments involved and the questions unresolved. I think that forboth male and female readers it is almost impossible not to relate to one of the two charac-ters, and, in some cases, this may provoke a strange alternation of identification and anger.It happened to me, with “lei” and with “lui”.

Andrea De Carlo

The author is translated in:Albania, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China complex, Croatia, Finland, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, US

ANDREA DE CARLO WAS BORN IN MILAN. HE HAS

WRIT TEN: TRENO DI PANNA, UCCELLI DA GABBIA E DA

VOLIERA, MACNO, YUCATAN, DUE DI DUE, TECNICHE

DI SEDUZIONE, ARCODAMORE, UTO, DI NOI TRE,NEL MOMENTO, PURA VITA, I VERI NOMI, GIRO DI

VENTO, MARE DELLE VERITÀ AND DURANTE.

SheandheLeielui


LUCA DI FULVIO

The Great Excommunicated Il grande scomunicato

Like a modern fairy tale: in a nowhen time, in a nowhere place, there once lived twenty-fourhalf-wits and the most wicked of dictators, the Great Excommunicated, with an infamous faceand fine head: an erring clergyman of monstrous evil. He is the protagonist of this cleverlyspun tale by Luca Di Fulvio. A human drama that starts off with a clear image: the pure half-wits (twelve couples, men and women in equal number) – live outside the world, in anunknown desert. It’s impossible not to feel affection for the characters of this fairy tale, withtheir expressive names: LaFemmina (TheFemale), Rubezia (Rubicia), Mastro Tagliabue (MasterOxcutter), Luis Veloce (Speedy Louis), Augustin della Battaglia (Augustin of the Battle). Agrotesque portrait and metamorphosis. They all take action, they clash, they join forces – inthe rises and falls of the events of a lifetime in an imaginary (but almost credible) State, as ifin a dream.The life of the Great Excommunicated One, of course. Deus ex machina, alpha andomega, the protagonist you won’t forget and who, like it or not, resembles ourselves a little.

Rights of previous novels sold to: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

L’IMPAGLIATORE (MURSIA 2000, EINAUDI 2004) WHICH BECAME A

FILM DIRECTED BY EROS PUGLIELLI ENTITLED OCCHI DI CRISTALLO,

AND DOVER BEACH (MURSIA, 2002). IN 2006 HE PUBLISHED THE

NOVEL LA SCALA DI DIONISIO (MONDADORI) WHOSE FILM RIGHTS

WERE ACQUIRED BY GABRIELE SALVATORES, AND IN 2008 LA GANG

DEI SOGNI (MONDADORI), THE NOVEL WHICH MARKS HIS MOVING

AWAY FROM NOIR AND THRILLER FICTION.

Pages: 240

Publication: March 2010

Price: € 16,50


FEDERICA DE PAOLIS

I Hear YouTi ascolto

Between comedy of errors and kitchen sink drama, the reconstruction of the lives of others, onthe phone. Between apartments.

Diego Tribeca, a rootless forty-year-old who has been travelling the world for years, writingtourist guides for Lonely Planet, is obliged to return to Italy for a surgical operation. He set-tles into the apartment left vacant by his elder sister Sonia, who’s living in New York with herhusband. Diego discovers that the house phone has an inexplicable defect – when it rings,Diego hears the conversations of the other phones in the block.Instead of getting the phone repaired, Diego starts listening to the phone calls of the otherresidents and gradually becomes totally hooked: he falls in love with one of them, savesanother from anorexia, flees with a third after learning some disturbing secrets about hisown family...

Rights sold to:France (Grasset), Germany (Knaus Verlag), Spain (Siruela), UK (Troubador)

FEDERICA DE PAOLIS, AFTER WRITING FILM REVIEWS

FOR SPECIALISED MAGAZINES AND DIALOGUES

FOR THE FILM DUBBING, BEGAN, IN 2008, TEACHING

SCREENWRITING AT THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE

OF DESIGN. SHE ALSO WRITES ON THE SUNDAY

SUPPLEMENT OF “LIBERAZIONE” AND HAS PUBLISHED

LASCIAMI ANDARE (2006) AND VIA DI QUI (2008)WITH FAZI PUBLISHERS.

Pages: 240


Price: € 14,00

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UMBERTO ECO

The Prague CemeteryIl cimitero di Praga

30 years after The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco comes back with an historical novel aboutthe 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 OldContinent. 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.

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GIUSEPPE DI PIAZZA

Sleepy Eyes or rather The Four Chants of Palermo Occhi di sonno ovvero I quattro canti di Palermo

Four short stories set in Palermo in the early ‘80s, protagonist being a young journalist and the subject cases of Mafia and affairs of the heart.

HE BEGAN HIS CAREER IN 1979 WITH THE PALERMO

DAILY PAPER L’ORA, DIRECTED AT THAT TIME BY

NICOLA CAT TEDRA. HE HAS BEEN A PROFESSIONAL

JOURNALIST SINCE 1984, THE YEAR HE MOVED TO

ROME TO WORK FOR THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY

MAGAZINE COOPERAZIONE. IN 1985 HE PARTICIPATED

IN THE BIRTH OF THE NEWSPAPER REPORTER, DIRECTED

BY ENRICO DEAGLIO. IN 1986 HE MOVED TO

IL MESSAGGERO, WHERE HE STAYED FOR FIFTEEN

YEARS, FIRST AS CHIEF REPORTER, THEN CHIEF EDITOR

OF INTERNAL AND JUDICIARY AFFAIRS, COLUMNIST

AND, FINALLY, CENTRAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. IN 2000 HE MOVED TO MILAN AS VICE-DIRECTOR OF THE

MULTIMEDIALITY OF RCS MEDIAGROUP, OF WHICH

PIETRO CALABRESE IS RESPONSIBLE. HE THEN BECAME

DIRECTOR OF THE CONTENT OF HDPNET,THE MULTIMEDIAL COMPANY OF THE GROUP. IN 2002HE WAS ENTRUSTED THE DIRECTION OF AGR, THE

RADIO AND DIGITAL PRESS AGENCY OF RCS. IN 2003HE 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, SET TE.HE TEACHES AT THE MASTER COURSE IN JOURNALISM

AT THE IULM (FREE UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND

COMMUNICATION) IN MILAN.

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DARIO FRANCESCHINI

Over AgainDaccapo

When a son is not at all suspicious about his father and mother’s private life. A provocativenovel by Dario Franceschini

Iacopo Dalla Libera is a solicitor in a small town in the province of Mantua. He is a distin-guished gentleman, known by everyone, well-to-do, married to a woman whom he does notparticularly care for, with a father who was also a solicitor but is now elderly and dying.Indeed, on his death-bed, Iacopo’s father confesses to having had 52 other children with thesame number of prostitutes. He explains how he always kept a count of them and sent themmoney for many years. Now he is asking his son to trace them so he can see them all oncemore before it’s too late. So begins Iacopo’s odyssey. Completely dazed, he goes to Ferrara insearch of some prostitutes and, at the first address he visits, he meets the beautiful youngMila who immediately seduces him. Mila knows all about the man who sowed wild oats farand wide and she slowly leads Iacopo into a world of folly and passion that overwhelms hisown family and his very wife’s identity... Everyone, it seems, has hidden secrets and one byone Iacopo discovers them. There’s no going back when you find out certain truths.

A name well-known by the Italian people and media for his role in the Democratic Party (PD)

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 secretsthat lie within our daily lives and on the contradictions of our respectability

Rights of his previous novel sold to:France (Gallimard)

DARIO FRANCESCHINI WAS BORN IN FERRARA IN 1958.

BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED HIS NOVELS NELLE VENE

QUELL’ACQUA D’ARGENTO (2006) AND LA FOLLIA IMPROVVISA

DI IGNAZIO RANDO (2007) AS WELL AS THE COLLECTION OF HIS

ELECTORAL SPEECHES HELD IN 2009, IN 10 PAROLE.

HE IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN. A LAWYER AND

A POLITICIAN, FROM FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 2009 HE WAS

THE NATIONAL SECRETARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Pages: 220

Publication: May 2011

Price: € 15,00


MARIO FORTUNATO

Allegra Street

A Comedy about Living as a Couple. Like a Woody Allen film – the secrets, lies and paradoxes ofthat time-bomb mechanism that is the situation of two people who share their lives.

What happens when a well-to-do, respectable Italian diplomat in London, whose marriage israther dull, suddenly, during a massage, discovers homosexual tendencies he never dreamthe had?And what happens when his equally respectable wife, Paula, falls in love with a young macho,tosses everything to the wind and runs off with him?In the London district of Montrose Place, as in the most typical Anglo-Saxon comedies, liesand secrets interweave giving life to a an amusing, bitter-sweet novel that is both funny andruthless.

An author well-known in the media (editorialist of “L’Espresso” and foreign collaborator forthe BBC).A humourous woman’s novel that isn’t only for women.One of the Italian writers best appreciated by the critics:Finalist in the 2007 Strega PrizeWinner of the 2007 Mondello and Super Mondello Prizes, Palermo

MARIO FORTUNATO HAS PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

LUOGHI NATURALI (TASCABILI BOMPIANI), IL PRIMO CIELO,

IMMIGRATO (TOGETHER WITH SALAH METHNANI, TASCABILI

BOMPIANI), SANGUE, L’ARTE DI PERDERE PESO, AMORE, ROMANZI

E ALTRE SCOPERTE, IL PRIMO CIELO, SANGUE, AND L’AMORE

RIMANE E QUELLI CHE AMI NON MUOIONO (2008). HIS NOVEL I

GIORNI INNOCENTI DELLA GUERRA (BOMPIANI 2007, TASCABILI

BOMPIANI 2008) WAS FINALIST IN THE 2007 STREGA PRIZE

AND WINNER OF THE 2007 MONDELLO AND SUPER

MONDELLO PRIZE, PALERMO.

Pages: 224

Publication: March 2011

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FAUSTA GARAVINI

Diary of SolitudeDiario delle solitudini

The story of a man who finds the strength to face the future in solitude and recollection.The case of a journalist who has lost almost everything for the sake of truth.

A journalist is the victim of a serious accident that leaves him permanently disfigured. Toregain his equilibrium he seeks refuge in a house near a lagoon in total isolation except forthe occasional company of Norberto, the person who brings his supplies. Soon the largehouse he is staying in begins to rouse his curiosity and, from the clues that surround him(paintings, furniture) he reconstructs the life of the inhabitants, scarred by wars andredeemed through art. In particular, he recomposes the lives of Rodolfo and Gualtiero, theformer a businessman, the latter an artist – both protagonists of the most significant eventsof the first half of the 1900s in Italy (the war in Libya, World War I...) and short-lived but pas-sionate love affairs. By reconstructing the lives of his predecessors in the house, the journal-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.

Rights sold to:UK (Troubador)

FAUSTA GARAVINI, SPECIALIST IN FRENCH STUDIES

AND SCHOLAR OF PROVENÇAL LITERATURE, HAS ALSO

STUDIED MONTAIGNE, MOLIÈRE, BOILEAU

AND LA FONTAINE.



MASSIMILIANO GOVERNI

Who Writes DiesChi scrive muore

Gasping, on the brink of a never-ending explosion, day after day, lost in a vortex of hunted-down days and short, decayed breaths, in the gleaming tailspin of speeding cars their doorsslamming, of assaults, prisoner inside anonymous, weightless buildings, so long, so big, per-haps inexistent, dead inside, dead before him. Disillusioned, sad, angry, lacerated, with a com-panion and a daughter, that’s how the writer imagines him. And inexorably caught up in theaffairs of another man, chief escort – Angelo – a talking name, a livid though loyal messen-ger of a world to be both fought and protected, of an intimacy to live from afar and an every-day life inaccessible to the writer. The metres he walks are nothing but the corrupt dust of acondemned man, of a live man already putrified, an eagle with an instinct more in the earththan in the sky. Like Angelo after all, like the ‘Camorristi’ who persecute him, like every othernature and flesh. There’s no hope in life, only in writing. Those who read, that which is read –they are saved; the writer is not. All the rest is a trap, blackmail, persecution.

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

WORKED FOR FAZI PUBLISHERS FROM 2004 TO

2007. SINCE 2008 HE HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR

THE SERIES HEROES OF ITALIAN WRITERS AT ELLIOT

EDITIONS.


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FRANCESCA LANCINI

Without Heels Senza tacchi

A contemporary coming-of-age novel, a cross between Catcher in the Rye and The Devil wearsPrada.

Sofia is twenty-five. She is Milanese, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois family, the sister ofa super-intelligent, psychologically unstable fifteen-year-old (Ginevra), and has a degree inLetters. Although books are her universe, she works as a model. That way she earns a lot ofmoney and travels between Milan, Miami and Barcellona.As she skips from one love affair to another, she tries to escape from a reality which does notsatisfy her – allergic as she is to human beings – in search of a place in the sun in that glit-tering yet cynical world of fashion and appearances.But peace does not come, at least not in the fashion world...A merciless, moving and enthralling portrait of a young woman’s adventures in her search forherself, finding her way in a reality seeming to row against every form of self-knowledge.

Rights sold to:

Bulgaria (Scalino)

FRANCESCA LANCINI, FORMER MODEL, WAS BORN

IN BRESCIA IN 1983 BUT FOR WORK NOW LIVES

BET WEEN MILAN AND ROME. SHE HAS MODELLED

FOR THIERRY MUGLER, MARIELLA BURANI, GAT TINONI

AND ROCCO BAROCCO. SHE HAS WORKED

IN TELEVISION, ON RAI 2 IN QUELLI CHE IL CALCIO

COMPERED BY SIMONA VENTURA, ON RAI 1 FOR THE 2006 FESTIVAL OF SANREMO AND

ON CANALE 5 IN THE TV-FILM MADAME WITH NANCY

BRILLI. SHE ALSO ACTED ALONGSIDE GEORGE

CLOONEY IN THE FILM OCEAN’S T WELVE.

Pages: 240


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VINCENZO LATRONICO

The Conspiracy of the DovesLa cospirazione delle colombe

VINCENZO LATRONICO WAS BORN IN ROME IN 1984.HIS PRIZE-WINNING FIRST NOVEL, GYMNASTICS

& REVOLUTIONS, WAS PUBLISHED BY BOMPIANI

IN 2008. HIS ART CRITICISM HAS APPEARED IN

“FRIEZE”, “DOMUS” AND “ROLLING STONE”, AND HAS

BEEN PUBLISHED IN ITALIAN, ENGLISH, GERMAN,FINNISH AND SPANISH.

Pages: 387Publication: May2011Price: € 15,00

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“400 breathtaking pages: an immense and harsh portrait of contemporary society. […] With extraor-dinary skill, Latronico, a new Dos Passos, successfully portrays the crisis of a civilization, the brutality of finance, the verminous obsession for money, the loneliness of contemporary love.” Il Sole 24 Ore

We struggle as hard as we can to pursue success, wealth, happiness. But what can we do when tal-ent just isn't enough and fair play seems to lead nowhere? How many failures does it take to changea dove into a hawk? The Conspiracy of Doves follows two friends through this transformation. Alfre-do Cannella is heir to a prominent Venetian real estate developer; Donka Berati is an Albanianorphan. Both Harvard dropouts, they are the best in their class at Italy’s leading business university.Alfredo’s family has made a big donation to the university; Donka is there on a scholarship. Yet theybecome close friends, united in their quest to get all they feel that they deserve. Their friendshipgrows out of their mutual successes, but their successes, in turn, start to compromise everythingelse. 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 bribeshis way to a huge government contract. Alfredo, however, ultimately finds himself on the wrong sideof the deal, while Donka’s academic hopes end abruptly when his professor and mentor passesaway. 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 decisionsdon’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 andmorally ambiguous characters, crafting a breathtaking plot around their deep passions – love, envy,ambition – and the justifications they offer for betraying those who trust them.

Film rights optioned

Rights of his previous novel sold to: Greece (Modern Times)



NADA MALANIMA

The Large House La grande casa

The novel opens in 2054 and tells the story of three women whose lives are closely inter-twined: the first is Emilia, mad about dancing, exploited by the star system and then left alonewith an illegitimate daughter; the second is Mrs Richter, a wealthy German widow who is ren-ovating a large house in Italy purely for love; the third is Gemma, an elderly nun whose pastis clouded by depression. In the large house the three women rediscover themselves andtheir serenity...

NADA WAS BORN IN LIVORNO. IN 1971 SHE WON

THE SAN REMO FESTIVAL WHEN SHE WAS JUST

FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. IN 1973 SHE MET PIERO CIAMPI

AND THE SINGER-SONGWRITER SONG TRADITION.AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE EARLY EIGHTIES,SINCE THE END OF THE NINETIES SHE HAS BECOME

ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND REFINED

SINGER-SONGWRITERS OF THE ITALIAN SCENE.IN 2011 SHE RELEASED HER NEW ALBUM ENTITLED

VAMP.

Rights: Format: Binding: Pages: 180Publication: April 2012Price: € 16,00

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VLADIMIR LUXURIA

Eldorado

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 Milanmany years ago. One evening he gives a lift to a youth who looks like he’s going to seducehim but as soon as they get into the suburbs the boy pulls out a knife and robs him. The fearand dejection he feels when faced with such violence starts him reminiscing and brings tomind his long-forgotten friendship with Michele and the journey he made before World WarII from Puglia to Berlin where he got a job as a singer in drag, in a gay club called ‘Eldorado’together with two ‘sisters’ – Franz and Karl. One night the SS invaded the club and arrestedeveryone. Raffaele was sent back to Italy and the Germans, including Franz and Karl, weredeported. Now, after many decades, the past seems to have caught up with him to tie up theloose ends, not only in his memory but also his life.

Luxuria is back with a brilliant novel full of ironyA 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

TELEVISION, SHE HAS ALWAYS PARTICIPATED IN THE STRUGGLE FOR

CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL MINORITY GROUPS. HER POLITICAL COMMIT-

MENT REACHED ITS PEAK IN 2006 WHEN SHE WAS ELECTED DEPUTY AS

A MEMBER OF RIFONDAZIONE COMUNISTA: THE FIRST TRANSGEN-

DER TO ENTER THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.HER PARTICIPATION IN THE

REALITY SHOW “ISOLA DEI FAMOSI”, WHICH ENDED WITH HER

VICTORY IN THE 2008 EDITION, SPARKED OFF A HEATED DEBATE. IN

2009 BOMPIANI PUBLISHED HER NOVEL FAVOLE NON DETTE.

Pages: 320

Publication: May 2011

Price: € 18,00

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EDOARDO NESI WAS BORN IN PRATO IN 1964.BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED FUGHE DA FERMO, RIDE

CON GLI ANGELI, REBECCA, FIGLI DELLE STELLE,L’ETÀ DELL’ORO AND PER SEMPRE. HE WROTE

THE SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTED THE FILM FUGHE DA

FERMO, TRANSLATED THE 1433 PAGES OF DAVID F.WALLACE’S INFINITE JEST, AND HAS CARRIED

ON THE FAMILY’S TEXTILE COMPANY.

EDOARDO NESI

The Story of My People Storia della mia gente

The story of a broken dream. An Italian epic recalling many American stories.

Once upon a time the Italian Provinces were rich, happy and very productive. They tradedwith foreign countries, were on intimate terms with the Big Ones across the border, and wereproud of having their not only national but communal identity. There was a time when eventhe stupid made money, in a nation where the GNP increased by two figures per year. Wherethe money earned in a carefree, high spirited, even ill-mannered way was openly displayedin luxury goods. Then came the gurus of globalisation saying that things had to change,going on television to sponsor markets in China and claiming that the old model – wherethings were going well – was going badly. This is “the story of my people”, all the people of ahappy and intelligent province, sacrificed in the name of globalisation.

WINNER OF THE PREMIO STREGA 2011

RRiigghhttss ssoolldd ttoo::Atlas (the Netherlands); Salamandra (Spain)

Pages: 162Publication: April 2010Price: € 14,00


CLARA NUBILE

You, like everything you touch Tu, come tutto quello che tocchi

A story of mafia, earth and love, because “the mafia is like a love story”.

Maira, a student; Minguccio, her brother, a drug addict, and Charlie, her bootlegger brother.A story of love and friendship, but above all of the sea and smuggling, and the complicationswhen their lives become linked with Ninì, a boss of the Sacred United Crown. Set in a wast-ed, chemical, smoky Brindisi – the “Marlboro City” of the ‘80s and ‘90s with the smuggler’sboats, the strongholds of the fugitioves from justice in Montenegro, the rackets of the police,the excise officers and the politicians – we see the stories of each explode and burn out: oneheads north, one stays and continues dreaming, one leaves forever, and the boss moves onfrom gangland to collaboarting with the law. A story told through different voices, tracingthe rise and fall of the boss Ninì, parallel to the painful, thorny growing-up of Maira,Minguccio and Charlie.

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 UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA.SHE HAS LIVED IN BOLOGNA AND IN BOMBAY, AND,AT PRESENT, SHE’S LIVING IN ANT WERP 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.AMONG HER PUBLICATIONS, THE SHORT STORY

“LA MANO DI DIO” (INCLUDED IN THE ANTHOLOGY

“PRINCIPESSE AZZURRE 2” – MONDADORI 2003,EDITED BY DELIA VACCARELLO); THE NOVELS IO TI

AT TACCO NEL SANGUE (LAIN 2005) AND LUPO (FAZI

2007); THE SHORT STORY “NERO LATTE DELL’ALBA”(INCLUDED IN THE ANTHOLOGY I NOSTRI PONTI HANNO

UN’ANIMA, VOI NO – LET TERE AI POLITICI (FAZI, 2007).


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AURELIO PICCA

GoodbyeAddio

The story of a kid from the poor outskirts of Rome who swaps his childhood dreams for the illu-sion of criminal power.

A kid called Alfredo, the backdrop a choral fresco of the Italy of the Sixties: a period of inno-cence and happiness, when seen through the eyes of a child. But growing up everythingchanges and things are no longer what they appear to be. Alfredo experiences life in a refor-matory, in a period when reality is changing: on one side a popular, proletarian Rome, whosedaily life is marked by the songs of Don Backy and Caterina Caselli and episodes of crimenews – a life hanging out in bars. On the other, the dream of an America made up of fastmotorbikes and movies but also heinous homicides like that of Sharon Tate. Between thesetwo worlds, Alfredo finds the road to crime more and more imposing, all his dreams are lost.It fills his life.

AURELIO PICCA WAS BORN IN VELLETRI.PER PUNIZIONE WAS HIS POETIC DEBUT (1990),FOLLOWED BY THE SHORT STORIES LA SCHIUMA

AND I RACCONTI DELL’ETERNITÀ. IN 1995 HE WROTE

THE NOVEL L’ESAME DI MATURITÀ (GIUNTI, RIZZOLI

2001), AND THEN I MULAT TI (GIUNTI), AND FINALLY

FOR RIZZOLI TUT TESTELLE, BELLISSIMA, SACROCUORE,VIA VOLTA DELLA MORTE, SE LA FORTUNA È NOSTRA.HE HAS WRIT TEN ON CINEMA, ART, LITERATURE,CURRENT AFFAIRS AND CUSTOMS.

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PIERLUIGI PANZA

Born under the Moon Nati sotto la Luna

Four friends: an art critic, Joe – a businessman and philanderer, Pier – a scientist, and Dido, thesocially committed intellectual. All connected through a coincidence: they were all “bornunder the moon”, in 1969 – the year man took his first step on the earth’s satellite.When Didomarries the lovely Assunta, whom he met during a trip to post-communist Cuba, he does notto know that his marriage would mark the beginning of a pounding series of events thatwould be a tough test on the friendship of the four.Midst economic hardship, contrasting love affairs, murders and prostitutes, ideals and lies, anovel that lays bare the contradictions of a generation – those born between the Sixties andSeventies, in constant struggle with themselves.

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

EDITED A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF

PIRANESI (SUGARCO) AND A VOLUME ON ONE

OF HIS MANUSCRIPTS WHICH IS KEPT IN NEW YORK

(GUERINI). HE HAS WRIT TEN T WO NOVELS: ITALIANI

ALL’OPERA (SKIRA, 2005) AND IL DIGIUNO DELL’ANIMA

(BOMPIANI, 2007). WITH BOMPIANI HE HAS ALSO

PUBLISHED LA CROCE E LA SFINGE. VITA SCELLERATA

DI GIOVAN BAT TISTA PIRANESI (2009, FINALIST

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Pages: 220

Publication: June 2011

Price: € 9,00

GRADUATED IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY IN 1974 AT GORKY, ANDIN 1979 COMPLETED HIS FILM STUDIES AT THE CINEMATOGRAPHICINSTITUTE OF MOSCOW. HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM THE LONELY VOICE OFMAN (1978) WON THE BRONZE LEOPARD AT LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL.FROM 1980 TO 1987 HE DIRECTED TWO FULL-LENGTH FILMS, ANUMBER OF SHORTS AND SIX DOCUMENTARIES, NONE OF WHIC PASSEDTHE SOVIET CENSORSHIP. HOWEVER, HIS WORKS WON PRIZES IN FESTIVALSTHROUGHOUT THE WORLD. IN 2000 HE PRESENTED DOLCE AT THEVENICE FILM FESTIVAL, AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR ELEGY OF A VOYAGE,WHILE IN 2002 HE WAS AT CANNES WITH RUSSIAN ARK, A CONTINUEDSHOT THAT FOLLOWS A FILMMAKER, INVISIBLE TO THE OTHER CHARACTERS,AROUND THE INTERIOR OF THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST.PETERSBURG. AMONG HIS LATEST WORKS, ALEXANDRA (2007),WHICH COMPETED IN THE 60TH CANNES FESTIVAL, AND FAUST, GOLDEN LION AT THE 68TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.


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ALEKSANDR SOKUROV

In the Center of the Ocean

A journey through the most intimate confessions and personal notes on cinema ethics, by one of the contemporary leading film directors.

For the first time the director of Russian Ark, Elegy of a Voyage etc., abandons the cine-cam-era and writes his first book. From the steppes of Chechena to the silent rooms of the Krem-lin and on to the Japanese islands: stories, pages from his diary and reflections on cinema,this book gives us the testimony of an exceptional observer, Alexandr Sokurov, who revealshow he feels in this world and emerges us in the intimacy of his recollections. The bookopens with Alexandra, a tale of the war in Chechena telling of the human desolation of everywar; this story is followed by other short stories that include reflections on history, war andpersonal memories. From this intimate prose the author passes on to the Elegies (whichimmediately recall his cinematographic elegies), followed by a letter to himself entitled MyPlace in Cinema. Finally, some reflections on Ejzenstejn – an inspiration for re-reading theworld and art as well as himself.

LEONE D’ORO AT THE 68TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

RRiigghhttss ssoolldd ttoo::Amphora (Russia)


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FLAVIO SORIGA

Blackrain Neropioggia

A dark novel

Nothing ever happens at Nuraiò, an imaginary (but quite realistic) little town in Sardinia. Untilthe murder of Maria Deiana, a pretty, easy-going young schoolteacher with short, red hairand coffee-coloured eyes. When they start investigating, the carabinieri, led by MartinoCrissanti, are already well-informed. On the night of the crime heavy drops are falling on thewindow panes, on the houses and on the tarmac. And in this Sardinia, far from every cliché,it continues to rain on the good people and on the bad – sooner or later they’re all going tohave to pay their dues.

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Rights of previous novels have been sold to: Germany (Luchterhand); Rumania (Univers); Galitia (Editorial Galaxia); France (Rouge Inside); Croatia (Novela Media)

FLAVIO SORIGA WAS BORN IN UTA, A SMALL TOWN IN THE

PROVINCE OF CAGLIARI, IN 1975. HE NOW LIVES IN ROME.

IN 2000 HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK, THE COLLECTION

OF SHORT STORIES DIAVOLI DI NURAIÒ (IL MAESTRALE,

PREMIO ITALO CALVINO). BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED SARDINIA

BLUES (PREMIO MONDELLO CITTÀ DI PALERMO), L’AMORE A

LONDRA E IN ALTRI LUOGHI (PREMIO PIERO CHIARA) E IL CUORE

DEI BRIGANTI (2010). NEROPIOGGIA WAS AWARDED THE GRAZIE

DELEDDA GIOVANI PRIZE. HE IS THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

OF THE “SETTEMBRE DEI POETI” FESTIVAL IN SENEGHE.

LEONE D’ORO

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Pages: 154Publication: May 2010Price: € 12,00

ATTILIO BOLZONI

FAQ Mafia

The questions we all ask about the mafia. The answers of one who can give them with authority: one of the authors of Il capo dei capi.

Much has been written about the Mafia, not to mention the films, the television series andthe plays, from The Godfather to La Piovra (The Leech). And yet its real “truth” continues toescape us: its laws, its rites, its origins, its language and propagating methods.In this volume with the usual, simple, straightforward language of the FAQ series, we lookback over the history of Sicilian Mafia, going on to examine its relations and differences fromthe Calabrian ‘ndrangheta, the Neapolitan Camorra and the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia.Mafia and religion, Mafia and politics, Mafia and finance: where are the boundaries of theMafia phenomenon?And who are the Mafiosi? Strange subjects on the verge of bestiality, or “normal” personsmingling among us, unseen, unrecognizable?

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

RRiigghhttss ssoolldd ttoo::Germany (Klett Cotta)

ATTILIO BOLZONI IS A JOURNALIST FOR

“LA REPUBBLICA”. HE HAS PUBLISHED – TOGETHER

WITH GIUSEPPE D’AVANZO – IL CAPO DEI CAPI

(2007), LA GIUSTIZIA È COSA NOSTRA (1995),ROSTAGNO: UN DELIT TO TRA AMICI (1997).WITH SAVERIO LODATO HE HAS WRIT TEN C’ERA UNA

VOLTA LA LOT TA ALLA MAFIA (1998).

Pages: TBDPublication: June 2012Price: € TBD

ELEONORA DUSE

Letters to Gabriele D’Annunzio

edited by Franca Minnucci

Epistolary New Issue

Eleonora Duse and Gabriele D'Annunzio kept up one of the most harrowing, moving loveaffairs in the history of Italian culture. The actress and the Bard first met in Venice inSeptember 1894 when they were both at the peak of their success. The Bard saw in theactress the person who better than anyone else could have exalted his future theatre andEleonora considered the author an ideal partner for her performances of Shakespeare andIbsen and her entire repertoire. Their love story and intellectual collaboration was to conti-nue until Duse's death in 1924 and, in this book, Franca Minnucci has collected over onethousand three hundred missives that they exchanged showing the totality of an affectionthat lives on through the eternal pages of history and literature. Just as Eleonora was to sayin one of the last messages written to Gabriele:“We'll talk – I'll hold you tight – Will I too tellyou? – there, the last evening or the first? Always. Always.”


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DIEGO FUSARO (UNIVERSITÀ VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE

DI MILANO) IS AN ASSIDUOUS SCHOLAR OF

THE “PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY” AND THE STRUCTURES OF

HISTORICAL TEMPORALITY, WITH A PARTICULAR ATTENTION

FOR THE THOUGHTS OF FICHTE, HEGEL, MARX AND THE

GERMAN “HISTORY OF CONCEPTS” (BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE).FOR BOMPIANI HE HAS EDITED THE BILINGUAL EDITIONS OF

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),MARX E L’ATOMISMO GRECO (2007), AND KARL

MARX E LA SCHIAVITÙ SALARIATA (2007) AND BENTORNATO

MARX! (BOMPIANI 2010). HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

INTERNET PROJECT “LA FILOSOFIA E I SUOI EROI”(WWW.FILOSOFICO.NET).

DIEGO FUSARO

Minimum Marketaly. Genesis and Criticism of Absolute CapitalismMinima Mercatalia. Genesi e critica del capitalismo assoluto

The acquisition of self-awareness on behalf of humanity was defined in Hegel’s Phenomenology ofSpirit as a “historical novel”of conscience.What we propose here, in a kind of phenomenology of the“spirit of capitalism”, constitutes instead a “gothic novel” which narrates the process with which the“monster”created by humanity is becoming progessively autonomised until it will be the undisputedmaster:capitalism,today,knows no social resistance (no class hinders it),nor political opposition (right,left and centre share the same ultracapitalistic vision of the world),nor philosophical delegitimisation(apart from rare exceptions,today’s intellectuals are “organic”- in the Gramscian sense – to the systemin force,to which they supply legitimising ideological pictures).Thus it can expand uncontrollably ona global scale,passing itself off as the “end of history”.The postmodern,secularised world in which welive has abandoned the traditional divinities, turning to a blind faith in a new monotheistic divinitythat, like all others,does not accept “competitors”: the monotheism of the market.A brand new visionof the world has arisen,passing itself off as aseptic,secular,neutral and purely economical,but it is infact a highly ideological and religious position because it holds (relegates, according to the originaletymon of religio) all the peoples of the planet to the omnipotence of one sole directive principle ofthe totality of fetishised social relations – the market.



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UMBERTO ECO

Building the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings Costruire il nemico e altri scritti occasionali

An exposure of the false truths that create ideologies and racism at the service of those in power

Every society and every individual, in order to define himself better, needs an enemy fromwhom to distinguish himself. All the racist regimes – from Nazism to Fascism – have provedit once and for all.They invented a monstrous enemy using intolerable racist arguments.Thepopulist forms of government are still proving it, pursuing consensus by finding enemies inthe immigrants, the Southerners, the homosexuals. Eco starts from this critical, anti-ideologi-cal reflection and continues with a series of ‘occasional’ writings of the most varied topics –those that have always characterised the author’s universe: the system of the media, thepolitical and “perverse” uses of science, little stories of ideas particularly dear to him (theabsolute, fire, lists... ), and small incursions into literature (from Hugo to Anna Karenina) andpopular culture. A journey through the passions, curiosities and obsessions of one of theworld’s most highly esteemed intellectuals, capable of reflecting while enjoying himself and,always, amusing us.

RRiigghhttss ssoolldd ttoo::Record (Brasil); Bard (Bulgary); Shanghai Translation (Cina); The Open Book (Korea);Mladinska Knijga (Croatia); Grasset (France); Hanser (Germany); Psichogios (Greece);Kinneret (Israel); Tyto Alba (Lithuania); Prometheus (the Netherlands); Rebis (Poland);Gradiva (Portugal); Argo (Czech Republic); Slovart (Slovakia); Polirom (Romania); Ast-RelCorpus (Russia); Plato (Serbia); Mladinska Knijga (Slovenia); R. H. Mondadori S.A. (Spain);Bromberg (Sweden); Dogan (Turkey); Harvill Secker (UK); Folio (Ukraine);Europa Konyvkiado (Hungary); Houghton Mifflin (US)


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ENZO GOLINO COLLABORATES WITH “L’ESPRESSO”,“LA REPUBBLICA”,“IL VENERDÌ” AND OTHER PAPERS. AMONG

HIS BOOKS: CULTURA E MUTAMENTO SOCIALE (1969),LETTERATURA E CLASSI SOCIALI (1976), LA DISTANZA CULTURALE

(1980), PASOLINI, IL SOGNO DI UNA COSA (1985, AVAILABLE

IN BOMPIANI POCKET SERIES), PAROLA DEL DUCE. IL LINGUAGGIO

TOTALITARIO DEL FASCISMO (1994), TRA LUCCIOLE E PALAZZO.IL MITO PASOLINI DENTRO LA REALTÀ (1995), SOTTOTIRO.

48 STRONCATURE (2002) AND MADAME STORIA & LADY

SCRITTURA. SAGGI CRONACHE INTERVISTE (2011).

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ENZO GOLINO

Beyond LiteratureOltre la letteratura

One of the most well-known militant critics, from 1972 to 1974 the author interviewed Gior-gio Bassani, Lalla Romano, Lucio Mastronardi, Domenico Rea on school; Alberto Moravia,Luigi Malerba, Raffaele La Capria, Attilio Bertolucci on nature; Carlo Bernari, Romano Bilenchi,Vasco Pratolini, Ottiero Ottieri, Paolo Volponi, Nanni Balestrini on the work of the labourer;Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tullio De Mauro, Carlo Cassola, Ignazio Buttitta, Umberto Eco on languageand dialect; Franco Fortini, Arrigo Benedetti, Alberto Moravia on history.In this book, the chorus of voices, among the most important in the cultural field (not only inItaly), evokes aspects of individual and collective sensibility that are surprisingly topical, indialogues that are never academic.

Pages: 180

Publication: September 2011

Price: € 9,90

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LUCA GUADAGNINO

Gastronomical Journey Through Italy Viaggio gastronomico in Italia

Slow Food and travelling, a journey in stages to discover the Italy of traditions

Italy is not just a place of art and unique landscapes; it’s also a land where every corner hasits own traditions, every village its specificity, every place its gastronomy.Luca Guadagnino takes us through this country to discover those little known spots whichpreserve their strong identity, and tells us of these places through their dishes and theirrecipes. A journey through gastronomic Italy – midst art, landscapes, unrepeatable experi-ences of handicraft and, above all, irresistible dishes.

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,PAOLA AND CHIARA. HE REACHED FAME IN 2005DIRECTING THE FILM MELISSA P., BASED ON

THE SCANDALOUS BOOK BY MELISSA PANARELLO.HIS 2009 FILM IO SONO L’AMORE STARRING TILDA

SWINTON, GAINED HIM A GOLDEN GLOBE AND OSCAR

NOMINATION AND ALSO WON THE ALABARDA D’ORO

FOR BEST DIRECTION AT THE 2010 ALABADA D’ORO

FESTIVAL. IN 2011 THE ENGLISH PRODUCTION HOUSE

RUBY FILMS CHOSE GUADAGNINO TO SUBSTITUTE

OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL AS DIRECTOR OF THE FILM

CORSICA ‘72, A ROMANTIC FILM IN A MAFIA SET TING,STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON.

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STEFANO LIVADIOTTI

In the Name of God. Sex, Money and Spies. The Enquiry into the VaticanIn nome di Dio. Sesso, soldi e spie. L’inchiesta sul Vaticano

Dangerous friends. Unconfessable affairs. Unofficial agreements with political parties forsharing multi-millionaire priveleges, often on the threshold of illegality. Midst shady, faction-al games, scandals and misdeeds, the Church has become like politics. But even more open-ly rich, unprincipled and arrogant in its demand for immunity for its men, more involved inoutdoing MPs in appearances on talk-shows or in court rather than at the altar.For this, the most recent surveys reveal that the Catholic population throughout the worldhas turned their backs on them. Stefano Livadiotti, author of the best sellers L’altra casta andMagistrati. L’ultracasta, in a ‘shock-enquiry’, reports all the truth about a world of power asgilded as it is hypocritical and corrupt, who doesn’t practice what it preaches. Where whatcounts is fame, money and career, common acts of crime are normal and the most hardenedpaedophiles are lovingly safeguarded.Where, in the shadow of sacred buildings packed withbugs, wheelers, mafiosi and secret agents go about their business. Where stories of weapontrading intertwine with mysterious deaths, charity is an optional, the truth a miracle and sexis made but not talked about. All this with the Pope’s approval? Anyway, in the utmost secre-cy, like any respectable lobby. And always, of course, in the name of God.

STEFANO LIVADIOTTI IS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN

SIGNATURES OF “L’ESPRESSO”: FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS HE

HAS WRITTEN ON ECONOMY AND POLITICS WITH ENQUIRIES,INTERVIEWS AND COVERAGE. BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED HIS

BOOKS L’ALTRA CASTA. L’INCHIESTA SUL SINDACATO (2008)AND MAGISTRATI. L’ULTRACASTA (2009).


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GIORDANO BRUNO GUERRI

The Italians under the Church. From St. Peter to BerlusconiGli italiani sotto la Chiesa. Da San Pietro a Berlusconi

The Italians and the Church, Rome and the Pope: a couple that, a bit for love a lot for obliga-tion, have been together for over two thousand years. The Italians owe the Church part oftheir fortune and , perhaps, a greater part of their misfortune: the Church protected themfrom the Barbarians only later to leave them disunited for centuries in the hands of foreignmasters; the Church educated them in Christian values and diseducated them in civil values.Giordano Bruno Guerri looks at this topic as a layman, but has great respect for those whobelieve or have believed (but not for those who pretend or have pretended to believe). And,as a historian, he has brilliantly reconstructed a fascinating affair that from St Peter to Ber-lusconi crosses all the most important crossroads of our history: from the Communes to thestruggles between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation, from the Decadence to the 17th and 18th centuries of the Italian Unification,up until the Second Republic. One after the other we discover the origins of many Italianevents and behaviours, even the most up-to-date, that one would consider far-removedfrom religion. GIORDANO BRUNO GUERRI WAS BORN IN THE PROVINCE

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).HE HAS BEEN EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF ARNOLDO

MONDADORI PUBLISHING HOUSE, AND DIRECTOR OF

“STORIA ILLUSTRATA” AND THE “INDIPENDENTE”. HE

TEACHES CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AT THE GUGLIELMO

MARCONI UNIVERSITY IN ROME AND IS PRESIDENT OF

THE VITTORIALE DEGLI ITALIANI.


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BENITO MUSSOLINI

Mussolini’s Diaries – 1936 vol. 3

(presumed)

The inheritance of a recently deceased ex-partisan who had participated in Mussolini’s arrestreveals a clamorous discovery: six notebooks each of three hundred pages, attributable tothe Duce and bearing a precious autographic testimony of the years from 1935 to 1942.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 theauthenticity of the writings, with illustrious supporters for and against.If the attribution of the diaries is still under debate, certain is their value and historical andartistic interest. An unpublished document recounting what took place behind the scenesduring the years that marked Italy’s modern history. The first volume is dedicated to 1939,the year of the German invasion of Poland, the spark that triggered off World War II: relationswith Hitler, vitriolic comments on the Fascist hierarchy – a day-by-day diary describing thepersonality of a statesman, his errors and weaknesses, through a text of great intensity.

Already published:Volume 1 – 1939Volume 2 – 1935

Pages: 340Publication: November 2011Price: € 21,50

UMBERTO PASTI

Gardens and Non-Gardens Giardini e no

Drawings by Pierre Le Tan

A manual of Botanic Resistance.Vices and virtues of the Italians through the gardens they cultivate .

This book is a personal, ironic manifesto of botanic resistance that, starting from the contro-versy over the gardens in fashion today, offers a cross section of our society.The author takes into consideration the gardens of fanatic collectors obsessed by the rarityand peculiarity of the species to such an extent as to forget to draw pleasure from the aspectand perfume of the flowers; the gardens of the well-to-do ladies, spoilt by an asphyxial,mechanical creativity – lacquered and fake; the billionaire gardens, status symbols showingoff their wealth, one of the maximum examples of non-garden since the owners have not acrumb of passion, relying entirely on professionals so-called garden designers; the Moorishgardens having replaced the Japanese ones in the western exoticist trend...Fortunately, in this valley of horrors, there also are some pleasant surprises like the gardensof the petrol stations – those wild and unpredictable flower beds fertilised by pollution, thatfor some bizarre twist of nature give life to surprising, touching creations.

Rights sold to:France (Flammarion)

UMBERTO PASTI WAS BORN IN MILAN. HE HAS

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES ON ART AND LITERATURE TO

INDRO MONTANELLI’S NEWSPAPERS “GIORNALE” AND

“LA VOCE”. HE HAS WRIT TEN ABOUT TRAVEL,CUSTOMS AND CURRENT EVENTS ON VARIOUS ITALIAN

AND INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS (“VOGUE”, “ELLE”,“HOUSE AND GARDEN”, “THE WORLD OF

INTERIORS”). HE TRANSLATED MARCEL PROUST’S

LET TERS TO HIS MOTHER FOR TARTARUGA

PUBLISHING HOUSE (1986). EXPERT IN ISLAMIC

CERAMICS AND A KEEN BOTANIST, HE LIVES IN MILAN

AND TANGIERS. IL SAGGIATORE HAS ALREADY

PUBLISHED L’ETÀ FIORITA (2000).

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VITTORIO SGARBI

Rome: from Renaissance to the Present DayRoma. Dal Rinascimento ai giorni nostri

VIT TORIO SGARBI WAS BORN IN FERRARA. ART CRITIC

AND SCHOLAR, HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS

EXHIBITIONS IN ITALY AND ABROAD, AND IS AUTHOR

OF VARIOUS ESSAYS AND ARTICLES. SINCE JULY 2008HE HAS BEEN MAYOR OF SALEMI. BOMPIANI HAS

PUBLISHED IL BENE E IL BELLO (2002), DELL’ANIMA

(2004), RAGIONE E PASSIONE. CONTRO L’INDIFFERENZA

(2005), VEDERE LE PAROLE (2006), CLAUSURA A

MILANO E NON SOLO. DA SUOR LETIZIA A SALEMI

(E RITORNO) (2008), L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE.UNA CARTOGRAFIA DEL CUORE (2009), VIAGGIO

SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI (2010).

Rights: Marco Vigevani Literary AgencyPages: 648Publication: June 2011

Price: € 22,00

ROSSANA ROSSANDA

VisioniVisions. Conversation with Mariuccia Ciotta and Roberto Silvestri

The last century girl, talking about cinema and political commitment

The “last century girl” in the darkened cinema. The thoughts, emotions and battles of a spe-cial spectator – Rossana Rossanda – face to face with the critics of the daily newspaper“Manifesto”.When the “Manifesto”was only about politics, in its early days, the early seventies,Rossanda was the first to fight for adding cultural pages, including cinema, to the paper. Shereviewed hundreds of films, her approach to cinema always being a moment for reflectionand militant criticism, rarely mere escapism. Visioni is a conversation on cinema and politicsfrom 1900 to today. It looks at the revolution of form and the forms of revolution from theRussian screen to Hollywood, from the avantgarde to classic cinema, to digital.

RR OO SS SS AA NN AA RR OO SS SS AA NN DD AA, BORN IN POLA IN 1924,PUPIL OF ANTONIO BANFI, ANTIFASCIST, SHE TOOK

PART IN THE RESISTANCE. LEADER OF THE PCI(ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY ) – SHE WAS EXPELLED IN

1969 SINCE SHE WAS AN EXPONENT OF THE CRITICAL

LEFT OF THE PARTY. SHE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS

OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW “IL MANIFESTO”, WHICH

LATER BECAME A DAILY PAPER. SHE WAS FINALIST AT

THE STREGA PRIZE WITH LA RAGAZZA DEL SECOLO

SCORSO (EINAUDI, 2005).

MMAARRIIUUCCCCIIAA CCIIOOTT TTAA IS A JOURNALIST AND FILM CRITIC.AMONG HER BOOKS: DA HOLLY WOOD A CARTOONIA

(MANIFESTOLIBRI) AND UN MARZIANO IN T V (RAI/ERI).BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED WALT DISNEY. PRIMA

STELLA A SINISTRA (2005) AND THE BOOK BY

ADRIANO CELENTANO, ROCKPOLITIK, EDITED BY HER.

RR OO BB EE RRTTOO SS II LLVV EE SS TT RR II IS RESPONSIBLE FOR “ALIAS”,THE CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENTS SUPPLEMENT

TO “IL MANIFESTO”. HE IS ALSO ONE OF THE VOICES

OF HOLLY WOOD PART Y, A PROGRAMME ON CINEMA ON

RADIO TRE. WITH MARIUCCIA CIOT TA HE CO-EDITED

DA HOLLY WOOD A CARTOONIA (1994) AND L’ALTRA

STORIA DEL CINEMA. LA VIDEOTECA IDEALE (2008).

Pages: 124Publication: September 2011

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In this book Vittorio Sgarbi leads us to discover Rome’s most secret places through the archi-tects, sculptors and painters who made Italy’s capital city eternal.With him we discover a dif-ferent Rome, partly known, partly unknown and ignored. Like this we can visit the wondersof Rome in a clear and easy way: in alphabetical order of place-names, authors and the mon-uments. Over 1500 sites reviewed and 3000 authors named: the largest compendium onRome’s art and its historical and artistic beauties.

A new look for a new collection:The books by Vittorio Sgarbi, a series of journeys through artguided by an enthusiastic lover of beauty

ANOTHER JOURNEY THROUGH BEAUTY.AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE TWO BESTSELLERS:

VIAGGIO SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI50.000 copies, 5 editions

L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE50.000 copies, 7 editions

RRiigghhttss ooff LL’’IITTAALLIIAA DDEELLLLEE MMEERRAAVVIIGGLLIIEE ssoolldd ttoo::Russia (Slovo)

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Rights : Format: Binding: Pages: 224Publication: November 2011Price: € 16,00

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LUCA TELESE, ALESSANDRO SALLUSTI

Berlusconeide

Two front-line journalists, one anti- Berlusconian, one pro Berlusconi (maybe); one collabo-rator of the newspaper “Fatto Quotidiano”, one editor of the newspaper “Giornale”. Bothanswering the questions that all Italians ask about their Prime Minister. Why did Berlusconienter politics? Why have the magistrates got it in for him? Does Berlusconi reflect the nation?Has he kept his promises? Is his leadership really on the brink of collapse or is it still solid?Through a brand new bipartisan experiment, this book helps understand better what is real-ly going on; a manual for confuting, or confirming, one’s own convictions concerning a lead-ing protagonist of the last fifteen years of Italian politics.

LLUUCC AA TT EE LL EE SS EE, 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”, “PANORAMA”,“CAPITAL”, “GQ”, AND “SET TE”. IN 1998 HE WENT TO

“CORRIERE DELLA SERA”, THEN “IL GIORNALE”. SINCE

2004 HE HAS COLLABORATED WITH “VANITY FAIR”AND, SINCE 2008, WITH “PANORAMA”. HE HAS BEEN

WRITING FOR THE “FATTO QUOTIDIANO” SINCE 2009.HE HAS WRIT TEN FOR TELEVISION ( THE PROGRAMMES

“CHIAMBRET TI C’È” AND “CRONACHE MARZIANE”),AND WAS PRESENTOR AND AUTHOR OF TETRIS. SINCE

JUNE 2010, TOGETHER WITH LUISELLA COSTAMAGNA,HE HAS PRESENTED “IN ONDA”, AN EVENING TALK

SHOW ON LA7 CHANNEL.

AA LL EE SS SS AA NN DD RROO SS AA LL LLUU SS TT II WAS BORN IN COMO IN

1957. IN 1987 HE WORKED FOR THE “GIORNALE”WITH INDRO MONTANELLI BEFORE MOVING ON TO

“IL MESSAGGERO”, “AVVENIRE” AND “CORRIERE DELLA

SERA”. HE HAS BEEN ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE

“GAZZET TINO” AND EDITOR OF “LA PROVINCIA DI

COMO”; SINCE 2010 HE HAS BEEN CHIEF EDITOR

OF THE “GIORNALE”.

Rights: Marco Vigevani Literary AgencyPages: 280Publication: October 2011Price: € 20,00

VITTORIO SGARBI

Full of Grace. Woman’s Portraits in ArtPiene di Grazia. I volti della donna nell’arte

After his two successes Italia delle meraviglie and Viaggio sentimentale nell’Italia dei desideri,Vittorio Sgarbi takes us hand in hand through the world of artistic representation of femi-ninity. Full of Grace recollects the many ways with which art, painting, literature and sculpturehave portrayed the woman: sacred, worshipped and distant; sinful and salacious; redeemedand unrepentant; explosive and gentle; mother and lover. Cimabue, Giotto, Piero dellaFrancesca and Raffaello, Nero da Sansepolcro, Caravaggio, Lotto, De Magistris, Balthus andBotero and many others are the authors involved in this new journey through the history ofart conducted by the most animated Italian critic. A journey full of Mystery and Seduction –an elegant and intelligent homage to femininity.

OOVVEERR 110000 CCOOLLOOUURREEDD IILLLLUUSSTTRRAATTIIOONNSS

VIT TORIO SGARBI WAS BORN IN FERRARA. ART CRITIC

AND SCHOLAR, HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS

EXHIBITIONS IN ITALY AND ABROAD, AND IS AUTHOR

OF VARIOUS ESSAYS AND ARTICLES AND A VARIETY OF

BOOKS. SINCE JULY 2008 HE IS MAYOR OF SALEMI.BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED IL BENE E IL BELLO (2002),DELL’ANIMA (2004), RAGIONE E PASSIONE. CONTRO

L’INDIFFERENZA (2005), VEDERE LE PAROLE (2006),CLAUSURA A MILANO E NON SOLO. DA SUOR LETIZIA

A SALEMI (E RITORNO) (2008), L’ITALIA DELLE

MERAVIGLIE. UNA CARTOGRAFIA DEL CUORE (2009)AND

VIAGGIO SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI (2010),ROMA. DAL RINASCIMENTO AI GIORNI NOSTRI (2011).

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UMBERTO ECO

The Infinity of ListVertigine della lista

In the history of western culture the taste for accumulation often recurs: lists of saints, for-mations of soldiers, catalogues of monstrous beings or medicinal plants, hoards of treasures,up to the parades of the 1900s, from music hall to fashion. The vertigo of the list is neitherinnocent nor casual. A culture prefers enclosed, stable forms when certain of its own cultur-al identity, while it makes lists when faced with a disorderly series of phenomena in need ofcriteria. The poetics of the catalogue therefore runs through the whole history of art and lit-erature; it is not only at work in the files of the legendary animals of the antique bestiaries, orin the celestial host of angels and those infernal of devils. We find it more transversely fromHomer to Joyce, from the treasures of the Gothic cathedrals to Bosch’s oneiric landscapes, upto the 20th century with Andy Warhol or Arman. In this book Umberto Eco reflects on how theidea of catalogue has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to the next, itexpressed the spirit of its time. Alongside his essay, a literary anthology and an ample selec-tion of works of art to illustrate and develop the presented texts.

Illustrated essay

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History of BeautyHistory of UglinessStoria della Bellezza

Storia della Bruttezza

Beauty and Ugliness are mutable, cultural attributes relative to the period and the society.What was beautifu or ugly in Ancient Greece probably did not correspond to what was con-sidered so in those same times in the Arab world, just as what the Middle Ages consideredmonstrous became seductive in certain epochs of our same culture. History of Beauty andHistory of Ugliness also look back over all Western culture (literature, philosophy, iconogra-phy), identifying the declinations of aesthetic, conceptual categories which never represent-ed absolute and changeless valves.

RRiigghhttss ssoolldd ttoo::Albania (Dituria); Brazil (Record); Bulgaria (Kibea); Canada (Flammarion Québec); China (Central Compilation & Translation Press); Croatia (Hena); Czech Republic (Argo); Denmark(Aschehough); Estonia (Estonian Encyclopedia Publishers); Finland (Wsoy); France (Flammarion);Georgia (Diogene); Germany (Carl Hanser Verlag, Deustcher Taschenbuch Verlag); Greece(Kastaniotis); Hungary (Europa Konyvkiado); Israel (Kinneret); Japan (Toyo Shorin);Korea (The Open Books); Latvia (Janis Roze); the Netherlands (Prometheus Bert Bakker); Norway (Kagge Forlag); Poland (Rebis); Portugal (Difel, Circulo do Leitores); Rumania (Rao);Russia (Slovo); Serbia (Plato Books); Slovenia (Modrijan Zalozba); Spain (R.H. Mondadori S.A.);Sweden (Brombergs); Taiwan (Linking); Turkey (Dogan Egmont); UK (Harvill Secker, Quercus Publishing); USA (Rizzoli International Publications).

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ELISABETTA SGARBI

Trilogy on the Sacred Sculpture Trilogia sulla scultura sacra

TThhee WWeeeeppiinngg SSttaattuuee Book + film in dvdThe book contains a text by Giovanni Reale and Elisabetta Sgarbi on the “lamentations” interracotta by Niccolò dell’Arca, Guido Mazzoni and Antonio Begarelli. These sculpturalgroups – masterpieces of humanistic and Rennaissance art – infer an extraordinarily intensereading on the experience of grief and separation, lightened by faith.

TThhee GGrreeaatt TThheeaattrree ooff tthhee SSaaccrreedd MMoouunntt ooff VVaarraalllloo Book + film in dvdThe Sacred Mount of Varallo rose thanks to the initiative of Friar Bernardino Caimi, who, on hisreturn from the Holy Land (at the end of the 15th century), wanted to recreate a small “NewJerusalem”. Each of the 44 chapels, with frescoes (about 4000 figures) and groups of statues(about 400), represents scenes from the life of Jesus and Mary. Among the most importantartists who have worked in Varallo are Gaudenzio Ferrari and Tanzio of Varallo. In 2003, it wasmade a World Heritage Site protected by UNESCO.

TThhee LLaasstt AAsscceenntt.. BBeenniiaammiinnoo SSiimmoonnii’’ss VViiaa CCrruucciiss Book + film in dvdA critical and cinematographic journey to discover a masterpiece of sacred art.Third volumeof the trilogy Elisabetta Sgarbi and Giovanni Reale have dedicated to sacred sculpture,L’ultima salita takes us to the heart of the 1700s, in Valle Camonica.

TTHHEE MMOOVVIIEESS HHAAVVEE BBEEEENN PPRREESSEENNTTEEDD AATT LLOOCCAARRNNOO FFIILLMM FFEESSTTIIVVAALL

GGII OOVVAA NN NN II RR EE AA LL EE, ONE OF THE LEADING SCHOLARS

OF ANCIENT THOUGHT, TEACHES AT THE VITA-SALUTE

UNIVERSITY OF SAN RAFFAELE IN MILAN.

EE LL II SS AA BB EE TT TTAA SS GG AA RR BB II IS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF

BOMPIANI PUBLISHING HOUSE. IN 1999 SHE MADE

HER DEBUT AS FILM DIRECTOR. SHE CONCEIVED THE

FESTIVAL LA MILANESIANA LET TERATURA MUSICA

CINEMA SCIENZA AND FOR ELEVEN YEARS SHE HAS

BEEN ITS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR.

Pages: 400Price: € 48,00

ANDREA MANTEGNA

The eternal spousesGli sposi eterni

WWiitthh aa ccoonnttrriibbuuttiioonn bbyy GGiioovvaannnnii RReeaallee aanndd VViittttoorriioo SSggaarrbbii

The Camera picta, better known as the Camera degli sposi, by Andrea Mantegna in Castello SanGiorgio, Mantua, has fascinated millions of spectators, travellers and sightseers and has accompa-nied generations of Mantuans. In the light of the critical observations by Rodolfo Signorini, a well-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 diSamosata) and coeval contaminations (Leon Battista Alberti) in an unprecedented dialoguebetween hermeneutics and art criticism,research into the sources and a mystery as yet unresolved.How could Andrea Mantegna portray at the very moment a particular event occurred (the com-munication of the election of Francesco Gonzaga to the cardinal throne) a whole pack of men whofrom the fifteenth century to today can still miraculously be seen on the streets of Mantua? Whatpact with eternity did the painter make when he set those everlasting faces, expressions and gri-maces on that wall? A map in which the visions of art and the landscapes of the soul are interwoven,overcoming the distance between things and places.

GGIIOOVVAANNNNII RREEAALLEE (1931) IS ONE OF THE LEADING

SCHOLARS OF ANCIENT THOUGHT, AUTHOR OF FUNDAMENTAL

CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE PRE-SOCRATES, SOCRATES,PLATO, ARISTOTLE, SENECA, PYRRHO, PLOTINUS,PROCLUS AND AUGUSTINE. HIS HISTORY OF GREEK AND

ROMAN PHILOSOPHY ( IN 10 VOLUMES, BOMPIANI 2004)HAS BECOME AN INDISPENSABLE POINT OF REFERENCE.

VVIITTTTOORRIIOO SSGGAARRBBII WAS BORN IN FERRARA. ART CRITIC AND

SCHOLAR, HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS EXHIBITIONS IN

ITALY AND ABROAD, AND IS AUTHOR OF VARIOUS ESSAYS AND

ARTICLES. SINCE JULY 2008 HE HAS BEEN MAYOR OF SALEMI.BOMPIANI HAS PUBLISHED IL BENE E IL BELLO (2002), DELL’ANIMA

(2004), RAGIONE E PASSIONE. CONTRO L’INDIFFERENZA

(2005), VEDERE LE PAROLE (2006), CLAUSURA A MILANO E

NON SOLO. DA SUOR LETIZIA A SALEMI (E RITORNO) (2008),L’ITALIA DELLE MERAVIGLIE. UNA CARTOGRAFIA DEL CUORE

(2009), VIAGGIO SENTIMENTALE NELL’ITALIA DEI DESIDERI

(2010) AND LE MERAVIGLIE DI ROMA (2011).

Pages: 350Publication: November 2011Price: € 30,00


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Pages: 648Publication: 2009Price: € 55,00

CESARE BRANDI

Travels and Literary WorksViaggi e scritti letterari

Edited by Vittorio Rubiu Brandi

“In the book you can find the same brilliant and elegant aura of the countless conversationsaround the table. His curiosity led him to explore especially the ancient civilizations.”Alberto Arbasino

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, butalso a writer in the purest, truest sense, Brandi (Siena 1906-Rome 1988) is herein presentedabove 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 “HolyRussia”, Buddha’s lands, the legendary Persia, the great wall of China, the thousand faces ofpeasant 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 thefriend 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 itscomplexity and richness. An essential critical anthology and an accurate bibliography offer onthe other hand the basic data for a further historical and philological in-depth study of thisimportant writer and man of culture.The book is edited by Vittorio Rubiu Brandi and enrichedby three introductory essays by Roberto Barzanti, Franco Marcoaldi and Vittorio Sgarbi.

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FERNANDA PIVANO

Diaries, vol.I 1917/1973, vol.II 1974/2009 Diari 1917/1973, 1974/200

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 .

When Fernanda Pivano first went to the USA, in the fifties, she was a young student in lovewith the America of those times, with a strong desire to meet face to face the masters of fic-tion who were just beginning to be known in Italy thanks to Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini.She immediately discovered a world of dreams, ideals and values that she would never gettired 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, Ernest Hemingway. From the beat generation gurus (Ginsberg,Kerouac, Corso, Ferlinghetti, men who – in the name of an idea to return to the essentialityof 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 Americanjourney, among the contradictions and secret hopes of that great, glorified and feared nationthat is, and always has been, America.

With contributions by Erica Jong, Bret Easton Ellis, Jay Mc Inerney, Gary Fisketjon


ANTONIO PIZZUTO

Dolls Repaired HereSi riparano bambole

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 tosenility, edited like movie sequences: from the richness of the early years to the poverty ofthe final ones, from childhood curiosity to old age resignation. Despite the dry, unembell-ished plot, this book is a powerful work: from a single, overwhelming memory, it develops adense and composed continuum caught before his inexorable fading-out.

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 AT TENTION TO LANGUAGE AND NEOLOGISMS

HE CONSTANTLY INTRODUCED IN HIS WRITING.PIZZUTO WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF THE LITERARY

CRITIC GIANFRANCO CONTINI, WHO CONSIDERED

HIM ONE OF THE LEADING ITALIAN WRITERS OF THE

LATE 20TH CENTURY.

Pages: 284

Publication: October 2010

Price: € 11,00


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GIOVANNI TESTORI

Works, vol. I, II, IIIOpere, vol. I, II, III

Edited by Fulvio Panzeri. With a preface by Giovanni Raboni

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, Pontedella 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 Neltuo 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, whereTestori 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 degliScarozzanti, 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, aboveall 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 2008Price: € 50,00 (each vol.)

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