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The Incredible Journey of PlantsStefano Mancusowatercolors by Grisha Fischer

Stories of pioneers, fugitives, veterans,fighters, hermits, time travelers: theseare the extraordinary stories of plants.When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understandthat these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways andmeans plants use to move, we can see the incessant action and drive tospread life, which has led plants to colonize every possible environmenton earth. The history of this unstoppable expansion is unknown tomost people. We can begin our exploration by reading the stories toldby Stefano Mancuso, and traveling with the imagination thanks to thepoetic watercolors of Grisha Fisher.

Stefano Mancuso is one of the world’s leading authorities in the fieldof plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication atall levels of biological organization. He teaches at the University ofFlorence and has published more than 250 scientific papers in international journals. He is in the ranking of New Yorker “worldchangers” and his works are widely translated all over the world.

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“Mancuso advocates for a 2ndCopernican revolution, of sorts.Just as medieval people had toconcede that the stars and planetsdon’t orbit Earth, we must acceptthat the living world doesn't revolve around us.”Maclean's

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The revolutionary challenge to spread another feminism.

Feminism for the 99%A ManifestoCinzia Arruzza Tithi Bhattacharya Nancy Fraser

From three of the organizers of the International Women’s Strike. A manifesto for when “leaning in” is not enough.The mainstream media continues to equate feminism with liberal feminism. But far from providing the solution,the liberal feminism is part of the problem. Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change,border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don’t these issues impact the vastmajority of women globally? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this Manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: Feminism shouldn’t start (or stop) with seeing women represented at the top of society. It must start with those at the bottom, and fight for the world they deserve.And that means targeting capitalism. Now that the system of liberal values is in crisis and we are experiencing a new international feminist wave, wehave the space to create a new feminism: anti-capitalist, anti-racist and eco-socialist.

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96 pages/Politics; Feminism

Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Dangerous Liaisons;The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism;and A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant inPlato’s Republic.

Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor andDirector of Global Studies at Purdue University.She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class,Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal andthe editor of Mapping Social Reproduction Theory.

Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the NewSchool for Social Research. She is the author of Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalismto Neoliberal Crisis and of Scales of Justice: Reimagi-ning Political Space in a Globalizing World.

Are we really at the gates of a new regime?

Who is Fascist Emilio Gentile

“Fascism is back.” Today the alarm has reached the highest level. But what if this new mantra only serves to hide the real problems of our time?

144 pages/Politics; History

One hundred years after the foundation of the Fasci di Combattimento on March 23th, 1919 the alarm for anew fascist danger is circulating. Characteristics of the new fascism would be: the sublimation of the people as avirtuous collectivity opposed to corrupt politicians and corrupters, the contempt of parliamentary democracy,the need for strong leaders in the governments, nationalism, hostility towards foreign migrants, and the defenseof traditional religious identity. Among the rulers of the new fascism are Trump, Erdogan, Orbán, Bolsonaro,Di Maio, Salvini. In other words, because communism has passed away, socialism has disappeared, and liberalism has evaporated, fascism has now, at the beginning of the 21st century, an extraordinary revenge on theenemies who had defeated it in 1945. But are we really witnessing the rebirth of a historical, up-to-date and ma-sked fascism? Are the neo-fascists who proclaim the advent of a 'fascism of 2000,' right? To what extent is thenew fascism an updated revival of historical fascism?Emilio Gentile, the most important scholar of fascism, tries to answer these questions and shows that talkingabout the return of fascism, and of eternal fascism, is not only devoid of historical meaning, but aggravates the misin-formation about what fascism really was.

Emilio Gentile is a historian of international renown. He isemeritus professor at La Sapienza University of Rome. He received the Hans Sigrist Prize at the University of Bernafor his studies on the religions of politics. Among his mainworks published by Laterza, all widely translated: Il culto del lit-torio; Le religioni della politica; Il fascismo in tre capitoli; E fu subitoregime. Il fascismo e la marcia su Roma (Città delle Rose Prize andPremio del Presidente at Viareggio Prize); Il capo e la folla; Mussolini contro Lenin; 25 luglio 1943 (Acqui Storia Prize 2018).

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Only a new internationalism and the creation of a new world liberation movement can restore to democracy the power to drive and not suffer the future.

Your Homeland is the Whole WorldLorenzo Marsili

From one of the new voices of the European left, this is an upstream vision that supports the overcoming of the national dimension as a way to return radicality to our thoughts andutopia to our politics.The great gap between a world in rapid transformation and our inconclusive national debates is evident to all. The global crisis of our time sees a complex of economic, ecological, technological and migratory challenges that no nation is any longer able to control. The result is an extraordinary provincialisation of our political forms with re-spect to the new planetary powers confronting humanity. Against prevailing common sense, the book argues that our political crisis and our sense of loss of control dependon the withering away of the privileges of Western primacy and on the death of the nation as the prime historicalsubject. The nationalist uprising of our time is but the most immediate effect of the twilight of the nation-state. Through a well-researched and captivating narration, and mixing philosophy, history, economic and political thoughtas well as storytelling, the text sketches a new political and cultural vision to reclaim and liberate our world. Startingtoday and engaging each of us.

192 pages/Current Affairs; Politics

Lorenzo Marsili, is the cofounder of transnationalNGO European Alternatives and, with Yanis Varoufakis,an initiator of pan-European movement DiEM25. Hepreviously worked in cultural journalism in London andBeijing, where he founded the journal Naked Punch. Hislatest book is Citizens of Nowhere (Zed Books 2018, Su-hrkamp Verlag 2019). He regularly writes, among others,for Al Jazeera, the Guardian and the Nation, and is a regularguest on BBC World, France24 and RAI. He has degrees in philosophy and sinology from the University of London.

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with Yanis VaroufakisThe Thrid Space: beyond establishment and populism

SimilaritiesA Path for Cohabitation Francesco Remotti

Identity is division, dichotomy; it separates us from the others by cutting the similarities off at the root. However, before any division, aren’t the others similar to us? Furthermore, after the division, don’t the similarities come backwith the force of their unexpected resilience? From the ancient philosophersto the contemporary ones, from the scientific thought to the ways in whichpeople are considered in other societies, what is brought to light is a theory ofsimilarities, which leads to grasping ties and intertwinings, not only betweenthings, but within things. In this way, together with identity, also the conceptof individual is lost and, as in biology, in its place we find the “withindividual”.

Francesco Remotti, professor emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, member of the Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei, has carried out ethnographic and ethno-historical research in Equatorial Africa and theoretical reflections on identity and similarity, as well as on the anthropo-poiesis.

The myth of identity doesn’t work anymore. An essentialjourney into the grounds of cohabitation.

This book is a light in the midst of the craving

for identy we’re living today

The Psychological Roots of Inequality Chiara Volpato

Social disparities are responsible for the collective unhappiness that besiegesour societies: they spread distrust, weaken social cohesion and, with it, democracy. Why, then, are the attempts to fight them so few and weak? And the dominants, how do they justify their priviledge? This essay examineshow inequalities are concealed, accepted and also faced, by exploring the mechanisms of absolution or guilt at play. From one side, themembers of the upper classes are convinced that they possess the “right stuff ”and deserve their privileges. From the other side, those who suffer inequalitytend to accept it.

Chiara Volpato is a professor of Social Psychology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She deals with group conflicts, dehumanization, inequalities.Among her publications, Dehumanization. How to Legitimize Violence (2011) andPsycho-sociology of Machismo (2013).

Why don’t the dominated rebel against the dominators?For impossibility? For fear? Or are there deeper psychological reasons?

An important contribution to the understanding of the inequalities of our time.

400 pages/Antrhopology

272 pagesCurrent Affairs; Psichology

The DNA of criminal organizations: from Cosa Nostra tothe 'Ndrangheta, up to the Rome’s “mafia”.

Criminal ModelsGiuseppe Pignatone - Michele Prestipino

Two of the major protagonists of the recent Italian judicial history reveal mafias’ models: structures, characteristics, differences, strengthsand weaknesses.

240 pages/Current Affairs; Politics

Mafias are not invincible - as demonstrated by the reaction of the State against Cosa Nostra - but it is essentialto know them thoroughly. Giuseppe Pignatone and Michele Prestipino reveal the characteristics and transforma-tions of the mafia organizations they have dealt with in their long experience, from Palermo to Reggio Calabria,up to the most recent investigations involving Rome. The book analyzes the DNA of the Sicilian mafia and theCalabrian one: the organizational structure on which both are based, the 'family' in which one enters through so-lemn ceremonies and, finally, the system of relationships that link them to external subjects (entrepreneurs and managers, politicians, bureaucrats, freelancers). A large part - up to date with the latest decisions of Roman judges - is focused on the presence of the mafia in Rome. And it is through the Roman events that we can face acentral aspect in the mafia practices: the systematic use of corruptive and collusive methods, without ever forgetting that mafia and corruption are two different things. Finally, the authors examine the most recent andborder scenarios of economic crime, which are particularly worrying because of the expansion of the mafias,and how the penetration of illicit investments into the legal economy endanger the very foundations of demo-cratic life.

Giuseppe Pignatone, a judge since 1974, is a District Attorney of the Republic of Rome, after a long experience at thePalermo Public DA's Office and then, from 2008 to 2012, at thehead of the Reggio Calabria’s Public DA's Office. For Laterza heis the author, with Michele Prestipino, of Il Contagio. How the'ndrangheta has Infected Italy (edited by Gaetano Savatteri, 2012).

Michele Prestipino, a judge since 1984, is Deputy Prosecutor of Rome, after being part of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Palermo and has been an adjunct attor-ney at the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria. ForLaterza he is the author, with Salvo Palazzolo, of Il Codice Proven-zano (new edition 2017).

“No one is able to tell us what themafias are today better than Giuseppe Pignatone and MichelePrestipino.”La Stampa

The League’s Black BookGiovanni Tizian - Stefano Vergine

What happened to the 49 million euros from the electoral reimbursementsfraud outlined by Umberto Bossi? Why does Matteo Salvini lie when he sayshe has never seen a euro of that treasure? Who are the new party financierstoday? What secrets lie behind the close alliances of the Lega leader withVladimir Putin and Donald Trump?The League’s Black Book is an exceptional inquiry into the party of MatteoSalvini. It is based on important documents so far unpublished.

The main scoop claims that Vladimir Putin is funneling $3 million to Matteo Salvini throughdirty diesel to help swing European elections towards Russia-friendly candidates. If it is true,it would mean that Salvini’s Lega would be financed for the European parliamentary electionsby a Russian state-owned company. In short the “The main Italian government force is supported by Putin, the number one enemy of the E.U.”

Giovanni Tizian and Stefano Vergine, journalists, received the Franco Giustolisi Justice and Truth Award 2018 for their investigations on the League.

An investigation-book reveals for the first time the financial and political plots of Matteo Salvini's party.

An exclusive investigation that has been shared and re-launched by the major

newspapers all over the world

The Execution5-Stars, from Movement to GovernmentIacobo Icacoboni

The experiment, which is what the foundation and development of the 5-StarsMovement initially was called to be, included an execution plan all along. In par-ticular the convergence with the League party of matteo Salvini is not dictatedby the political contingencies following the national vote of March 4th, 2018but was imagined a long time before, based on three common objectives: theNorthern Revolution against taxes, the closing of borders to migrants and, laterin time, a plan b for a possible exit from the euro.

Jacopo Iacoboni, journalist, works at La Stampa since 2000, where he alsoholds the column “Arcitalian Politics.” In recent years he has, among otherthings, followed the birth of the Renzi phenomenon in the PD party and theexplosion of the 5 Stars Movement in Italy. Among his works: Votantonio (Donzelli 2006), Profondo rosso. La sinistra perduta(Einaudi 2009) e Contro l’Italia degli zombie (Aliberti 2012), L’esperimento. Inchiestasul Movimento 5 Stelle (Laterza 2018).

A journey-investigation into the world of the 5 Stars thatreveals all aspects of their transition from movement toparty in power.

336 pagesInquiry; Politics

312 pagesCurrent Affairs; Politics

An underground war is ongoing in Catholicism to putFrancis up against a wall.

Francis’ Lonelyness A Prophetic Pope; a Church in Stormy SeasMarco Politi

After the international success of FrancisAmong the Wolves, the best known Italianvaticanist returns to take stock ofFrancesco’s pontificate in his most difficult season.It is a tormented season. There are attacks from all sides, cardinals against the Pope, and atheists who support hiswords. Priests, theologians and cardinals conduct a systematic work of delegitimization against him, to the point ofdemanding his resignation and accusing him of heresy. An example above all: it is striking to think that many of theepiscopal conferences in recent years have made passive resistance to the line of “zero tolerance” advocated byBergoglio against cases of pedophilia. However, the contrary front within the Church has not been the only difficultobstacle of recent years; even the international scenario has become more complex for Francis. With Trump’s USthere is no communication: the US president ruggedly rejects the agreements on climate and migration, which are sodear to the Pope. In Italy Matteo Salvini preaches the opposite of the pontiff when it comes to migrations, waving arosary and buttering up the traditionalist wing of the clergy and bishops. In Eastern Europe nationalist leaders usexenophobic Christianity. Meanwhile, the Church is in trouble. Religious practice and vocations fall inexorably. Femaleorders have collapsed. Women are fleeing the Church, unhappy because the greater decision-making role promisedthem is not rolling out. Despite everything, Francis remains tenacious and continues to fight for a Church committed to justice and the com-mon good. The twilight of the pontificate may perhaps still reserve surprises.

240 pages/Current Affairs; Politics; Religion

Marco Politi, internationally renowned Vatican insider, is a leadinginternational expert on Vatican issues. Writer for the newspaper ilFatto Quotidiano and Vatican correspondent for la Repubblica for almost twenty years, he has also worked with ABC, CNN, BBC,RAI, ZDF, and France 2. With Carl Bernstein he wrote the international bestseller His Holiness (1997) on John Paul II. His 2004interview with Joseph Ratzinger indicated him as a potential pope.His other publications include: Pope Wojtyla. The farewell (2007) published by Morcelliana; The Return of God (2004), I, Gay Priest(2006) and The Church That Says No (2009) published by Mondadori.With Laterza he published Joseph Ratzinger. Crisis of a papacy (2011 -where he predicted Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation and FrancisAmong the Wolves, widely translated all over the world.

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Is the law always right? How do you behave when whathappens to be legal goes against your conscience?

The Conscience, the Law Raffaele Cantone - Vincenzo Paglia

Inequality, immigration, security, corruption: on these and many other crucial issues of our time there is a different viewpoint depending on whatidea of justice we take.

184 pages/Current Affairs; Politics; Religion

From the most current and controversial issue of the reception of migrants, to corruption, to the systems of repression, to the way of understanding punishment and forgiveness. Raffaele Cantone and Vincenzo Paglia, astatesman and a man of the Church, confront each other without prejudice or hypocrisy, starting from their different visions of the world. With a sense of purpose that they stubbornly follow page after page, they try to understand and define what is right and what is wrong. With the humblest of means: examples taken from theirprofessional experiences, especially those that call into question our conscience - those that the law seems unableto codify.

Raffaele Cantone is president of the National Anti-Corruption Authority. Already a deputy prosecutor inNaples, in 1999 he joined the district Anti-Mafia directorate.He was then the DA assigned to the office of the maximumat the Court of Cassation. Among his most recent publications, Il male italiano (con G. di Feo, Rizzoli 2015), Lacorruzione spuzza (con F. Caringella, Mondadori 2017) e Corruzione e anti-corruzione (con E. Carloni, Feltrinelli 2018).

Vincenzo Paglia is president of the Pontifical Academy forLife and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for the sciences of marriage and the family. SpiritualCouncilor of the Community of Sant’Egidio, he is in the“Men and Religions Association”. He received the GandhiPrize from UNESCO, the Mother Teresa Award from the Albanian government, the Ibrahim Rugova Award from the government of Kosovo and the honor Nobile Amigo from thegovernment of El Salvador. For Laterza is the author of Ilcrollo del noi (2017).

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Vincenzo PagliaThe Collaps of US

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Francesca Mannocchi uses her rigor and her reporters-courage to transform a story that nobody wants to hearinto a great (true) novel of our time.

Let Everyone Carry Their Own Guilt Chronicles From the Wars of Our TimesFrancesca Mannocchi

An eye-witness book, as moving as it isperturbing, that for the first time listens to the perpetrators of the violenceof the conflict, and not to the victims.

In our minds we have clearly separated persecutors from victims, the West from chaos, and we have reassured ourconscience with simple and comforting stories. We managed to draw a border between human and inhumane: we described terrorism, attacks, and torture as synonyms of inhumanity, and we removed them from our mind. In this way ISIS was an unknown monster that had to be destroyed, and the lands on which it had landed, into failedlands to leave to their marked destiny. Yet all this is valid until we try to look closer, to see how essentially humanthings remain, even where we thought there was no need to look twice...

There is not a single portrayal in Everyone Carries Their Own Guilt that does not stick to our mind: the widowed womenof militia ready to be mothers of other martyrs, the children of the executioners of ISIS next to the children of thevictims of ISIS in the same refugee camp, the young orphans of the Caliphate who hoped to immolate themselvesin an attack and now having lost a leg stare into emptiness, the adolescent terrorists who look like boys from any suburb of the planet. What will be born from these seeds that ISIS has left behind before the military defeat?

Francesca Mannocchi, 1981, is a freelance reporter and film director.She works with TV (Rai3, LA7, SkyTG24) and magazines includingL'Espresso, Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye and The Week. Her workfocuses on the story of migrations and conflict zones like Iraq, Libya,Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt and Afghanistan. She followed and reported on the wars in Gaza, the coup in Egypt in 2013, the wars tofree Sirte and Mosul from the occupation of ISIS. She made the documentary on Syrian children exiled in Lebanon, If I Close My Eyes,presented at the Rome Film Festival in 2016. In 2018 the documentaryIsis, Tomorrow. The lost Souls of Mosul with the photographer Alessio Ro-menzi was presented at the Venice Film Festival. The documentaryis about the sons of Isis militants. She won the Giustolisi Prize with herreporting about the smuggling of migrants and the Libyan prisons.She won the 2016 Premiolino.

The strength of the book liesin its ability to give voice to a painful humanity, restoring allits moral ambiguity.

The book concludes the workstarted with the documentaryIsis Tomorrow. The lost soulsof Mosul, acclaimed at the Venice Film Festival.

160 pages/Reportage; Middle East

The Viscious Triangle Tyrants, Terrorists and the West Iyad el-Baghdadi

Today, the citizens of the Middle Eastern region are stuck in a false and oppressive dilemma: they are forced to support the autocrats in exchange forsecurity and stability, or they are to stand with Islamic radicalists to break theyoke of the tyrants and avenge their oppression. The third option is to undergo the military intervention of foreign governments, which in turn support the tyrants more or less explicitly, or are radicalists themselves in view of future economic and strategic benefits. This is a vicious triangle, inside which there are common citizens who bear the weight of repression,lose their rights, their ability to act and, in many cases, their lives.

Iyad el-Baghdadi is one of the most important Arab activist. During theArab Spring from his Twitter account he informed the international audienceday by day about what was happening. In April 2014, he was arrested in theUnited Arab Emirates, the country where he grew up after being born stateless in Palestine. Expelled after a few weeks from prison, today he is a political refugee in Norway.

From one of the most influential activist of the ArabSpring season, a new take on the dynamics of power in the Middle East.

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Mohammad Pope and EmperorMarco Cavina

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 appeared to its contemporaries as anepoch-making event. It marks the end of an empire; but it is also the origin ofdreams, aspirations, legends, prophecies, bankruptcy projects, as well as uncontrolled voices. Like the surprising success of the legend, put into circula-tion then, according to which Muhammad would have been not only Christian, but pope in pectore. This is a sign of how strong the desire to endthe violence was, and also an attempt to start the interreligious dialoguebetween Christianity and Islam...

Marco Cavina is Professor of History of Medieval and Modern Law at theUniversity of Bologna and has taught at the Universities of Modena andUdine.

Muhammad II, the conqueror of Constantinople; he whoput an end to a bimillennial Empire that was considereduniversal.

240 pagesCurrent Affairs; Politics; Middle East

176 pagesHistory

Niccolò MachiavelliReason and MadnessMichele Ciliberto

Realism and madness: it is in this tension never solved that the uncommon, indeed exceptional, character of Machiavelli lies in contrast to his contemporaries. Niccolò Machiavelli is considered one of the greatest theorists of political reason. But he is also a visionary. While his skill in analyzing situations, power relations, and alternatives, is extraordinary, he isalso able to lean beyond the ordinary canons, to see beyond real situations, topropose excessive and extraordinary solutions. In other words he is also capturedby madness, but meant in a totally secular and worldly way, without any contact with the Christian folly of Erasmus.

Michele Ciliberto, president of the National Institute of Renaissance Studiesand national member of the Accademia dei Lincei, teaches History of Modernand Contemporary Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa anddirects the magazine Rinascimento.

Niccolò Machiavelli: who was he actually? Beyond themyth, this is a new and original interpretation of his lifeand works.

The Archive of the World When Napoleon confiscated history Maria Pia Donato

While the empire was extending from the Vistula to the Danube, Napoleonmade a plan to transfer the most important archives of the annexed countries to Paris: a“World Archive,” which would bring together all the testimonies andwritings of civilization. Dozens of officials, literary men, gendarmes, and workers were mobilized. Thankfully with the Restoration the documents eventually made their way back (almost all), to seal the new order that emergedfrom the Congress of Vienna and the nascent Europe of nations.

Maria Pia Donato is Director of Recherche CNRS at the Institut d’histoiremoderne et contemporaine in Paris. She is professor at the University ofCagliari. She has carried out research and teaching activities, among others, atthe Warburg Institute in London, at EHESS in Paris, at the Pontifícia Univer-sidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro and at New York University.

1809: Napoleon starts the confiscation of all archives inEurope. A massive venture to make Paris the capital ofthe world.

This book tells the titanic and craziest dream ofNapoleon, born from the aware-ness that who owns the archives,owns History. And who ownsHistory, controls the future.

192 pagesHistory

328 pagesModern Philosophy; History

When Life Meets You Half Way Lucretius, Seneca and UsIvano Dionigi

“A book that, as soos as you open it up, surprises and faces you.”Enzo Bianchi

Lucretius and Seneca are the paradigms of two rival conceptions of the world.Every time you set yourself up for the one, you doubt yourself that perhapsreason stands with the other: they are the icons of the bigamy of our thoughtand our soul. This book finds Seneca and Lucretius talking about issues thatconcern us: happiness, politics, truth, as if it were natural to have them meetin the close and lively form of a dialogue.

Ivano Dionigi has been the Dean of the University of Bologna. He is professor of Latin Grammar and Literature and directs the Study Center“La permanenza del Classico” of the same University. He is also president ofthe Pontifical Academy of Latinity. His last book is The Present is Not Enough.The Latin Lesson (Mondadori, 2016).

Facing the classics, to know who we are.

Dante A Life In ExileChiara Mercuri

June 1302: Dante is forced to leave Florence. Sending someone into exile inthe Medieval Florence meant cutting that person from all contacts, destroyinghis nest, throwing his house down stone by stone, pillar by pillar.

“Chiara Mercuri is one of the most talented Italian writers. Yet she is a historian! [...]Througha strong narrative she tells us the story of a brave intellectual enemy to the Florentine power,who is deceived, humiliated, exiled. [...] Dante challenged the politics of manipulation, decep-tion, ambush. He was condemned by the Court of Florence for concussion, extortion andpeculation. In reality, he had only tried to change the Florentine power, and to take it awayfrom the arrogant blades of Corso Donati and entrust it to a board of experts and talentedmen. Dante was the first enemy of an ante litteram populism.”Roberto Saviano

Chiara Mercuri has specialized in Medieval History in France. She currentlywrites for the magazine "Medioevo." For Laterza she published La Vera Croce.History and Legend from the Golgotha in Rome (2014) and Francis of Assisi. HistoryDenied (2016), that sold more than 10.000 copies.

Starting from the tragedy of exile, Dante’s life comes back to surface.

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144 pagesClassics; Ancient Philosophy

224 pagesHistory; Memoir

CarnivalA World Festivity Giovanni Kezich

The origin of carnival as a masked ritual is lost in the mists of time: it coincedes to the cyclic return of the deads to life at the beginning of the newagrarian year. These ancient ceremonies find new syntheses, still recognizabletoday, in the carnival masquerade: the Lupercalians, horned and frighteningbell-ringers, the Ambravals, white auspicious hoppers, and the Saturnali, roguepranksters. The Carnival becomes the antiphon necessary for Lent: a feast forthe stomachs and dissipation which is opposed to the phase of penance andexpiation. Protagonist of the urban popular culture of the European Reinaissance, the Carnival followed the ‘fortunes’ step by step, and finally conquered the great European cities of the eastern shore of Latin Americaand Louisiana, becoming part of the global scene.

Giovanni Kezich, anthropologist, is one of the greatest scholars of folklorein Italy.

An enchanting ride through the centuries, on the path of the most ancient (but still vital) masked ritual in the world.

Carnival is a game without borders: masks, costumes, names, colors and even

materials are the same from the Balkans to Portugal

The Palio of SienaDuccio Balestracci

The Palio di Siena is not just a horse race. It is the summary, in little more thanone minute, of a story that is not only about horses that run, and that is noteven just about Siena. The Palio di Siena was founded in the XVII century, andonly in the XIX century took its current medieval appearance. From this pointof view, the Palio is a striking example of the invention of tradition!Moreover, the festival has not remained unchanged over the centuries. Therace has been redefined in all its components by the history of the times: thenational history and, in some cases, the international as well. The Palio is a kaleidoscope through which we can make a journey throughtime and centuries of city festivals, while recognizing all the same the originalaspects merging in that of Siena.

Duccio Balestracci teaches Medieval History and Medieval Civilizations atthe University of Siena. He has published numerous books. Among the mostrecent Terre ignote strana gente. Storie di viaggiatori medievali (2008) e La battaglia diMontaperti (2017).

A fascinating historical account of the events that surround themost famous horse race in the world.

232 pagesAnthropology; History

240 pagesHistory

This book is for those who love books. For those who arecurious to know who thinks of them, where and how.

FlapsJourney Through Fourteen ItalianPublishing HousesCristina Taglietti

Have you ever wondered what is hidden behind the doors of a publishing house?

160 pages/Publishing

Publishing houses are, first of all, homes. Oval meeting tables replace dining tables, small closets become kitchens, cellars are not only deposits, but also libraries and audio book recording studios. Small imprints are inapartments of a few rooms, large groups in entire buildings or custom-designed offices. This book starts fromhere: it guides the readers behind those doors, shows them who lives in those rooms, where the books we readand love are put together, how great international bestsellers get to the tables of editors, and finally, what is thepath from manuscript to bookstores. A journey that leads us through the various names of Italian publishingworld and its peculiarities, passing through the spaces and words of its protagonists. From Milan to Palermo, hi-storical or newly born imprints tell us about the identity they embody, the entrepreneurial model they have married, the personality of those who guide them or the changes they have been able to face. A book that conquers the attention and curiosity of all those who consider books as life companions, and themselves as part of the community of readers.

Cristina Taglietti has worked for over twenty years at the Corrieredella Sera, where she deals with books and publishing for the culturalpages.

The publishing houses in the book:Feltrinelli – Gems – Einaudi – Mondadori – Sellerio – Zanichelli – Il Mulino – NN – Bao – Edizioni e/o– Giunti – il Castoro – La nave diTeseo – L’orma

A book that comes out at the right time after decades ofsilence and removal.

Small TownA Common Story of HeroinVanessa Roghi

A private story of a young girl who livedin her small town when her father got arrested for drugs in the 80s. Now shetries to come to terms with all this. Withthe rigor of an historian, as well as withthe love of a daughter.A memoir masterfully written that deals with a story, so far, never told: that of heroin. Tens of thousands ofdrug addicts, a disappeared generation on which a veil of oblivion has been laid on. A story especially relevantnowadays, in a time when the issue is dramatically returning.

“When my father gets arrested for heroin dealing, I am 15. I am in high school, and I don’t tell anyone in schoolabout it. I can’t find the words to do it, although, I don’t think I even look for them. It is something that hashappened, and that is it. There are two clear images from those days in my mind. The first; my father walking inthe Union Street, hugging his partner. He can’t keep himself upright. I think he is drunk. I don’t understand.The second; my uncle telling me that my father is in jail because he is a drug addict, and taking me to see him.The prison: small, almost an apartment. His cellmate locked up there because he hunted a pheasant illegaly. I reconstruct images, sentences from the past, and suddenly, I understand everything. Everything? I see the smalltown and its inhabitants.”

Vanessa Roghi, historian, is the author of documentaries for LaGrande Storia on Rai TV. She teaches Contemporary History at theRoma Tre University, History and TV at La Sapienza University ofRome. For Laterza she published The Subversive Letter. From Don Milanito De Mauro, the power of words (2017).

“Just when heroin returns forcefullyon the scene, the book by VanessaRoghi comes out, which tells the 70swith lightness and wisdom.”Matteo Nucci, Il Venerdì

Best Book 2019 of the highquality ranking of L’indiscreto

230 pages/Memoir; History; Autofiction

A proletarian epic, moving and ironic, written from thelower layers of life.

108 metresThe new working class heroAlberto Prunetti

Alberto: he is the new working classhero. And although he thinks he is socool and far from his family’s socialclass, being son of workers not onlycan you see it, but indeed you can feel it from a mile.A brilliant memoir that is a bit of a novel, a bit of an essay on the other side of the brain drain: the exodus ofyoung Italian people in the UK looking for a definitely unqualified job. And so a new proletariat mixes with thelocal one: from old sailors to actors who end up working in lurid kitchens. In the background, Brexit and the im-poverished working class that seeks its own pride. A story among fights, beers, football and characters of oldnovels reborn in the kitchens of Bristol, all while the ghost of Baroness Thatcher haunts the protagonist. Andwhen Alberto decides to return to his home-town in Tuscany, Piombino, after a thousand comic misadventures,he finds the same devastation he left. Piombino is now a city that has lost its factories and pride, so similar to thedesert that invades all of Europe. A proletarian epic dense with Yemeni servants, Turkish masters of Italian restaurants, a rosary of injustices thatthe narrator lives and narratively veers between the comic, the moving and the grotesque.This is a book in which we laugh a lot and we are moved a lot too, because the six dynamic chapters are inter-spersed with ‘a back to the origins’ that is a return to Tuscany, to the 108 meters of rails fused in the blast fur-nace of Piombino, now off: it is there that everything has a tender beginning and a tragic end (that of his fatherRenato).

PS: 108 meters is the standard length of the railway tracks built in Italy in the past but adopted everywhere.

“There are not many Italian authors at this level. Being pleasantbut also inconvenient and annoying.Controversial but always profoundly human does not normally lead to winning prizes.For those who don’t care about theprizes, hats off: we have a greatnovel.”Valerio Evangelisti

Alberto Prunetti (Piombino, 1973),translator and editor, he lived in England,working as a cleaner, pizza chef andkitchen assistant. He published Amianto.Una storia operaia (Alegre) translated intoFrench by Agone.

Rights sold to:Ekdoseis Aprovletes (Greek)

146 pages/Fiction

Palermo is An Onion RemixRoberto Alajmo

Every book should have the aspiration to become eternal. This book hadstarted on this path with the first edition of Palermo is an Onion in 2005. Buttime passes, and the city has changed; in many ways for the better. Of course, there is always the reckoning with the eternal propensity to drown.Every two steps forward always corresponds to a step backwards, one to theright and one to the left. Yet we know that, Sicilian history has never been aone-way journey, rather a tortuous dirt road. The City is by its nature restlessand unresolved. In the warping of its plots there will always be a mistake, inthe hottest pitch you will always find at least a piece of filth.

Roberto Alajmo was born in Palermo in 1959 and still lives there today, writing and working for the Italian television network RAI. He has publishednumerous works, many of which have won prestigious literary prizes in Italy.

Palermo is a fragile and cruel city. It is capable of turning a kiss into a bite, and always with the same lips.

Wild TriesteLuigi Nacci

Trieste is the city of Maria Teresa, of the castle of Miramare, of Princess Sissi,of the sailing regattas, of the cafes, of the Mitteleuropean skies, of UmbertoSaba, Italo Svevo, and of the largest square in Europe facing the sea. All true.But the inexhaustible charm of this city isn’t just that. There is another Trieste.That of Joyce and of those who, like him, spent the nights among taverns andinfamous places, in the midst of the human crowd of immigrants who cameto seek their fortune in a metropolis that until little before had just been ananonymous village. There was then, and still is today, a Trieste of dark alleysand humanity that kicks to emerge, of characters at the limit between geniusand madness that ask to be remembered.

Luigi Nacci, born in 1978 in Trieste, is a poet and writer. His book Alzati ecammina (Ediciclo 2014) won the Albatros-City of Palestrina Award for travelliterature. For Laterza he is the author of Viandanza. Il cammino come educazionesentimentale (2016).

Trieste is the extreme border of every city and every periphery. A wild and complex margin with which we all, sooner or later, haveto confront.

The wild beats on the doors of the(apparently) so well-kept center; itemerges from the waters of the im-perial Hapsburg port. It is a wild

and liberating force. Are we willingto see it ourselves to turn wild too?

192 pagesNarrative non fiction

192 pagesNarrative non fiction

Bruno Munari“One of the most influential designers of the twentiethcentury... Munari has encouraged people to go beyondformal conventions and stereotypes by showing themhow to widen their perceptual awareness.” International Herald Tribune

Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational de-signers of all time, described by Picasso as “the newLeonardo”. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children'sbooks, advertising, cars and chairs - these are justsome of the subjects to which he turns his illuminating gaze.

Nothing comesfrom nothingpp. 392/with Illustrations

There is a creative capacity alive in everyone of us. Among thegreat works by Munari, this is thebook that perhaps makes the rea-der happiest due to the enchantingdemonstration that knowing howto design is not an exclusive andinnate gift.

Rights sold to: Misuzu Shobo (Japanese) - Gustavo Gili (Spanish)Edicoes 70 (Portuguese) - Pyramyd (French) - Doosung (Korean)

Design as Artpp. 256/with Illustrations

This book is an illustrated journeyinto the artistic possibilities of modern design. The designer re-establishes the long-lost contactbetween art and the public, betweenpeople and art as a living thing.

Rights sold to: Penguin (English) - Gustavo Gili (Spanish)Edicoes 70 (Portuguese) - Pyramyd (French) - Doosung (Korean)Shanghai 99 (Chinese/China Mailnald) - Aronov (Russian) d2d (Polish) - Faces (Chinese/Taiwan) - Asia (Hebrew) Rubato (Czech)

Artist and Designerpp. 114/with Illustrations

In extremely lively and entertai-ning pages, the theme of the increasingly separation betweenpure art and art production -inextricabily linked to the industrial production and massconsumption.

Rights sold to: Gustavo Gili (Spanish) - Mizusu Shobo (Japanese) - Edicoes 70 (Portuguese)

Fantasiapp. 224/with Illustrations

Fantasia, invention and creativity: isit possible to understand how thesehuman faculties work? How are theyrelated to intelligence and memory?Munari answers these questions in aclear, accessible prose.

Rights sold to: Gustavo Gili (Spanish)- Mizusu Shobo (Japanese)Edicoes 70 (Portuguese) - Doosung (Korean) - Aronov (Russian)Czuly Barbarzynca (Polish)

Design and Communicationpp. 384/with Illustrations

What is graphic art? Who arethe designers? How does theircreativity work? An entertainingguide to understanding the principles, rules and applicationsof design...

Rights sold to: Gustavo Gili (Spanish) - Edicoes 70 (Portuguese) Pyramyd (French) - Doosung (Korean) - MizusuShobo (Japanese)

Other titles

Indios, Chineses, Forgers

Giuseppe Marcocci

Rights sold to:Oxford UP (English worldwide)Alianza (Spanish worldwide)People’s Oriental Publishers (Chinese simpl.)

Mediterraneo in 20 Objects

Amedeo FenielloAlessandro Vanoli

From the pan to the ship, 20 objectsthat speak, strong and loud: they tellus what the Mediterran is. The sea between the lands, a sort of huge lake.

In Search of Lost Books

Giorgio Van Straten

Rights sold to:Suhrkamp (German)Pasado y Presente (Spanish)Actes Sud (French)Pushkin Press (English)Giangdong People (Chinese)Unesp (Portuguese/Brazil)Mujintree (Korean)Pantheon (Turkish)Elsinore/2020 (Portuguese/Portugual)

Food Mirages

Marcello Ticca

Rights sold to:Vogais/2020 (Portuguese/Portugal)Nika (Turkish)Senac (Portuguese/Brazil)

How many times have we heard thatfish is good for memory, or that fruitmust be eaten far from meals (andpossibly eat its skin too); or also thateggs are bad for the liver, and finallythat rice is lighter than pasta? Toobad; they are all lies!

Francis of Assisi

Chiara Mercuri

Rights sold to:Edhasa (Spanish worldwide)Loyola (Portuguese in Brazil)Paraclete Press (English worldwide)

The Brilliant Language9 reasons to love ancient greek

Andrea Marcolongo

Rights sold to:Europa Editions (English worldwide)Piper (Germany)Patakis (Greek)Taurus (Spanish worldwide)Les Belles Lettres (French)Wereldbibliotheek (Dutch)Sandorf (Croatian)Gradiva (Portuguese)Bookie (Korean)

New York is an Open Window

Paolo Cognetti

Rights sold to:Stock (French)Navona (Spanish) Navona (Catalan)

This literary and emotional tour of NYexpresses the metropolitan soul of PaoloCognetti, the other face of his literarypersonality.

Sibyl's TearsThe history of the men who invented banks

Amedeo Feniello

Rights sold to:Other Press (English worldwide)

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Recent published translations

Recent acquisitions

The Value of EverythingMaking and Taking in the Global Economy

Mariana Mazzucato(The Wylie Agency)

On Populist Reason

Ernesto Laclau(Verso Books)

How democracies die

Steven Levitsky Daniel Ziblatt(Baror International)

Politiques de l’inimitie

Achille Mbembe(La Decouverte)

Emma Griffin, Industrial Revolution. A World History(The Wylie Agency)

Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto(Trident Media)

Barry Strauss, Ten Caesars(Simon & Schuster)

Owen Jones, The Politics of Hope(David Higham)

Branko Milanovic, Capitalism Alone(Harvard University Press)

Abhijit Banerjee - Esther Duflo, Good Economics(The Wylie Agency)

John Dickie, The Craft(Andrew Nurnberg Associated)

Christopher Clark, European Spring(The Wylie Agency)

Johann Chapoutot - Christian Ingrao, Hitler (PUF)

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