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Spregiudicanda

ENRICO ALLIATA
Spregiudicanda.
Pensieri e aforismi
Introduction by Toni Maraini

«
Contradictions between contemplative and active life with the unmistakable hallmark of a period, the Twenties and Thirties, marked throughout Europe by Oriental thought, mystery and ‘ancient wisdom’, all this being luckily tempered, however, through the author’s use of a healthy formation and even a practical sense of existence».
CARLO CARENA, Mondo Economico

«[…] taste, books and interests characteristic of the Sicilian society of the last ‘gattopardi’ and of a world in which forgotten man and things reappear in our daily life».
PIERO LONGO, Giornale di Sicilia


ITALIAN  |  1992, xxi + 70 pp., Bio.
ISBN
978-88-7778-017-1   ~   EUR 20,00
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Guatemala

MIGUEL ÁNGEL ASTURIAS
Leggende del Guatemala
Prologue by Paul Valéry
Translated by Giorgio de Marchis and Ria Lussi

The first unabridged Italian edition of one of the most inspired
texts of the great Guatemalan Nobel laureate.

«Blend of torrid nature, aberrant botany, indigenous magic, theology: this book is to be gulped down rather than read».
PAUL VALÉRY, from the «Prologue»

«An atmosphere of enchantment and splendour, which continually moves between real and imaginary worlds and pours forth animism with which the author views the world».
GIUSEPPE BELLINI

«Asturias succeeded in handling the irrational, yet highly poetic and fascinating material of the stories and myths of the Maya».
STEFANO MALATESTA, La Repubblica


ITALIAN  |  1997, ix + 184 pp., Gloss.; idioms index.
ISBN  978-88-7778-050-8
   ~   EUR 25,00

Giardino_del_piacere

MIRKO BEVILACQUA
Il giardino del piacere.
Saggi sul Decàmeron
Preface by the Author

«
The garden, and the Decàmeron, is the birthplace of a completely new style of writing: it is the long awaited discovery of literature of pleasure and delight to be contrasted with a literature of penitence or, better still, of the plague».
MIRKO BEVILACQUA, from the «Preface»

«Having become a topic of great discussion today, the awareness of the primary sense of the garden, the place of pleasure, has been lost amongst university lecture, theatres and places of academia. This essay returns things to the rightful place».
IPPOLITO PIZZETTI

«GRINZANE CAVOUR-HANBURY» PRIZE 1996

ITALIAN  |  1995-19972, vi + 102 pp., Notes; name index.
ISBN  978-88-7778-053-9
  ~   EUR  22,00
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Burning_gold

RONIMUND VON BISSING
The Land of the Burning Gold

The exciting story of two children on their adventurous journey in search for Truth and Reality to the Land of the Burning Gold.
Through confronting situations and challenging forces, David and Mary discover the guide to their destination in a golden medallion, a ‘divine spark’ aiming to join the source where it came from.
Written for children, but read mainly by adults in search of a new understanding on how help may be come to.

ENGLISH  |  2005, x + 128 pp.
ISBN 978-88-7778-086-7
   ~   EUR 20,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Submission

RONIMUND VON BISSING
Songs of the Spirit
PART 1:  Songs of Submission

One of the most significant contributions to the mystical literature of the Twentieth century. This classic companion in the great spiritual tradition reaches the heights of inner experience where differences of doctrine dissolve and man faces his true self.

ENGLISH  |  2003, xij + 210 pp.
ISBN 978-88-7778-082-9
   ~   EUR 20,00
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Heart

RONIMUND VON BISSING
Songs of the Spirit
PART 2:  Songs of the Heart

Preface by the Author

A detailed description of the inner ‘valleys’ of the spiritual path.
The receiving by man of the force of light from above, its working within him, the joy and suffering which may be entailed, and the insight that arises with it.

ENGLISH  |  2003, ivx + 150 pp.
ISBN 978-88-7778-083-6
   ~   EUR 19,00
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Journey

RONIMUND VON BISSING
Songs of the Spirit
PART 3:  Songs of the Journey

The subtle and powerful disclosure of the spiritual journey, and the inroad into the material world which the traveller must perform to express his spiritual content into the world. Advice and warnings drawn from experience.

ENGLISH  2003, xij + 62 pp.
ISBN 978-88-7778-084-3
   ~   EUR 19,00
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Wayfarer

RONIMUND VON BISSING
Songs of the Spirit
PART 4:  Songs of the Wayfarer

This is the illuminative report of a soul standing before God: faced with the awareness of his own being, exposed to inner perception, silent, naked, loving. The vademecum for the contemporary wayfarer.

ENGLISH  2003, xij + 222 pp.
ISBN 978-88-7778-085-0
   ~   EUR 22,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Tieste

SYLVANO BUSSOTTI
Lettura del Tieste. Da Seneca
Foreword by Giovanna Morelli Luporini

«
Bussotti interprets the word of Seneca without false modesties or philological worries, even interpolating it with famous translations, and from the beginning treats it to a singular interpretation which captures and accentuates its traits despite thinning out and varying, in some details, its substance».
GIOVANNA MORELLI LUPORINI, from the «Foreword»

«Bussotti has not reinvented the Tieste. But he has, as to say, taken its bones out of it, reducing it to its fundamental core and, working on it, retelling the tragedy with a diversifying versification».
OSVALDO GUERRIERI, La Stampa

ITALIAN  |  1996, xvi + 64 pp. Notice.
ISBN 978-88-7778-023-2
   ~   EUR 18,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Quattrocento

RENZO CIGOI
Quattrocento domande a un vecchio ebreo triestino.
Colloqui con Giorgio Voghera

«A long confession, a splendid, stimulating circumnavigation of the Italy of Saba, Svevo, Slataper, Bazlen, Castelli, Pincherle, Stuparich, all the literary, artistic and cultural intelligentsia who have contributed so much to the abundance of Italian values».
LUCIANO TAS,  Shalom

«Life and literature, friendships and lovers: Voghera hides nothing; rather he tears apart all veils with lay courage».
Il Piccolo

ITALIAN  |  1996, 270 pp.; b/w ill. Bio.; bibliog.; name index.
ISBN 978-88-7778-049-2
   ~   EUR 22,00
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Forma_suono

AMALIA DEL PONTE
La forma del suono / The Shape of Sound

A self-analysis, embarked upon through ‘the making of sculpture’, an existential and artistic stopping place of the authoress in support of the memory. An action confirmed by some central points drawing an inner spatial geometry which the artist seems to trace in the knowledge attained by the ancient Vedic and Chinese civilizations, and down and beyond to the Greek culture.

ITALIAN/ENGLISH  |  1993, 76 pp.; 23 b/w ill., 14 col.; uncut. 240 x 150 mm.
ISBN 978-88-7778-021-8
   ~   EUR 28,00
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Divan

YÛNUS EMRE
Dîvân
Edited, translated and with an introduction by Anna Masala

The greatest of the mystic poets writing in the Turkish language in Anatolia to emerge from the Thirteenth century.

«We do not even know in which tomb his bones are resting, but we know that this unknown tomb will be for ever bright, bright as the mystic world which, through poetry, he describes to his people and, today, to the entire world».
ANNA  MASALA, from the «Preface»

ITALIAN  |  2001, xxv + 138 pp. Notes; bio.
ISBN 978-88-7778-070-6   ~   EUR 22,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Imago

FEDERICO FELLINI
Imago.
Appunti di un visionario

An essential contribution to the understanding of the work of one of the greatest film directors. The testimony of Fellini as an extremely private and insightful citizen of the Twentieth century.

«A hidden and quivering dimension […] extraordinary and revealing the encounters with Carlos Castaneda and LSD».
CALLISTO COSULICH

«The volume is far more useful in understanding the personality of Fellini than all of Tullio Kezich’s writings on the subject».
CINEMA SOCIETÀ

ITALIAN  |  1994-19952, xiv + 46 pp.; b/w ill. Notes; filmography.
ISBN 978-88-7778-022-5
   ~   EUR 20,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D   |   Germany: Sold

Shah-nameh

FERDOUSÎ
Libro dei Re (Shâh-nâmeh)
Preface by Majid Karshenas
Version in blank hendecasyllabes by Maria Fazia Mascheroni

The Persian epic from the creation of the World to the conquest of Iran by the Muslims. The heroic and legendary vicissitudes, ups and downs, battles and loves of the kings and Iranian heroes in their war against the Tûrans and Ahrîman.
The eternal struggle between Good and Evil in which everyone must participate with works and arms.

ITALIAN  |  2003, 708 [(c + 140) + 312 + 156] pp.; 15 b/w ill.; Gloss. 3 vols. in sliding case.

ISBN
978-88-7778-029-4   ~   EUR 45,00

Duende

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Il duende.
Teoria e giuoco
Introductions by Elémire Zolla,  José F.A. Oliver, Valentí Gómez i Oliver
Translation by Yorick Gómez Gane
WITH ORIGINAL PARALLEL TEXT

«
The duende is a power and not an action, a struggle and not a thought; it rises inside, beginning in the soles of your feet. It is not a question of faculties, rather of an authentic living style; otherwise of blood, that is to say of ancient culture, of creation in the making.

«Lorca renders crystal clear and bewilders. He presents us with a glass of vintage wine. The essay on the duende is regarded as one of the best of this century».
ELÉMIRE ZOLLA, from the «Introduction»

«We are introduced to a world of marvel, may be of magic, of which no doubts is aware who, or what, is able to lead us towards the highest intellectual pleasures».
CARLO CASTELLI, Il Sole 24 Ore

SPANISH/ITALIAN  |  1996-19982, xxix + 44 pp. Notes.
ISBN 978-88-7778-051-5
   ~   EUR 20,00

Trionfo

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
Il trionfo del sentimentalismo.
Un capriccio drammatico
Edited and with an introduction by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo
Italian rendering and postface by Ettore Brissa

The first Italian edition of an original and bizarre dramatic work, rich in ironic ideas and reveries of ‘sentimentalism’ in fashion in the Eighteenth century.

«A real treasure previously unedited in Italy, which the Publisher had the excellent idea of proposing for Ettore Brissa’s delightful rendering».
LUIGI FORTE, La Stampa

«The text is entertaining, as well as being of great historic and cultural interest, daring (Prince Ornano loves a doll) and well polished».
ANDREA CASALEGNO, Il Sole 24 Ore

ITALIAN  |  1998, xxvi + 116 pp. Notes.
ISBN 978-88-7778-061-4
   ~   EUR 22,00
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Segreti

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
I Segreti e la Massoneria
Preface by Marino Freschi
Italian version, introduction and postface by Ettore Brissa
WITH ORIGINAL PARALLEL TEXT

A collection of poetic and literary texts written by the author over the course of many years of association with the Freemasonry: some works not previously published in Italian and all in a new edition.

«I Segreti (Die Geheimnisse) […] intends to unveil the ‘secrets’ of the world which becomes accessible through initiation: a type of journey into the afterlife, not that of Dante but rather in an obscure and mysterious world into which only the initiated can enter […] the writings highlight the complexity and ambiguity of the position of Goethe who, in one way, goes back to the Enlightenment ideal of religious tolerance […] and, in the other, is immersed in the tradition of the Hermeticism and eighteenth-century esotericism».
PIETRO ROSSI, Rivista di Filosofia

GERMAN/ITALIAN  |  1999, xxx + 90 pp.; b/w ill. Notes.
ISBN 88-7778-074-4
   ~   EUR 22,00
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Akroasis

HANS KAYSER
Akróasis.
La teoria dell'armonia del mondo
Preface by the Author, postface by Julius Schwabe
Translated by Alberico von Überstätten

The general and intelligible vision of a new – and at the same time extremely old – field of research: that of harmonics: the foundation of all bioecological systems: from the mind to the arts; from philosophy to cosmogony; from psychology to nature.

ITALIAN  |  1998-20012, xv + 180 pp.; b/w ill; pls. Notes; bibliog..; name and subject index.
ISBN
978-88-7778-056-0   ~   EUR 21,00

Colore_poesia

MARIO LUZI
Il colore della poesia
Edited by Doriano Fasoli
Preface by Maria Luisa Spaziani

Thoughts and reflections of one of the greatest Italian poets of the Twentieth century.

«Not only in his poems but even in an article, in his replies during an interview, Mario Luzi's words are diamonds reflecting external light from every single facet, certainly, yet which at the same time attract from the bottom concentrated essential converging glares».
MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI, from the «Preface»

«Luzi replies in short prose and, in doing so, creates an everlasting self-portrait».
STEFANO CRESPI, Il Sole 24 Ore

ITALIAN  |  2000, ix + 118 pp.
ISBN 978-88-7778-075-1   ~   EUR
22,00
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Nuvolario

FOSCO MARAINI
Il nuvolario.
Principî di nubignosia

Introduction by
Toni Maraini

Greatly refined invention, but closely moulded to academic outlines. Scientific game, literary joke, poetic entertainment. An invitation to look at the perennial things which go beyond topical issues.

«To talk of the clouds it took someone who could find within himself and blend the inconstancy of a poet and the strength of a visionary, a culture of the olden days and a tremendous love of words, to make them zig zag across the page with the same dexterity and delight as a juggler».
MARIA A. SARACINO, Il Manifesto

«Since the stone age the clouds have been joking with bizarre forms of humanoid and colossal beings […] cloud morphology is fascinating, accompanied as it is with quotations from some of the best experts who one by one take on the task of leading us to the key of everything».
ALESSANDRO FO, New York Review of Books

«NONINO» PRIZE 1998

ITALIAN  |  1995-20013, xxiv + 64 pp.; b/w ill. Notes; bio.
ISBN 978-88-7778-020-1   ~   EUR
20,00

FOSCO MARAINI
Le Nuvolaire.
Principes de Nubignose

Introduction by Toni Maraini
Traduit de l’italien par Alain Adaken,
postface du traducteur

FRENCH  |  2000, pp. xxvii + 78,
11,4 x 16,2 cm relié, 16 photographies (bichromie) de l’auteur, Notes.
ISBN 2-905471-44-1
   ~   EUR 30,00


Tulipano

ANNA MASALA
Il Tulipano e la Rosa.
Mistici turchi dal secolo XII al XX
Edited, translated and with an introduction by the Authoress
WITH ORIGINAL PARALLEL TEXT

A journey from the Twelfth to the Twentieth century rich of discovery in the extraordinary fertility of a land which has given to spirituality its highest bards.

ITALIAN/TURKISH  |  2008, xij + 160 pp. Notes, Bio.
ISBN
978-88-7778-087-4   ~   EUR 24,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Thoughts

PRENTICE MULFORD
Thoughts are Things.
Twenty Essays from
«The White Cross Library»

Edited by Sahlan Momo, introduction by Ralph Shirley

This new enlarged edition of an evergreen book of great topical interest is the most representative collection of essays by one of the earliest pioneers of the New Thought school. His insights into the mystery which surrounds man owe nothing to books, perhaps not much to what is ordinarily meant by observation, and everything or nearly everything to reflection nourished by contact with nature.

ENGLISH  | 
2008, xxij + 268 pp., Bio.
ISBN 978-88-7778-088-1
   ~   EUR 28,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Astuzie

NASSREDDÎN KHOGIA
Astuzie & Facezie.
Il sorriso di un Maestro
Edited, translated and with an introduction by Anna Masala

The proverbs, witticisms and pleasantries of Nasreddîn, considered by many as a fool, or as a possessor of previously unknown intelligence, or a holder of mystic secrets, are used by the sûfî dervishes both as ways of illustrating the ancient characteristics of the human mind, and as an instrument to gain access to a superior wisdom through the solution, in the consciousness, of its contradictions.
The largest collection of the most unpredictable, saucy, entertaining and transgressing of wise people’s proverbs ever to appear in a Western language.

ITALIAN  |  2002, xxij + 342 pp.; b/w ill. Bibliog.
ISBN 978-88-7778-033-1
   ~   EUR 22,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D

Calendario

DIONYSUS PETAVIUS
Antico calendario romano
Introduction, translation and notes by Massimiliano Kornmüller
WITH  INTERLINEAR  LATIN TEXT

T
his is the first translation into a modern language of the ancient Roman calendar – complete with festivals, indications of the movements of the stars and weather forecasts – which Petavius [Denys Petau] (1583-1652) took from Ovidio’s Fasti, Columella’s De Agricoltura and Pliny’s Naturalis Historia.

LATIN/ITALIAN  |  1992, x + 26 pp.; 2 col. text, 12 plates in gold. 270 x 210 mm.
ISBN 978-88-7778-013-3   ~   EUR 20,00
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Astrolabio

SHAMS NADIR
L’astrolabio del mare
Preface by Jorge Amado, introduction by Leopold S. Senghor
Translated by Dahlijani D. Laglace

«
In this book of rare beauty, Shams Nadir enriches ancient knowledge with the modern vision, whilst yet remaining faithful to eternity, cultured – over time – by the voice of prophets, poets, ballad singers, in short, by the voice of the people. A tremendous book».
JORGE AMADO, from the «Preface»

«[…] his work dwells in the search between art and writing – structure and form topic of the textual message – attempting to discover, thanks to a strictly technical and cultural survey, the mythical depth of Islâm and the ‘writing’ of the sacred».
MAJID EL-HOUSSI, Il Manifesto

ITALIAN  |  1991, xiij + 114 pp. Notes.
ISBN 978-88-7778-018-1
   ~   EUR   22,00
IR I G H T S   |   W O R L D   |   French: Sold

Divan-i

JALÂL AD-DÎN RÛMÎ
Dîvân-i Shams-i Tabrîz.
Forty-eight Ghazals

Edited and translated by Iraj Anvar
Foreword by Peter Chelkowski, introduction by Mohammad ‘Alî Movahed
WITH  ORIGINAL PARALLEL TEXT AND CD

One of the most celebrated poets of world literature and one of the foremost cantors of Islamic mysticism informs these lyrics with the inebriation of the pinnacle of knowledge and paradox. To read him is a profound and spiritual experience.

ENGLISH/PERSIAN  |  2002-20103, xxiv + 146 pp.; b/w ill.; Notes; Bio.; Bibliog.; Gloss.
170 x 130 mm.
ISBN 978-88-7778-094-2   ~   EUR 25,00

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