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