His Majesty, the Pork: the work of Giulio Cesare Croce
Monday, 20 November 2017
Giulio Cesare Croce. A name that (maybe) says little until you mention three characters born from his pen: Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno. The adventures of Bertoldo the commoner, as witty to win the right to live at the court of the Lombard king Alboin, constitute one of the greatest comic texts of the seventeenth century,
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Campo Grafico: Closing in futuristic sauce
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
In the climate of Milan of the thirties with the subtitle Magazine of Aesthetic and Graphical Technique, was born “Campo Grafico.” By the will of two artists of the advertising poster art – Carlo Dradi and Attilio Rossi – and a group of printers willing to enter into the Italian graphic tradition an already transposed
Rhapsody in blue … for bibliophiles
Friday, 22 September 2017
In the beginning was the manuscript. In the form of rotulo (roll) or codex – the latter unchanged to this day for those objects called books – for several centuries to make a completely transcribed volume by hand on a support such as parchment, not the only one but undoubtedly the most widespread, had staggering
A book does not live only of its text (neither does his editor)
Friday, 31 March 2017
“Thoroughly impressed in red and black will be pretty volumes well bound in parchment-papirus and adorned with illustrations and original friezes […] a sober and astute bibliographical appendix […] a very essential spiritual bread for all those friends of culture […] the most coveted adornment, richer and less costly for all libraries and all the
And so Mickey Mouse became Topolino…
Saturday, 04 February 2017
When Kubrick, in Full Metal Jacket, chose the Mickey Mouse March for the epic finale – song entered in the US collective consciousness in the fifties – he did it for the deeply symbolic value of the character. The landing of the Disney mouse in Italy, in the thirties of the twentieth century, was no