When a small guide becomes a best-selling. The guides to the churches This is the guide to the Saint Father Luigi Bondini wrote in 1910, is small and his cover is a bit worn, as it is convenient to the booklets that were often browsed. The paper guides of monuments and churches are now really...
Grafica Gutenberg Editrice di Bergamo in 1976 edited by Carlo Angelini The 1976, year in which this volume is published, is an important year in Italy: in May there is the earthquake of Friuli, in June the PCI makes inception of votes, in July the disaster of Seveso, while in the meantime continue the years of lead,...
edited to Amsterdam Father Noël-Antoine Pluche father Noël-Antoine Pluche (1688-1761) The spectacle of nature, tomo II, Contenant ce qui regarde les dehors & l’intérieur de la Terre Succede often that something arises from a precise idea, in particular a book, with a purpose already prefixed in the author's mind, that is to write then. It's not...
Author: Pierre Bulliard Printed in Paris 1784 De l’Impreimerie de Monsier If this book had been printed today it would probably end up in the shelves dedicated to hobbies, near the cookbooks and not far from those concerning potted plants. And it would not be wrong at all because this was the intent...
Intro di arch. Robert Caplain publisher Librairie de la Construction Moderne, Paris, late 1920s There was once the cinema and every cinema was different: there were those who in the 1970s were already vintage with the rigid seats and the worn velvet, there were the poorest ones with the wooden seats, there were the richest ones,...
1743 Author: Father Giovanni Maria della Torre, Engraver Filippo de Grado I was coordinating the transport, immersed in half closed and half open boxes, attached and concentrated to give the correct indications verifying that they were understood and executed. Anyone who has never had command tasks can not know how much effort it requires to do things. ...
In the Tana del Bianconiglio I found this box. I know the words Parma 2018. It means that at the end of the fair of Parma, those ten days in which at Mercante in Fiera hundreds of antiquarians expose their goods (and sell it and then, as they are real traders buy it also from other traders) the goods comes...
the origins and journaling: Germany and England The figurines to be cut out to be used without any purpose except to spend time, are born in Germany around the middle of the nineteenth century. The second industrial revolution was in place and the German printers, who were first of all entrepreneurs, needed a fast market,...
In the early 19th century I obviously brought home some objects, among these two small oil paintings of the late 18th century early 19th which represent the Vicenza countryside and not knowing how to recognize the exact place, in the house we called them "the two Vicenza paintings". In the chaos of the "door here, put in...