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BOMPIANI
SPRING
RIGHTS LIST
1929_2019
1
Spring
2019
rights list
2BOMPIANI FICTION
HIGHLIGHTS Andrea Camilleri Now Tell Me All About You 8
Giulia Caminito A Day Will Come 9
Paola Capriolo Marie and Herr Mahler 10
Bianca Pitzorno The Dream of the Sewing Machine 11
Lidia Ravera Enduring Love 12
Flavio Soriga In My Veins 13
FICTION Emanuele Altissimo Light Stolen from the Day 14
Mario Baudino Mussolini’s Violin 15
Guido Barbujani Everything Else Is Temporary 16
Gianfranco Calligarich Last Summer in Town 17
Mario Fortunato Berlin Voices 18
Loredana Lipperini Black Magic 19
Salvatore Maira I Was a Stranger 20
Edoardo Nesi The Story of My People 21
Roberto Pazzi Towards Saint Helena 22
Antonio Scurati M – Son of the Century 23
MODERN Corrado Alvaro Man is Strong 24
CLASSICS
Alberto Moravia Two Women 25
Alberto Moravia The Conformist 26
Guido Piovene The Furies 27
Guido Piovene Italian Journey 28BOMPIANI NON FICTION BOMPIANI NON FICTION
REFLECTING Guido Barbujani The Invention of Human Races 31 I L L U S T R AT E D Giancarlo Ascari Bridges, Not Walls 51
ON OUR TIME TITLES
Stefano Bartezzaghi Banality. Commonplaces, Social 32 Pia Valentinis
Networks, Semiotics
Umberto Eco History of Beauty 52
Andrea Dusi How to Fail at Funding a Start-up and 33
History of Ugliness 52
Be Happy
The Vertigo of the List 52
The Book of Legendary Lands 53
N A R R AT I V E Francesco De Carlo My Brexit 34
NON FICTION
Eleonora Matarrese The Wild Cook 54
Roberta Scorranese Take Me Where You Were Born. 35
Going back to Abruzzo
Simone Perotti Atlas of the Mediterranean Islands 55
BOOKS Mario Baudino Don’t You Know Who I Am? 36 Sergio Risaliti Gustav Klimt ª56
ON BOOKS
Giampiero Mughini Oh, the Wonderful Smell of Books! 37
Alessandra Sarchi Happiness of Images, Weight of Words 38
BOMPIANI YOUTH BOOKS
BIOGRAPHIES Nicola Attadio Where the Wind Is Born. Life of Nellie Bly 39
Renato Minore Rimbaud 40 CHILDREN Mario Bellini Design Explained to Children 59
& YA
Luca Scarlini The Last Queen of Florence 41
Chiara Carminati Out of Focus 60
Gaia Servadio The Most Famous Italian in the World. 42
Life and Adventures Nicola Cinquetti The Giro of 1944 61
of Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Paolo Di Paolo Daddy Gugol 62
PHILOSOPHY Francesco Tomatis The Mountain Way 43
Luca Doninelli The Detective Wickson Alieni 63
RELIGION Carlo Maria Martini To Be a Neighbour 44 Umberto Eco Three Tales 64
SPIRITUALITY Eugenio Carmi
Alberto Porro How to Survive the Catholic Church 45
Without Losing Your Faith 65
Alberto Moravia Prehistory Stories
Wu Ming 4 The Little Kingdom 66
MODERN & Roberto Finzi A Short History of the Jewish Question 46
CO NTEM P O R A RY
H I S T O RY Caterina Roggero History of Independent North Africa 47 Nadia Terranova Homer Was Here 67
Vanna Vinci
NATURE Tiziano Fratus Jonah of the Sequoias 48 John Steinbeck Letter to Thom about Love 68
Shout
ART & DESIGN Mario Bellini Travels, Objects and Projects 49 Beppe Tosco The Owl and the Girl 69
Zosia Dzierzawska
SCIENCE Giovanni Caprara An Italian History of Space 50 Alessandra Valtieri The Silk Princesses 70Fiction BOMPIANI
HIGHLIGHTS
Andrea Camilleri HIGHLIGHTS
Giulia Caminito
Now Tell Me All about You A Day Will Come
O R A DI M M I DI T E U N G IO R N O VER R À
Camilleri has written his most intimate about him when she grows up. That’s why A little village in central Italy at the to the mysterious force that holds them
book: a letter to his great-granddaughter to he writes this letter, wittily and sincerely beginning of the 20th century. Two together. Zari was born in Sudan, forcedly
tell her who he is, to hold hands with her recalling a whole life, enlightning the brothers and a black nun. The winds of kidnapped as a child and converted: very
across time. moments that made him who he is. From change blowing fast. A gripping novel, few people know that is the origin of “la
a theatre show in front of the Fascist full of hope and courage. Moretta”, the little black one, the abbess
What will last of us, in the memories hierarch Pavolini and a mafia massacre in of the cloistered convent of Serra, who
of those who loved us? How will our Porto Empedocle to the encounters with Lupo and Nicola Ceresa are born at the with her music and strength is the polestar
life be told to our descendants? his future wife Rosetta and with Elvira very beginning of the 20th century, last sons of the whole community. The winds of
Andrea Camilleri is writing when his Sellerio, each episode is a way of talking to the baker of the little village of Serra change are blowing too hard: socialist and
great-granddaughter Matilda comes about what makes life worth of living: de’ Conti, in the Marche region. Their life anarchic ideals open up the boys’ eyes, and
in and starts playing under the table. He roots, love, friends, politics, literature is tough, just like everyone else’s in their then the Red Week of 1914, the Great
realizes he doesn’t want others to tell her and doubt. village of miserable farmers who watch War, the Spanish Flu... For Lupo, Nicola
their children die one by one. Rebel Lupo and “la Moretta” everything is bound to
and frail Nicola manage to survive, thanks change.
ANDREA CAMILLERI GIULIA CAMINITO
was born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, in 1925. He devoted himself was born in Rome in 1988. She graduated in Political Philosophy vivid personality, well known throughout the Italian communities
to theatre and wrote many books, such as the ones dedicated to at Roma Tre University. Her mother is an author of books for in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her first book, La grande A, was
Commissario Montalbano, which made him famous worldwide. children. Her father, a writer as well, is originally form Asmara published in 2016.
and his grandmother and grandfather met in Assab. Her great-
grandmother drove a truck, sold contraband alcohol and was a
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8 9HIGHLIGHTS
Paola Capriolo HIGHLIGHTS
Bianca Pitzorno
Marie and Herr Mahler The Dream of the Sewing Machine
M A R I E E I L S I GNOR M A HL E R IL SO G N O D ELLA MACCH IN A D A CU CIR E
A great composer harbouring a deep admirers but knowing Gustav has finally Bianca Pitzorno’s grandmother taught town, who defends the job that makes
sorrow. A young girl opening her eyes onto found peace after years of interior struggle. her how to embroid and to sew and, as her independent, and spends her time in
the world. A hut in the woods where to She is Marie, the young daughter of the she didn’t use a thimble, predicted she’d the sewing rooms of upper class houses.
rediscover silence and music together. owner of the Bauernhof where Mahler become an ungovernable woman. Bianca She’ll soon discover she is the involuntary
spent his last three summers. Marie, still kept on like that, sewing her stories recipient of all the hidden secrets of those
1911. Just a few months before premiering a child and yet a woman, was his little eccentricly and bravely. In her latest families, way more gripping than any
his incredible Ninth Symphony, Gustav servant when he retired to the hut in novel the protagonist is a day seamstress, feuilleton. But a day will come when she
Mahler dies in Vienna. He is only 51. At the middle of the woods to compose his born at the end of 19th century in a small will live as a protagonist, too.
the same time, in a village in the Tyrolean masterpiece. The two developed a special
mountains, a girl watches over him from relationship. Marie could be the only one
afar, grieving as the most ardent of his to have understood him.
PAOLA CAPRIOLO BIANCA PITZORNO
(Milan, 1962) debuted in 1988 with La grande Eulalia, a collection viaggiatore. Her works were awarded many important prizes and was born in Sassari, Sardinia, in 1942. Since 1970 she’s published col falcone (1982), Speciale Violante (1989), Ascolta il mio cuore
of short stories, and wrote Il nocchiero, Il doppio regno, Vissi were translated in many countries. She is also an essayist and a about 50 books both of fiction and non-fiction, of adult and (1991), Re Mida ha le orecchie d’asino (1996), La bambinaia
d’amore, Una di loro, Qualcosa nella notte, Una luce nerissima, writer of children’s books. She is a freelancer for “Il Corriere della children literature. She sold more than 2 million copies in Italy francese (2004), La vita sessuale dei nostri antenati (spiegata
Il pianista muto, Caino, Mi ricordo e Avventure di un gatto Sera”. and her books have been translated into many languages. She is a mia cugina Lauretta che vuol credersi nata per partenogenesi)
a translator of many authors, from Tolkien to Sylvia Plath, from (2015).
David Grossman to Tove Jansson. Among her books, La bambina
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10 11HIGHLIGHTS
Lidia Ravera HIGHLIGHTS
Flavio Soriga
Enduring Love In My Veins
L’ A M ORE C HE DURA N ELLE MIE VEN E
A novel about the things untold, about review. He got offended and she wants to An island, two cousins as different as day transfusions, that is, from others’ lives and
how love changes through the years apologize. But there is another fault that and night, many gambles, a great love, a choices. Nothing has been easy for him:
and doesn’t lessen nor weakens: it just he is unaware of and she would like to vow and their whole lives to forget it. not as a child, when he was too intellectual
becomes different. confess, but doesn’t know how to do it. for his fellow children, not as an adult,
She is ready to see him when an accident Aurelio Cossu was born in Uta, a village too sceptical to fit in the world he works
Emma and Carlo have a date, though stops her or maybe delays her. close to Cagliari. He is a TV author for. His only moments of authenticity are
not a love one. Forty years ago they The tale of a love born out of the feminist and travels from Sardinia to Rome and those spent with a mysterious Corsican
discovered love together, twenty years ago revolution, a love that endures, resists even Milan, bearing a hard legacy in his veins: fugitive he finds himself taking food to
their marriage ended: Carlo flew to New as they grow apart from one another and he suffers from thalassaemia, a blood during a crucial summer that will cast its
York and Emma stayed in Rome. Now he from their youth. What is it that keeps disease that makes him dependant on shadow on his life for years to come.
is a famous director and she an out-of- them bound? How can love still be present
time idealist. He shot a film about their after so many year?
lovestory, she tore it to pieces on an online
L I D I A R AV E R A F L AV I O S O R I G A
is born in Turin and became famous in 1976 with her debut novel, was born in 1975 in Uta, Cagliari. He debuted in 2000 with “Per un pugno di libri” and founded of “Sulla terra leggeri”,
Porci con le ali, a real generational manifesto and longseller. She Diavoli di Nuraiò (Italo Calvino Prize). With Bompiani he published a summer literary festival in Sardinia. His works have been
published more than thirty narrative works, three of which (Piangi Neropioggia, Sardinia Blues (Mondello Prize), L’amore a Londra e translated into many languages.
pure, Gli scaduti and Il terzo tempo) are published by Bompiani. in altri luoghi (Chiara Prize). He is author of the RAI TV programme
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12 13Emanuele Altissimo Mario Baudino
Light Stolen from the Day Mussolini’s Violin
L U C E RUBAT A A L GI ORNO IL VIO LIN O D I MU SSO LIN I
Two brothers in the mountains. A pain granddad are in Aosta Valley, in the A group of friends searching for a rare of friends, the so-called Pious Convent,
nobody wants to mention. How much chalet their parents bought before dying. book, a key to a double mystery. A who pass their time chatting about books,
sorrow can we take in exchange for love? Granddad hopes the amazing setting will detective story set in the Italian province, while drinking Barolo Chinato. But a book,
bring peace to Diego, who even manages witty and agile. a very rare book, The Catastrophe of the
“Permissible stress” is the name engineers to find a job in a summer camp. Olmo Duce, or a farewell music, ignites their
give to the maximum stress a building can is the only one to understand that Diego Duccio Tancredi, called “the Boss”, thirst for adventures. A phantom book
stand before collapsing. And what about is slipping away in a universe of his, a transformed the stationary shop of his little about the last days of Mussolini which has
human beings, families and the love that delusion that seems to be growing up to town into a sanctuary of second-hand, suddenly become most wanted. What’s so
keeps people together? the sky. And he would give anything to ancient and valuable books. In the back of interesting about it, except the fact that it
Olmo, his older brother Diego and their save Diego. A beautiful, gripping debut. the shop he usually meets with his group can’t be found?
E M A N U E L E A LT I S S I M O MARIO BAUDINO
was born in 1987 in Turin, where he graduated discussing a thesis lives in Turin where he works as a journalist for “La Stampa”. He is che uccide, Per amore o per ridere, Il gran rifiuto, Ne uccide più la
on David Foster Wallace before attending the Scuola Holden. author of the collections of poems Aeropoema, Grazie and Colloqui penna. Bompiani also published Lo sguardo della farfalla (2016)
con un vecchio nemico and of novels and essays, such as Il mito and Lei non sa chi sono io (2017).
Italian literature hasn’t presented us with such a debut for
years. An intense and measured young narrator.
Fulvio Panzeri, “Avvenire”
A long settlement of score with pain, an intense tale
that Altissimo leads on with delicate involvement and
unadorned style, fast in narrating, essential in dialogues.
Ermanno Paccagnini, “La Lettura – Corriere della Sera”
A moving book, a clean, direct language, a splendidly
written debut.
Valeria Parrella, “Grazia”
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14 15Guido Barbujani Gianfranco Calligarich
Everything Else Is Temporary Last Summer in Town
T U TT O I L RE S T O È P ROVV I S ORI O L’U LTIMA ESTATE IN CITTÀ
A quiet man, a thriving trade between beautiful wife, a placid ability to ignore his A 1973 publishing event that keeps moving his time in a boheme of alcohol, run-down
Northeastern Italy and the Balkans. own conscience. But when he decides to and involving readers after 40 years. hotels, dinners at rich and well-educated
And then music, a young love, a woman expand and gets in contact with a group of friends’, that help him not to starve. He
victim of a recent war, some murky, risky unsuspectable mafiosi, he meets Iriljana, Leo, a young man from Milan, arrives in has no aspiration whatsoever. While all
business: everything collpases, melts, a young cellist marked by the Yugoslavian Rome in the years following the economic his friends want to graduate, get married,
changes. A novel about who we think we recent war horrors. She’s twenty years boom. There, in a city drenched in the get rich, he doesn’t: it feels better to let
are and who we really are. younger, and Gianni Schuft, the man dolce vita atmosphere, he falls in love with himself go in that sweet alienation of
who thought he knew how to handle life the unpredictable femme fatale Arianna. the city, embodied by Arianna, crazy and
Gianni Schuft’s life is a quiet one. He has perfectly, will go down the path that leads Going from one job to the other, unable irresistible.
a thriving business in the furniture market, to his ghosts. to pass the shadow line of age, he spends
a net of discreet but ruthless coworkers, a
GUIDO BARBUJANI GIANFRANCO CALLIGARICH
(1955) worked at the State University of New York in Stony Brook Prize), Europei senza se e senza ma, Sono razzista ma sto was born in Asmara, Eritrea, from a family from Trieste. He Secolo. He was awarded many prizes for his plays. He is author of
and in the universities of London, Padua and Bologna. He now cercando di smettere (with Pietro Cheli), Contro il razzismo (with grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked many novels, among which L’ultima estate in città, Principessa,
teaches Genetics, at the University of Ferrara. He was awarded Marco Aime, Federico Faloppa e Clelia Bartoli), Gli africani siamo as a journalist and screenplayer. He wrote many successful Posta prioritaria, La malinconia dei Crusich (winner of Viareggio-
the Napoli Prize for Italian language and culture in 2014. Among noi (shortlisted for the Galileo Prize), Il gene riluttante (with Lisa programmes for RAI and in 1994 was the founder of the Teatro XX Rèpaci Prize), Tre uomini in fuga.
his books, the novels Dilettanti, Dopoguerra, Questione di Razza Vozza) and Il giro del mondo in sei milioni di anni (with Andrea
(Hemingway Prize) and Morti e sepolti; the essays L’invenzione Brunelli).
delle razze (Merck-Serono Prize and shortlisted for the Galileo
E N G L I S H S A M P L E T R A N S L AT I O N AV A I L A B L E The most beautiful love story of the year.
Barbujani assembles, page after page, “Il Giornale”
a powerful, terrible and flawless tale, so
engaging that, once one starts reading, it The true quality of this novel is the way it
is impossible to let go. enlightens, with a desperate clearness, a
“Il Messaggero” relationship between a man and a city, that
is, between crowd and loneliness.
Natalia Ginzburg
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16 17Mario Fortunato Loredana Lipperini
Berlin Voices Black Magic. Short Stories
L E V O C I DI BE RL I NO MAG IA N ER A. R ACCO N TI
The portrait of a city through hundreds of to get back by falsifying the date on his A collection of short stories in which life, the lies of a friend, her husband’s
unexpected interwoven stories. papers. From Isherwood and Auden, Hitler supernatural events taunt everyday life. estrangement, and give her the power
and the Reichstag Fire, Thomas Mann’s Women becoming witches and witches of hurting others to fix her present. Lilli
The author depicts the history of Berlin, two sons who fled Germany in ’34 and changing into women. Perturbing presences confronts her best friend Giulia’s ghost, died
“a city that is not but is constantly returned in ’45, to the fall of the Wall told possessing the unfathomable truth of young and now resolved to take over Lilli’s
becoming”, starting from the memoir of his through the experience of a scientist who, mystery. life and be a mother to her daughter.
first trip to Berlin at the age of 28, shortly for professional reasons, has the chance to A collection of short stories whose characters
after losing a friend. The Wall is still there, go often to the East and one day decides to Cecilia lives in regret after a terrible row are depicted on the verge of a life-changing
he stays on the Western side, then moves remain there (on the very eve of the fall!), withMichele just a few minutes before decision, on the border between reality and
over to the East. He meets S., spends up to the city’s most recent architectural, his death, but she manages find him again magic. Loredana Lipperini pays homage to
one night with him at great risk since his urban and social transformations. during an obsessing journey into an elevator. the genres she loves in a goosebumps-giving
permit has expired, but then manages Two crystals, bought in a street market, book.
show Elena fragments of her family’s secret
M A R I O F O R T U N AT O LOREDANA LIPPERINI
has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi naturali, and Super Mondello- Città di Palermo Prizes), Quelli che ami non is a journalist and a writer and the voice of “Fahrenheit” on Rai
immigrate (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti della guerra muoiono, Tre giorni a Parigi, Le voci di Berlino, Noi tre and Tutti i Radio 3. For Bompiani she also published L’arrivo di Saturno.
(finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of the Mondello nostri errori.
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18 19Salvatore Maira Edoardo Nesi
I Was a Stranger The Story of My People
E R O ST RA NI E RO STO R IA D ELLA MIA G EN TE
Two young workers in the Northern Italy Adele, a young nun, sick with doubts, is The story of a broken dream. An Italian where the money earned in a carefree,
building yards. A nun in crisis. A tough coming back to Italy for her grandmother’s epic recalling many American stories. high-spirited, even ill-mannered way was
tale of immigration, violence, of drowned funeral. She opens her nana’s empty house openly displayed in luxury goods. Then
and saved. to an Egyptian family, who has just been Once upon a time the Italian Provinces came the gurus of globalisation saying that
evicted. Saro and Adele meet and together, were rich, happy and very productive. things had to change, going on television
Saro and Karim: one is from Sicily, one united by their love for what is right and They traded with foreign countries, were to sponsor markets in China and claiming
from further away. They meet at the pure, try to heal, carrying each other’s on intimate terms with the Big Ones the old model – where things were going
station in Milan and start working together cross every day. A sorrowful novel, brutal abroad, and were proud of having not well – was going badly. This is “the story
in the building yards of Northern Italy, but graceful, about a certain violent and only a national but also a communal of my people”, the people of a happy and
sleeping in garages. Almost slaves. Just like suspicious Italy, about some parts of our identity. There was a time when even the intelligent province, sacrificed in the name
Bashir, their cook and protector, who lost country living in endless defence from idiots could money in a nation where the of globalisation.
his wife and child while crossing the sea. what is different. GNP increased by two figures per year,
S A LV AT O R E M A I R A EDOARDO NESI
was born in San Cataldo, Sicily, and taught at the La Sapienza festa, Amor nello Specchio, Valzer, that were awarded important was born in Prato in 1964. Bompiani published Fughe da fermo, fermo, translated David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and has been
University in Rome. He wrote many essays, about baroque theatre, prizes in many international festivals. For Bompiani he published Ride con gli angeli, Rebecca, Figli delle stelle, L’età dell’oro e Per carrying on his family’s textile company.
about cinema and literature, about Svevo, Pirandello and Verga. also his first novel, Diecimila muli (2016). sempre. He wrote the screenplay and directed the movie Fughe da
He screenwrote and directed movies such as Donne in un giorno di
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A great epic novel, with many genres piling up. Rights sold: Spanish (Salamandra), World English (Other
Press); Turkish (Alfa Yayinlari); Slovenian (Cankarjeva zalozba);
This book is real fun and reminds us that Macedonian (Ars Studio)
Italy has yet to face its Nuremberg trials.
“la Repubblica”
A thick and engaging novel, crowded with
a myriad of characters and stories that, like
Chinese boxes, tell of an epic endeavour,
where black misery intertwines with hope
for a new future.
“Il Venerdì”
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20 21Roberto Pazzi Antonio Scurati
Towards Saint Helena M – Son of the Century
V E R S O S A NT’E L E NA M – IL FIG LIO D EL SECO LO
A man who can’t surrender and thinks he very early on October 14th, 1815: his last A grand, ambitious work that leads us to a novel? Yes, were he not the man who, more
can change the course of the events even night on board after months of sailing. revive the twenty years that changed Italian than any other, marked Italian history in the last
if the ship he’s on vanishes in the fog. A A beautiful stowaway visits him in his history forever. A journey through Fascism to 100 years. Many essays and papers have been
historic novel presenting us with a human dreams – or maybe not: Eugénie, the refound our consciences beyond any ideology. written about every aspect of his figure, but
portrait of Napoleon. heroin of his never-published novel, or nobody ever investigated his life as if it were a
his mother and all the ghosts embodying He is like a beast. He feels the time is coming. novel, a novel in which nothing is fiction. Nor
The isle of Saint Helena is to appear in the memories of the great events he was He smells it. He can smell a tired country, tired its characters, from Mussolini to D’Annunzio,
front of him at the break of dawn, but protagonist of. of its politicians, moderate and reasonable. He from Margherita Sarfatti to Matteotti, nor the
Napoleon shuts himself in his cabin is smart and strong, although syphilitic, sensual dialogues and the words you are going to find
and brave, deeply ambitious – this way he was in these pages. By narrating Fascism as a novel,
described by a Public Security report in 1919. although a documentary one, and for the first
He is Benito Mussolini, former socialist leader time from the inside, without any political or
thrown out of his party, political agitator, head ideological lens, Scurati reveals a long forgotten
of a little opposition newspaper. A character of reality.
ROBERTO PAZZI A N T O N I O S C U R AT I
lives in Ferrara. He is a writer translated into many languages. L’erede (Viareggio Prize finalist), Cercando l’Imperatore (Bergamo was born in 1969 in Naples and teaches Comparative Literatures many languages: Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo (2009,
A university professor, he worked for “Il Corriere della Sera” and Prize, Hemingway Prize, Selezione Campiello Prize), La principessa at the IULM university in Milan, where is head of the Master in shortlisted for the Strega Prize), La seconda mezzanotte (2011), Il
then for many other newspapers, in Italy and abroad, among which e il drago (Premio Strega finalist), Conclave, La trasparenza del Storytelling. He also works for “La Stampa” and is author of many padre infedele (2013, shortlisted for the Strega Prize) and Il tempo
“The New York Times”. He is author of many novels, among which: buio. essays. He’s been writing novels since 2002. His Il sopravvissuto migliore della nostra vita (2015, Viareggio Prize and Selezione
was awarded the 2005 Campiello Prize and Una storia romantica Campiello Prize).
the 2008 Mondello Prize. Among his many books, translated into
A novel Italy had been awaiting for for
decades. A true masterpiece.
Roberto Saviano
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CLASSICS Corrado Alvaro
MODERN
CLASSICS Alberto Moravia
Man Is Strong Two Women
L’ U O MO È F ORT E LA CIO CIAR A
A suprising novel. Alvaro’s most visionary brutal dictatorship. By pretending to A 20th century Italian classic. In his story prepares to enter Rome, Cesira packs a
and less known work. promote a fair and strong society, the of two women, Alberto Moravia depicts few provisions, sews her life savings into
regime controls every part of private an intimate portrayal of the anguish and the seams of her dress, and flees South
This dystopic novel, published in 1938, lives, instilling fear and guilt. Even love destruction brought by war, as devastating with Rosetta to her native province of
was censored beacause of its description is considered dangerous because it draws behind the lines as it is on the battlefield. Ciociaria, a poor, mountainous region
of a totalitarian society way darker and away from collective good. But it will famous for providing the domestic servants
scarier than the one depicted by Orwell be his love for Barbara, daughter of a A daughter and her mother fight to survive of Rome. For nine months the two women
some years later in 1984. After a civil war couple of “people’s enemy”, that will bring in Rome during the Second World War. endure hunger, cold, and filth as they
between “partisans” and “gangs”, engeneer Dale on the verge of death, after being Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, await the arrival of the Allied Forces.
Dale witnesses the establishment of a suspected, persecuted and convicted. and Rosetta, a naïve teenager, beautiful But the liberation, when it comes, brings
and devoted. When the German army unexpected tragedy.
C O R R A D O A LV A R O A L B E RT O M O R AV I A
(San Luca, Calabria, 1895 – Rome, 1956) was a writer, journalist pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, a Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana, Racconti romani and La
and poet and, above all, an intellectual of strong civic, ethic journalist, an essayist, a travel reporter and a playwright. He is one of noia. In 1952 he was awarded the Strega Prize for his short stories,
and cultural sensitivity, which made him able, in the Thirties, to the most important Italian novelists of the 20th century. He contributed blacklisted by the Church. Many of his novels have been made into
denounce the evil that was spreading throughout Europe. to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Corriere della Sera” and films, including La ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc
“L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books translated worldwide: Godard and Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci.
The importance of a novel such as Corrado N EW ED ITIO N O N O CCASIO N O F B O MPIAN I’S
90 TH AN N IVER SARY
Alvaro’s Man Is Strong, arguably the most
intriguing dystopia of Italian 20th century,
FR O M TH IS N O VEL TH E MO VIE
can be detected by considering the year B Y VITTO R IO D E SICA STAR R IN G
of its publication only: 1938, seven years SO PH IA LO R EN AN D J EAN -PAU L B ELMO N D O
before Animal Farm and nine before 1984.
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24 25MODERN
CLASSICS Alberto Moravia MODERN
CLASSICS Guido Piovene
The Conformist The Furies
I L C O NF ORM I S T A LE FU R IE
One of Moravia’s masterpieces. The life disappear, to be just like any other. But, The novel Guido Piovene loved most. A in the years of the economic boom. In the
and desire for normalcy of a government as it always happened in history, the price prediction of the obscure evils of Italian background, the city of Vicenza, beloved
official during the Fascist period. to pay for being part of a society is terribly society during the boom years. and rejected. Guido Piovene wrote a
high, in terms of freedom. Moravia tells merciless analysis of the existential and
Published in 1951, this novel is the us the story of a honeymoon in Paris, This novel, first published in 1963 after ideological chimeras and ghosts of him
portrayal of a very common character of a political crime and of a man and his a fourteen-year narrative silence from and his contemporaries, using an almost
and moral attitude: conformist and world, and moreover of what a modern Piovene, is a jab into fears, illusions and nouveau roman technique that enhances
conformism. Contemporary man, conformist has to pay for becoming part of disillusions, passions and treasons, of the memory in a decaying world.
according to Moravia, only wants to a non-existent society. 20th century Italian intelligentsia, depicted
A L B E RT O M O R AV I A GUIDO PIOVENE
pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, a Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana, Racconti romani and La (1907-1974) was a journalist, a writer and one of the most Indro Montanelli in 1974. Among his works, investigative journalism,
journalist, an essayist, a travel reporter and a playwright. He is one of noia. In 1952 he was awarded the Strega Prize for his short stories, prominent intellectuals of Post-War Italy. He worked for “Corriere essays, novels and travel reportages.
the most important Italian novelists of the 20th century. He contributed blacklisted by the Church. Many of his novels have been made into della Sera” and “La Stampa”, before founding “Il Giornale” with
to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Corriere della Sera” and films, including La ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc
“L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books translated worldwide: Godard and Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci.
NE W E DI TIO N ON OCCASION OF BO MPIAN I’S Rereading it now, this novel confirms his
9 0 TH A NN IVERSARY, WITH AN IN TRO D U CTION
magmatic nature and presents the reader
BY L OREN ZO PAVOLIN I.
with an unfinishedness that redeems itself
F ROM T HIS N O VEL TH E MOVIE
in memorable pages, among the purest and
BY BE RN ARD O BERTO LU CCI STAR R IN G most sublime Piovene ever wrote.
JE A N- L OUIS TRIN TIG N AN T, STEFAN IA TuttoLibri, La Stampa
S A NDRE LLI, DO MIN IQU E SAN DA
A ND P I E RR E CLÉMEN TI.
A great novel, still fresh and able just
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Norwegian (Solum); Polish (Foksal); Serbian (Plato); Spanish autobiographical.
(Debolsillo); Turkish (Kolektif Kitap); US English (Steerforth)
Il Sole 24 Ore
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CLASSICS Guido Piovene
Italian Journey
V I A G GI O I N I T A L I A
The renowned reportage on a changing areas, Piovene visited every corner of
country by a great intellectual. Italy, even the furthest away ones. An
unprecedented challenge, that gave birth
Guido Piovene’s fame will always be to a seminal book in Italian history, true as
linked to this book, Italian Journey, that,
Non Fiction
a photograph, detailed as an accusation.
on the verge of 1950s, became the most Piovene looks at a country which is going
famous literary guide to the country. through economic miracle and postwar
From Bolzano to Sicily, from big cities reconstruction, a place both remote and
to unknown little villages and neglected still vividly recognizable.
GUIDO PIOVENE
(1907-1974) was a journalist, a writer and one of the most Indro Montanelli in 1974. Among his works, investigative journalism,
prominent intellectuals of Post-War Italy. He worked for “Corriere essays, novels and travel reportages.
della Sera” and “La Stampa”, before founding “Il Giornale” with
A W O R T H LY R E D I S C O V E RY O F A C L A S S I C
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28REFLECTING
ON OUR TIME Guido Barbujani
The Invention of Human Races
L’IN VEN ZIO N E D ELLE R AZZE
The word “race” is fashionable again. classifying races to the most updated
But do we know what it really means? studies on DNA. Genetics succeeded in
discovering the first steps of human race
How much do social and cultural evolution, from our African origins up to
differences depend on our genes? today, and these discoveries prove wrong
This book, through a very fascinating the 19th-century idea that humanity be
critical and historical journey, shows fragmented into biologically distinct
us the milestones in the centuries-old groups, groups that we would call “races”
debate about biological basics of human in regard to other species.
diversities, from the first attempts at
GUIDO BARBUJANI
(1955) worked at the State University of New York in Stony delle razze, Europei senza se e senza ma, Sono razzista ma sto
Brook and in the universities of London, Padua and Bologna. He cercando di smettere (with Pietro Cheli), Contro il razzismo (with
teaches Genetics at the University of Ferrara. He was awarded Marco Aime, Federico Faloppa e Clelia Bartoli), Gli africani siamo
the Napoli Prize for Italian Language and Culture in 2014. Among noi (shortlisted for the Galileo Prize), Il gene riluttante (with Lisa
his books, the novels Dilettanti, Dopoguerra, Questione di Razza Vozza) and Il giro del mondo in sei milioni di anni (with Andrea
(Hemingway Prize) and Morti e sepolti; the essays L’invenzione Brunelli).
WINNER OF THE MERCK-SERONO PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GALILEO PRIZE
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31REFLECTING
ON OUR TIME Stefano Bartezzaghi REFLECTING
ON OUR TIME Andrea Dusi
Banality. Commonplaces, How to Fail at Funding
Social Networks, Semiotics a Start-up and Being Happy
B A N AL I T À . L UOGHI C OM UNI , S OC I A L NETWOR K , SEMIO TICA CO ME FAR FALLIR E U N A STARTU P ED ESSER E FELICI
Banality is our fixation. We want to escape relationship with banality, ours and others’. “Failure isn’t the end of it all, it is a keep our feet on the ground: nine start-ups
it but this escape itself makes us more and We should face it, know it, be frank with lesson to start over. There is no such out of ten don’t survive their first three
more banal. it. We should befriend banality. He is also thing as fault, just mistakes not to make years of activity. The optimistic rhetoric
convinced that social networks are the again.” A former startupper, now a happy of success has the best of it and we can’t
We both despise and are attracted to perfect “habitat” to face it and get to know businessman, tells us that one can learn a find any trace of those start-ups that didn’t
commonplaces, and our idea of success is it. Which doesn’t mean that all today’s lot from those start-ups that didn’t make it. make it, especially in those countries, like
that everybody can notice how we avoid banality can be found there nor that Italy, where failure is lived as a personal
them. Stefano Bartezzaghi does not agree. everything appearing there is banal. They An old garage, a hint of genius, some shame, a social stigma. On the contrary
He thinks that we got our bogeyman are just the perfect field of investigation. good luck and a revolutionary idea, and Andrea Dusi tells us that is by studying
wrong: we should establish a good then money, success, happiness: an idea our and others’ failures that we learn what
seemingly so easy and seducing feeding mistakes to avoid and what examples to
the golden myth of Silicon Valley-like emulate. And who knows, maybe also how
start-ups. Reality, instead, should make us to he happy.
STEFANO BARTEZZAGHI ANDREA DUSI
teaches Semiotics and Creativity Theories at IULM University in and the first crossword history, L’orizzone verticale (2007). For after working as a consultant (for Roland Berger and Arthur technologies. He is advisor of several technological initiatives and
Milan, where he also directs the Master in Journalism. He writes Bompiani he also published Parole in gioco (2017). D. Little) and failing his first start-up in 2004, funded Wish he invested in more than one hundred of start-ups as a business
for “La Repubblica” and published many linguistic games, puzzles Days, best known for the gift-boxes Emozione3. In April 2016 he angel. He is funder and president of the political group 10 Volte
sold his company to Smartbox for millions of euros. In 2017 he Meglio.
funded Impactschool, an NGO preparing students to exponential
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32 33N A R R AT I V E
NON FICTION Francesco De Carlo N A R R AT I V E
NON FICTION Roberta Scorranese
My Brexit. Diary of a Comedian Take Me Where You Were Born.
in the Right Place at the Wrong Time Going back to Abruzzo.
L A M IA BRE X I T. DI A RI O DI UN C OM I C O N EL PO STO GIU STO PO RTAMI D O VE SEI N ATA
A L M OM E NT O S BA GL I AT O
An Italian comedian’s rundown life England to understand its society and the A memoir, a novel, a reportage narrating putting together past and present, so that
in Brexit London. differencies and unthinkable analogies Abruzzo in many unusual ways. Ten the earthquake do not erase memory: even
with his fatherland, but also his new years after the devastating earthquake of in that mysterious and wonderful land
Francesco has a dream: to become a condition as a foreigner, a stranger. From L’Aquila, an homage to a wonderful land future is not imaginable without past.
comedy star. But in Italy he doesn’t get a his first shows in the comedy clubs to the by one of its daughters. Between memories and magic, thousands
chance. So he translates his monologues Fringe Festival in Edimburgh, to his first of incredible stories take life in front of the
into English, packs up and goes to London, success, from Covent Garden to the SoHo Roberta Scorranese sets off from her own reader’s eyes.
the European capital of comedy. It’s June Theatre and the BBC, hovering above it all roots to tell us about her own Abruzzo,
2016 and just when Francesco decides to is the ghost of Brexit, that should become
set off for the UK, UK decides to leave the effective in March 2019, an inexorable
EU. If Francesco wants to hit the big time countdown to Francesco’s ambitions. What
he has to do it quickly, because in less than will happen to his career? Will he remain
two years he might be invited to leave the in UK or go back to Italy? And what will he
country. So he starts a journey through learn from this once-off experience?
F R A N C E S C O D E C A R L O ROBERTA SCORRANESE
was born in Rome in 1979. After working for four years at had his debut in UK (BBC), Spain and South Africa (Comedy was born in Valle San Giovanni, Teramo, Abruzzo. She lives in
the European Parliament he became a radio speaker and TV Central). He told his experience in London through a RAI 3 TV Milan and is a journalist of “Il Corriere della Sera” where she
screenwriter. He is the first Italian comedian to have performed programme, “It’s All Brexit Fault”, and is to lead a stand-up writes about cultural themes. This is her narrative debut.
abroad in 16 nations and took part in the most important world comedy for Netflix.
festivals, from UK and Canada to South Korea and Dubai. He
E N G L I S H S A M P L E T R A N S L AT I O N AV A I L A B L E
Francesco De Carlo is the best face we
have seen for a long time. My Brexit is true
news and it’s well written and well shot.
He was given that brilliant, creative flair
we grew unaccostumed to.
“L’Espresso”
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34 35BOOKS
ON BOOKS Mario Baudino BOOKS
ON BOOKS Giampiero Mughini
Don’t You Know Who I Am? Oh, the Wonderful Smell of Books!
L E I NON S A C HI S ONO I O An ideal library of a XXth century child
CH E PR O FU MO Q U EI LIB R I
A fascinating inquiry about pseudonyms Lorenzini) and Alberto Moravia (born The sentimental autobiography of the most the most famous or those regarded as
and the authors who chose their own: Pincherle), Joseph Conrad and Pablo passionate bibliophile in Italy, narrated masterpieces, but the oblique, hazardous
how? why? Neruda, to Voltaire, Umberto Saba, Pessoa through his personal and sometimes and neglected ones. He describes them
and Romain Gery (born Roman Kacew, impudent 20th century library. in the form they had when they first were
Money, snobbery, superstition, self- winner of two Goncourt Prizes, one of published, because that is the moment
marketing, love: for many reasons, which as Émile Ajar), to Elena Ferrante, A book celebrating books, the paper ones. when a book comes to life. All together,
throughout history, writers and poets Mario Baudino tells us all about the Giampiero Mughini chose some of his they make up an ideal library: arbitrary,
changed their names and chose a reasons and the consequences that lead to most beloved books from his Italian 20th subjective and brazen.
pseudonym. From Carlo Collodi (born choose a nom de plume. century library section: not necessarily
MARIO BAUDINO GIAMPIERO MUGHINI
lives in Turin, where he works as a journalist for “La Stampa”. is a writer and journalist. He has been writing for “il manifesto”,
He published books of poems, essays and novels, among which “Paese Sera” and “Panorama”. He lives in Rome.
Bompiani published Lo sguardo della farfalla (2016).
A wonderful and penetrating insight on the You should take whatever page
psycological process that leads to chose a by Mughini and put it in a school
pseudonym. anthology to show new generation how
“Il Messaggero” Italian language can be heated up,
hammered, bent and sandpapered.
Funny and thrilling, it aims to investigate Camillo Langone
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36 37BOOKS
ON BOOKS Alessandra Sarchi BIOGRAPHIES
Nicola Attadio
Happiness of Images, Weight of Words. Where the Wind Is Born.
L A F EL I C I T À DE L L E I M M A GI NI , I L P E S O DELLE PARO LE.
CINQUE ESERCIZI DI LETTURA DI MORAVIA, VOLPONI, PASOLINI, CALVINO, CELATI
Life of Nellie Bly
D O VE N ASCE IL VEN TO . VITA D I N ELLIE B LY
By a writer known for her fiction, a literary moment of exchange between those The life of a brave and clever woman who Nobody has ever heard of anything like
essay about the relationship between two dimensions of creativity and from way before social network era understood that, but her project of writing under
writing and painting for five authors of 1960s authors began looking at those writing can keep us united and change cover about Blackwell Island, the women
Italian 20th century. experiments with nostalgia: from Pasolini, our world. asylum of New York City, persuades Mr.
a chameleonic himself, to Moravia, who Cockerill and Mr. Pulitzer. It will result
As fascinating as a novel, as thorough as kept drawing till his death, to Calvino, who September, 1887: a young girl knocks at in an investigative reportage that will
an academic essay, this book is neither the affirmed that a painter is happier than a the door of John Cockerill, director of change journalism for ever. Nellie Bly
first thing nor the second: it is, though, a writer. Sarchi gives us a vivid portrait of Joseph Pultizer’s “The New York World”. will become the nightmare of politicians
recognition of her author’s most beloved times rich in ideas and contaminations, She wants to be a reporter. No woman and conformists, will travel around the
themes, as she has been travelling from enlightening parallels and cross-references before has ever dared that much. Her world, will live loves and failures, sure
literature to art for years. The fourth among the arts. name is Elizabeth Cochran, she is 23 and that journalism should make readers’ lives
decade of the 20th century was a thriving is writing for a Pittsburgh paper under the better.
penname Nellie Bly. A woman reporter!
ALESSANDRA SARCHI N I C O L A ATT A D I O
is a writer and an art historian. She is author of L’amore normale, lives and works in Rome. He is author and host of “Vite che non
La note ha la mia voce (Selezione Campiello Prize 2017), both sono la tua” on Radio 3. This is his first book.
published by Einaudi. She lives in Bologna.
LONGLISTED FOR 2018
VIAREGGIO-RÈPACI PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR 2018
A L E S S A N D R O M A N Z O N I I N T E R N AT I O N A L
L I T E R A RY P R I Z E
5 EDITIONS, 10,000 COPIES
An honest and brave work.
“Il Messaggero Veneto”
Attadio retraces sympathetically
a legendary figure’s life.”
“L’Espresso”
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38 39BIOGRAPHIES
Renato Minore BIOGRAPHIES
Luca Scarlini
Rimbaud The Last Queen of Florence
L’U LTIMA R EG IN A D I FIR EN ZE
A biography of the rebel maudit poet. A Renato Minore takes us on a journey Princesses, abbesses, mignons, cardinals, slipping out of their hands. They were
passionate work of research as powerful as through the life of the enfant prodige poet artists, musicians, scientists, writers: a erotomaniac, most religious, obsessive
a novel. par excellence, who has been obsessing travel into the court of the last Medicis in collectors. In Palazzo Pitti and all the
and seducing all the ones who came after Palazzo Pitti, Florence. other many villas, splendour and disaster
From the inextinguishable fire of him. This book lets us know Rimbaud’s life walked hand in hand: from 1620 to
adolescence to mature age thinking, from and poetry thanks to a fascinating narrative The Renaissance prime of Medician 1737 wrong ambitions, suicidal dynastic
Charleville in the Ardennes to Ethiopia, construction. Florence has been told many times. But choices, unlikely alliances followed one
much less known are the last lords of the another, just to save a lineage doomed to
city. The Last Queen of Florence talks extition that would soon be replaced by
about them, the last Medicis: bizarre and the Lorenas.
fickle characters, chasing a world that was
R E N AT O M I N O R E LUCA SCARLINI
was born in Chieti in 1944. A writer, a poet and a journalist, he amori, Nella notte impenetrabile, Il dominio del cuore, translated is a writer, a playwriter, a performance artist and a storyteller. Lustrini per il regno dei cieli, Un paese in ginocchio, La sindrome
works for RAI and writes for “Il Messaggero”. He is author of many into many languages. He teaches narrative techniques at the Scuola Holden in Turin. di Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol superstar, Memorie di un’opera
books among which Rimbaud, Leopardi. L’infanzia, le città, gli He worked for Rai Radio Tre and curated many exhibitions about d’arte, Bianco Tenebra, Teatri d’amore.
links among art, music, thatre and fashion. Among his books,
WINNER OF THE 1991 SELEZIONE
CAMPIELLO PRIZE E N G L I S H S A M P L E T R A N S L AT I O N AV A I L A B L E
There couldn't be a best writer than
Scarlini to evoke such a parade of ghosts
who, once we come to know them, won't
leave the reader's mind very easily.
“La lettura”
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40 41BIOGRAPHIES
Gaia Servadio PHILOSOPHY
Francesco Tomatis
The Most Famous Italian in the The Mountain Way
World. Life and Adventures LA VIA D ELLA MO N TAG N A
of Giovanni Battista Belzoni
L’ITALIANO PIÙ FAMOSO DEL MONDO. VITA E AVVENTURE DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI
The story of the Italian Egyptologist who which the famous one of Seti I, the so- A fascinating journey teaching us not only mountain as horizon and verticality,
inspired George Lucas to create Indiana called “Egyptian Sistine Chapel” and the how to contemplate mountains but also tradition and experience, he faces
Jones. entrances to the pyramid of Khafre and how to live it and listen to it. existential, ecological and political-
to the Abu Simbel temple. Gaia Servadio, economical questions: a path he
Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of with the passion and rigor that made her Francesco Tomatis keeps his enquiry personally experienced among with
the greatest Egyptologists in history. biographies of great Italians famous, tells on mountain landscape’s physical, many other mountain lovers before him
No wonder George Lucas took him as us the incredibly adventurous life of one of metaphysical, natural, cultural, political (alpinists, writers, mountaineers, poets
a model for his Indiana Jones: during the main and more fascinating protagonists and spiritual dimension. By reading composers and painters).
three archaeological expedition, between of modern-day archaeology, a man who in
1816 and 1819, he discovered about ten his days was known to be the most famous
tombs in the Valley of the Kings, among Italian in the world.
GAIA SERVADIO F R A N C E S C O T O M AT I S
was born in Padua in 1938. A painter, journalist and writer, she La storia di R, and biographical essays, like Luchino Visconti, la was born in Carrù, Cuneo, in 1964. He teaches Theoretical published with Bompiani Filosofia della montagna, Come leggere
lives between Italy and the UK. She worked for “Il Mondo”, Donna del Rinascimento and Gioacchino Rossini. Una vita. She Philosophy at Salerno University and Kung Fu at the Chang Nietzsche, Dialogo dei principi, Libertà di sapere.
“La Stampa”, “Il Corriere della Sera”, RAI and BBC. Among her was made a Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana. School. Scientific warrantor of Mountain Wilderness International,
works, narrative books, such as Tanto gentile e tanto onesta and
E N G L I S H S A M P L E T R A N S L AT I O N AV A I L A B L E
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42 43PHILOSOPHY
& RELIGION Carlo Maria Martini PHILOSOPHY
& RELIGION Alberto Porro
To Be a Neighbour to the Last. How to Survive the Catholic Church
Men and Women Who Stopped Without Losing Your Faith
Thinking about Themselves CO ME SO PR AVVIVER E ALLA CH IESA CATTO LICA E N O N PER D ER E LA FED E
FARSI PROSSIMO. UOMINI E DONNE CHE HANNO SMESSO DI PENSARE A SE STESSI
The fifth volume of Cardinal Martini’s themselves because experienced God’s A funny manual for those who can’t feel listen to the sermon, to exchange “the
opera omnia collects all his writings about force in them so that their willingness, their heart beating anymore when they sign of peace”, to get married in church,
charity, some of them never published their unstoppable energy, their ability to hear ‘Catholic Church’. to invite priests over to dinner, to baptize
before. listen and to go towards their neighbour your sons and daughters, to send your
might create a new humanity. That’s the A collection of practical advice to survive children to Sunday school, to help the
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini did know powerful teaching of Martini, who just Catholic Church (which theoretically priest, to chat with nuns, to make your
the risks in the word “charity”: “Many completely tuned in to his neighbour: stands for you but practically barely stands children go to mass, to obey your priest, to
people would just think of some act of gaoled, handicapped, sick, poor people, you) and an index of dangers to thwart, give donations.
human compassion [...] uneffective at foreigner, migrants, drug addicts and such as: to go to mass on Sundays, to
really changing history.” This isn’t the real terrorists, with whom Martini had been
deepest testimony of those Christian men corresponding regularly for many years.
and women who stopped thinking about
C AR D INA L C A R L O M A R I A M A RT I NI ALBERTO PORRO
(1927-2012) graduated in Holy Scripture summa cum laude together with other specialists of different Christian Churches, (Milan, 1958) has been working in the book world for thirty years.
at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico, where he became first of the widely read Greek New Testament (fourth revised edition, He lives in a family community close to Milan with his wife and five
Deacon of the Faculty of Holy Scripture and then Rector from 1993). On December 29th, 1979 Pope John Paul II named him children. He had all the jobs he could imagine as he thinks that
habit is a very dangerous phenomenon.
1969 to 1978. In that same year he was nominated Rector of Archbishop of Milan, a pastoral commitment that was to last
the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. Among his numerous twenty-two years, leaving a deep mark on the ecclesiastic and
scientific publications there is the critical edition, edited civil Milanese community.
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