Books

A festival dedicated to French literature is born in Turin: it's called Francesissimo

From Friday, January 30 to Sunday, February 1, Turin will host Francesissimo, a new festival dedicated to French and Francophone literature and culture. The initiative is proposed as a mirror and complementary project to Italissimo, which has been br...
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A graphic novel tells the story of Camille Claudel, talented sculptor of the late 19th century

The story of late 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel told in a graphic novel: to be released on February 24, 2026 in bookstores Troppo libera. The Art, Love, and Struggle of Camille Claudel, by Assia Petricelli and Sergio Riccardi with afte...
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A vivid and shared portrait of Milan in the new volume "Marina Previtali, Milan put to work"

Silvana Editoriale publishing house has recently released the volume Marina Previtali, Milano messa in opera, edited by Lorenzo Valentino. The book collects eighty-six testimonies written by figures active in the most diverse productive (from entrepr...
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Piero della Francesca re-read by Adolfo Venturi: republished classic of criticism

Succedeoggi Libri has republished in its entirety the essay that Adolfo Venturi (1856-1941) dedicated in 1922 to Piero della Francesca, offering contemporary readers a rare opportunity for direct confrontation with one of the fundamental texts of Ita...
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Ragghianti and Zevi's correspondence published: a forty-year-long dialogue

A new piece enriches knowledge of 20th-century Italian cultural history. The Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - ETS has published the third volume of the series dedicated to the epistolaries of its founder, this tim...
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University of Modena's historical collection at the center of an unpublished catalog

TheUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia opens a new window on its scientific history through the publication of the volume Tesori modenesi ritrovati (Rediscovered Modena Treasures), catalog of the exhibition scheduled from Oct. 4 to Dec. 21, 2025, ...
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A "Poesiealbum" for Daniel Spoerri: exhibition and book in the Garden where the artist rests

In the Tuscan Maremma, in Seggiano (Grosseto), the Garden of Daniel Spoerri is preparing to host a double commemorative event: a photography exhibition and the presentation of the volume Poesiealbum. Homage to Daniel Spoerri, curated by Anna Mazzanti...
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From theft to chronicle: book on Caravaggio's missing Nativity in Rome

A few days after the closing of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition set up at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, the capital is once again wondering about one of the mysteries of Italian art history: the theft of the Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, paint...
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Unpublished photographs of the Vittoriale: D'Annunzio's house in Dante Bravo's book

Coming to bookstores on July 18, published by Skira and edited by Valerio Terraroli, Gabriele d'Annunzio's Il Vittoriale degli Italiani in the photographs of Dante Bravo (1925-1931), a volume that collects and presents for the first time in unabridge...
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Between hoaxes and myths in art: out comes "True Fake," Federico Giannini's book

True, False, Fake. Beliefs, Errors and Falsehoods in the Art World(Giunti Editore), the essay by Federico Giannini (Massa, 1986) journalist, art critic, founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Finestre sull'Arte. It can already be found in bookst...
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Superman and Dante meet in Florence in new graphic novel signed by Nucci and Celoni

Can a symbolic character of twentieth-century American popular culture, such as Superman, converse with one of the founding figures of medieval European literature, Dante Alighieri? Can the poetry of the Supreme Poet coexist with the drawn plates of ...
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Israeli-Palestinian war told in Gina Nakhle Koller's comic strip

A new book chronicles the Israeli-Palestinian war through an unconventional narrative medium: comics. Lebanese-Palestinian author Gina Nakhle Koller, born in 1982, recently published While the World Watches, an illustrated chronicle documenting the v...
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Panini Cultura publishes new facsimile of Le Très Riches Heures by the Duke of Berry

Thirty years after its first facsimile edition, Le Très Riches Heures by the Duke of Berry is revived in a new publication announced by the Panini Cultura Group. Considered the pinnacle of the Franco-Flemish miniature and among the most valuab...
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Artonauts' new album explores emotions and art in the age of artificial intelligence

A journey through colors, emotions and art masterpieces, but also a reflection on the relationship between man and technology. This is the plot of the sixth album in the Artonauti collection, the publishing project that has managed to combine the tim...
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The Royal Pavilion at Milan's Centrale: volume on Art Deco architecture published

On Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 4:30 p.m., the Sala Otto Colonne of the Royal Palace in Milan will host the official presentation of the volume The Royal Pavilion of Milan's Central Station. An Art Deco Masterpiece, edited by Fabio Mangone and publishe...
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A playbook on Giotto introduces children to 14th-century art: here's what it's like Learn with... Giotto

Who saidfourteenth-century art was only a subject for adults? With Learn with. Giotto even the youngest children can enter the world of art masterpieces while having fun and discovering without getting bored. The game-book (also called a puzzle for t...
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