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Life Style
Maria Lucia De Pinto
Stagioni di vita
[Seasons of Life]
Città aperta edizioni
Series: Le Ali di Dedalo
Forthcoming:November 2008
pp. 236 / Euro 15,00
Who cares of what the people who should care of
us are doing ? The story of a woman-physician
who is affected by a rare disease under treatment
by some colleagues of her – while she is aware of
vices and virtues of her profession.
A journey through hospital rooms and wards, in
company of a woman who expresses her thoughts,
feelings, emotions, and strong abnegation for her
profession. A dramatic story filled with love for
medicine, but also with the awareness of its
limits and faults, that are described with irony
and humour.
Maria Lucia De Pinto, studied piano and medicine and became surgeon when only 23. In two
years she was assistant lecturer in pediatrics and specialized in paediatrics surgery and then
radiology. When 35 she was conferred with the title of “Cavaliere della Repubblica” but she
refused it because she judged not to deserve it. Head physician at 37, Maria De Pinto operated in
several hospital in Puglia and in Northern Italy. A married woman with three sons, in 1992 she was
affected by a degenerative disease and since then her life has had a different course.
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Literary Essays
Giuseppe Marcenaro
Una sconosciuta moralità.
Verlaine e Rimbaud, un processo: Bruxelles luglio/agosto
1873
Unknown morality.
Verlaine and Rimbaud, a trial: Brussels July/August 1873
Il Melangolo
Series “Lecturae"
180 pages
Forthcoming April 2009
Rimbaud-Verlaine: a scandalous relationship revealed through the secret papers
of a famous trial.
This book offers, for the first time, the opportunity to read the entire papers of the trial that took place
in Bruxelles in 1873, which ‘starred’ as protagonists Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.
The story of the relationship between the two poets is well-known, but not completely. The two artists’
human and artistic adventure is even nowadays rich of surprises, after more than a century from the
events that involved them.
Great poets, of course, but also alcohol addicted, quarrelsome, antisocial and amoral men who were
forced to leave France because of the continuous attacks they received by the “good” French society of
the time, and who took refuge in London where they lived as vagabonds.
In 1873, in Brussels, a drunk Verlaine fired Rimbaud, wounding him. During the trial that followed, the
prosecutor tried, moreover, to investigate the nature of their relationship, ordering a special
investigation on Verlaine’s body to discover those “signs” that could confirm the amoral nature of their
friendship.
Because of its content, the complete dossier of the trial couldn’t be examined until the 1960s and
remained almost unknown - in its whole, it has never been published before. Thanks to this book, the
reader can discover the details of the entire trial and a number of minor characters who were involved
in the affaire.
Giuseppe Marcenaro published many books of History, Art and Social Studies; including: Lettere a una
gentile signora (Adelphi, 1983); Eugenio Montale (Bruno Mondadori,1999); Carte inquiete (Aragno,2005);
Cimiteri. Storie di rimpianti e di follie (Bruno Mondadori,2008). In 2007 he edited for Il Melangolo a sort of
(auto)-biography by Stendhal: Autobiografia del signor me stesso di Stendhal.
Gaia De Pascale
Wu Ming. La nuova epica italiana
Wu Ming. The new Italian epic
Il Melangolo
Series “Altrescritture"
120 pages
February 2009
The first book about the most original Italian literary and
cultural experience in last years,
the Wu Ming Foundation
For more info about this “gang of novelists”, visit
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/
The extraordinary story of the authors of Q and Manituana, from the beginning till
nowadays.
Their books have been translated in Germany, France, Portugal, Great Britain, USA,
Holland, Denmark, Russia, South Korea, and have been downloaded from the net in
thousands of copies.
This essay analyses the Wu Ming project of a collective writing and of the idea of a New
Italian Epic that aroused a strong debate on the press and the Internet.
Gaia De Pascale, the author, reviews the entire story of this band of novelists in a book
that is at the same time a biography, an essay, a tale and a pamphlet against a certain kind
of literary criticism that snubbed one of the most important experience of the
contemporary Italian literature.
With an interview of the author with Wu Ming 1.
Gaia De Pascale is a writer and a scholar of literature. Amongst her books: Scrittori in
viaggio. Narratori e poeti italiano del Novecento in giro per il mondo, Bollati Boringhieri, 2001;
Slow Travel. Alla ricerca del lusso di perdere tempo, Ponte alle Grazie, 2008.
Margherita Rubino
FEDRA
Per mano femminile
PHAEDRA
With female touch
Il Melangolo
Series: Opuscola
120 pages
: January-Fabruary 2009
The myth of Phaedra in the theatre and in literature:
from Euripides to Hans Werner Henze
The topic of a mature woman who accused his young lover of sexual harassment can also
be found in Eastern literatures and the Bible. In the plot created by Euripides in Hippolytus
(428 B.C.) the mature woman is also the stepmother of the young boy. Starting from there
Phaedra is the main character of all the Western literary variations to the masterpiece of
Jean Racine, Phédre (1677).
In the twentieth century, thanks to the fortune of classic theatre all over the world, the
story of Phaedra has been revisited by female artists such as Marina Cvetaeva, Marguerite
Yourcenar, Patrizia Valduga, Sarah Kane.
This book is a review of Phaedra’s myth though its theatrical and literary representations
up to Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra, published in 2007 and translated all over the world.
Margherita Rubino teaches “Ancient Theatre and Dramaturgy” and “Traditions of
Ancient Theatre” at the University of Genoa.
After studies on the fortune of Latin and Ancient Greek theatre, she edited eight Plutus’s
comedies for the “Grandi Libri Garzanti” and the Aeneid.
Edoardo Sanguineti
ABECEDARIO DI EDOARDO SANGUINETI
Sanguineti's Primer
Video-interview with Rossana Campo
Directed by Uliano Paolozzi Balestrino
DeriveApprodi 2006
2 DVD + Book
Euro 35,00
Isbn 88-88738-05-9
AVANT-GARDE COMMUNISM DRINK DANCE DEBUT EVERYDAY HOTEL
LIFE LITERATURE MARRIAGE ORALITY (IN WRITING) PAINTING
NOVEL SMOKE SEX THEATRE 20TH-CENTURY UNIVERSITY UNCONSCIOUS WAR
ZERO
From the "A" for AVANT-GARDE to "z" for ZERO - twenty-one key words by means of which the
famous poet Eldorado Sanguineti talks about present and past history, poetry and novels, love and
relationships, his preferred authors and loathed figures, loyalty and engagement.
This nearly seven hours' interview - recorded in January 2006 - with one of the outstanding figures of
the Italian 20th century literature, was made by Rossana Campo, a well known writer and novelist. The
book that is attached to the DVD includes texts by Sanguineti that were selected by her..
Edoardo Sanguineti was born in Genoa in 1930. He taught literature in the universities of Turin,
Genoa and Salerno. In 1979was also elected as member of Parliament. A leading figure of "Gruppo 63"
he started in the Fifties his activity as a poet, with Laborintus (1956), Erotopaegnia (1960) and Triperuno
(1964). His poems are collected in Opus metricum 1951-1959 (1960); Catamerone 1951-1971 (1974);
Segnalibro. Poesie 1951-1981 (1982).
Sanguineti is also author of dramas, literary essays, studies on Dante, novels and short stories. In his
artistic activity he collaborated with painters (Enrico Baj), musicians (Luciano Berio), theatre and
cinema directors. ".
Rossana Campo (b. in Genoa 1963) is the author of several book, all published by Feltrinelli.
EDOARDO SANGUINETI
Ritratto del Novecento. A Portrait of the 20th Century
Edited by Niva Lorenzini
Foreword by Angelo Guglielmi
Manni - March 2008
Series : Pretesti
240 pages - With full colour and B&W images
Retail price: € 20,00
Forthcoming: March 2009
A crossroad of images, words, sounds, to reconstruct in a kaleidoscopic
play a full image of the last century
In December 2005 Sanguineti organised in Bologna five evening
performances, during which he outlined his personal view of the 20th
century.
Each event outlined a different facet of 20th century's culture - through film
clips, sequences of images, pages from poems, novels, essays, texts about
architecture, cinema, theatre, anthropology, ethnography, history etc., which
were read by young actors. A soundtrack on the background with classic,
jazz, rock and pop music.
This book includes all the different pages by which Sanguineti put together
his colossal project - 21 folders with letters, postcards, envelopes,
photocopies to rebuild an unprecedented image of the last century.
EDOARDO SANGUINETI is considered the greatest Italian living poet and
among the most influential contemporary intellectuals.
His works were also published in France ( Textuel, L'Age d'Homme, Gallimard, Seuil, Le Verger)
Germany (Suhrkamp, Wagenbach) UK (Dedalus Press)
GIANCARLO FERRETTI – EMANUELE ZINATO
Volponi personaggio di romanzo
con tre testi inediti
Volponi - A Novel Character
With three unpublished texts
Manni
96 pages
euro 13.00
Forthcoming : May 2009
This book includes two text by Paolo Volponi which were never published
before, an exchange of letters with Franco Fortini, and two essays by
Giancarlo Ferretti and Emanuele Zinato..
The first text is a self-critical confession about Volponi's role as Olivetti
and Fiat manager and his work as a writer.
The second text is a diary, dating back to 1980, when the author was often
moving from Urbino, his native town, and Milan - a reflection about his
roots and the life in a great post-industrial city - a fundamental work to
understand the themes of Volponi's novels.
The exchange of letters with Fortini - a close friend of Volponi - takes a
political event as its starting point to develop a debate about literature.
Paolo Volponi's works were published in France : Grasset, Flammarion, Laffont - in Germany,
Piper, S.Fischer -in UK and USA: Grossman, Marion Boyars Pub., Italica Press,
S0cial & Political Essays
Mario Tronti
OPERAI E CAPITALE
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS AND CAPITAL
DeriveApprodi 2006
Series: Biblioteca dell'operaismo
320 pages
euro 20,00
This book is with one accord recognized as the fundamental text of Italian Operaism - a school of
political thought that since the early Sixties has first revolutionised and then continuously
influenced the international debate within the institutional and radical Left.
In the Sixties Operai e capitale determined quite new world view, an attitudes and language, and
contributed to the cultural growth of thousands of activists in factories, schools and suburbs. A
remarkable part of the struggles in 1968 and the "Hot Autumn" were fed by the theories of this
book.
Four decades after its first edition, Operai e capitale has become a classic text, with a specific role
in the history of labour movement. On the other hand, its contents are still topical and offer an
extraordinary key to understand the rapid changes and the class decomposition of the last two
decades.
Mario Tronti (Rome, 1931) is considered one of the founders of theoretical operaism of the 1960s.
Excerpt
«We must not comfortably define as insoluble every problem that capital finds in the path of its
development. We must not immediately say: you cannot resolve it, only we can solve it for you. A problem
for capital is, first of all, a terrain for labor struggle. Its economic terrain is our political terrain. While capital
looks for a solution we are only interested in increasing our Organizational strength. We know that one after
the other, all of capital's economic problems can be resolved. We also know that what appears here as an
insoluble contradiction, elsewhere may have been already overcome or may have become another
contradiction. From the labor viewpoint, the premise for a powerful and efficient class struggle moving in
the sense of a positive violence is the specific knowledge of the specific contradiction for capital in a given
moment in a given situation. A labor victory forces the backward owner to get even in various ways, on the
simple quantity of the new part of income that labor has gained. Sometimes this happens for lack of
economic margins and other times for lack of political intelligence. This is not the real point where the labor
victory is turned into a defeat. In fact, such a crude answer by the owners only promotes the repetition of a
cycle of struggles at the same level of the earlier one, with a higher charge of spontaneity and therefore a
lesser need of organization. On this path, the movement of the struggles is easier, mobilization is both great
and simple, and the moment of generalization is immediate.»
Sergio Bianchi and Lanfranco Caminiti
GLI AUTONOMI
History, struggles, theories
DeriveApprodi
Three Volumes - each of ab. 480 pages 25,00 euro
Paradigms of theoretical production and practical experimentation in the matter of a revolutionary
project about workers’ autonomy were mostly developed between 1973 and 1979. Various political,
social and territorial factors contributed to this debate.
This book offers an image of that process offering a collection of documents which testify of a
subversive knowledge, while locating them in their historical and political context, through a
detailed chronology.
An already rich overview is completed by an “international section” with works from different
countries: these reflections are the paradoxical reaction to the violent response that workers’
attempts to gain autonomy have often found in Italy. Critic thinking and movements of struggle
have partly gained strength from Italian books, stories and authors translated into many languages.
The contributors include: César Altamira, Franco Berardi (Bifo), Martin Birkner, Lucio Castellano,
Patrick Cuninghame, Silvia Federici, Robert Foltin, Felix Guattari, Michael Hardt, Roberto
Lauricella, Vincenzo Miliucci, Primo Moroni, Toni Negri, Sirio Paccino, Daniele Pifano, Carlos
Prieto del Campo, Alvaro Reyes, Suely Rolnik, Roberta Tomassini, Mario Tronti.
Among all the sources: “7 aprile”, “A/traverso”, “Comunismo”, “I Volsci”, “Il corrispondente
operaio”, “Lavoro zero”, “Linea di condotta”, “Magazzino”, “Rivolta di classe”, “Rosso”, “Senza
tregua”.
Christian Marazzi
CAPITALE & LINGUAGGIO
Dalla New Economy all'economia di Guerra
CAPITAL AND LANGUAGE -From New Economy to War
Economy
DeriveApprodi
pp. 168
euro 11,00
English rights sold
In the New Economy, language and communication are structurally and simultaneously linked to the
production sphere of goods and services as well as the financial sphere. Accordingly ,changes in labour
and financial markets should be considered as the two sides of the coin.
The events of 11/9 in New York showed worldwide the crisis of American economy.
This book focuses on the causes of the international economic and financial slump and the tool the US
government used to react - war.
Between the crisis of the New Economy and the rise of War Economy there is not a simple causative
relationship, but rather a complex texture of links - the change from an industrial to an IT form of
production, the role played by financial powers and neo-liberal policies, the ownership of worldwide
resources and raw materials, in short, the radical mutation of capitalism.
Christian Marazzi, born in 1951 in Lugano, Switzerland, taught Economy at the university of Padua,
the NY State University and the university of Lausanne and Geneva.
He is the author of : Il posto dei calzini. La svolta linguistica dell'economia e i suoi effetti sulla politica (Bollati
Boringhieri, 1999) E il denaro va. Esodo e rivoluzione dei mercati finanziari (Bollati Boringhieri, 1998).
Paolo Virno
GRAMMATICA DELLA MOLTITUDINE.
Per una analisi delle forme di vita contemporanee
GRAMMAR OF MULTITUDE. For an analysis of contemporary forms of
life
DeriveApprodi 2003
pp. 128
euro 9,50
Isbn 88-88738-27-4
Rights sold: French, English, German, Spanish, Slovenian, Swedish,
Korean, Japanese
In the recent political debate new terms and descriptions were introduced that need some explanations.
Some authors are using such concepts as "multitude" as opposed the notion of "people", General
Intellect as a new distinguishing feature of labour force, non-State public sphere, exodus, individuality,
or biopolitics. Only a few people, however, that use such terms, are fully aware of their implications
and, most of all, of their origin. Paolo Virno is one of the authors that contributed to create them.
This book - a short overview of the recent year debate that has been developed on radical media - help
readers in a correct use and understanding of the above concepts - the only theoretical tools that can
explain the economic, social and cultural changes which have been shaking Western societies in the last
decade. The same concepts and terms are used by no-global activists in their civil disobedience action
and other form of political struggle..
Paolo Virno is professor at Università della Calabria. His main works include: Quando il verbo si fa carne.
Linguaggio e natura umana (Bollati Boringhieri), Parole con parole. Poteri e limiti del linguaggio (Donzelli), Il
ricordo del presente (Bollati Boringhieri).
Excerpt:
«Ritengo che il concetto di "moltitudine", da contrapporre a quello più familiare di "popolo", sia un attrezzo
decisivo per ogni riflessione sulla sfera pubblica contemporanea. Occorre tener presente che l'alternativa tra
"popolo" e "moltitudine" fu al centro delle controversie pratiche (fondazione degli Stati centrali moderni, guerre
di religione ecc.) e teorico-filosofiche del XVII secolo. Questi due concetti in lizza tra loro, forgiatisi nel fuoco di
contrasti acutissimi, giocarono un ruolo di prima grandezza nella definizione delle categorie politico-sociali della
modernità. Fu la nozione di "popolo" a prevalere. "Moltitudine" è il termine perdente, il concetto che ebbe la
peggio. Nel descrivere le forme della vita associata e lo spirito pubblico dei grandi Stati appena costituiti, non si
parlò più di moltitudine, ma di popolo. Resta da chiedersi se oggi, alla fine di un lungo ciclo, non si riapra quella
antica disputa; se oggi, allorché la teoria politica della modernità patisce una crisi radicale, la nozione allora
sconfitta non mostri una straordinaria vitalità, prendendosi così una clamorosa rivincita.
Le due polarità, popolo e moltitudine, hanno come padri putativi Hobbes e Spinoza. Per Spinoza, la multitudo sta
a indicare una pluralità che persiste come tale sulla scena pubblica, nell'azione collettiva, nella cura degli affari
comuni, senza convergere in un Uno, senza svaporare in un moto centripeto. Moltitudine è la forma di esistenza
sociale e politica dei molti in quanto molti: forma permanente, non episodica o interstiziale. Per Spinoza, la
multitudo è l'architrave delle libertà civili .»
Emilio Quadrelli
ANDARE AI RESTI
Banditi, rapinatori, guerriglieri nell’Italia degli anni Settanta
Outlaws, robbers, guerrillas in 1970s Italy
DeriveApprodi 2004
336 pages
ISBN 88-88738-19-3
17,50 euro
At the end of the Sixties, juvenile gangs begin to appear in the contest of factory work, in the so called
“Italian industrial triangle” between Milan, Turin and Genoa. In a short period of time, these groups
will become clusters of robbers (the most famous was Vallanzasca’s gang).
The conduct of such metropolitan bandits is certainly connected with the cultural environment of
proletarian areas; besides, this existential approach realizes some aspects that will be familiar for young
people in the Seventies: impatience and lack of mediation. In fact the title – which is taken from poker
jargon and means “being ready to stake everything” – suggests a specific way of acting, without any
possibility to go back.
The particular role played by women should be considered as a sharp difference from traditional
criminality: their operating autonomy and decision-making ability were problematic not only to
conservative middle classes, but also to feminist movements.
Clearly, prison is a fundamental background: here bandits often meet revolutionary militants: from this
common environment, the most radical critic towards institutions and forms of power is arisen.
In the early Eighties this cultural turmoil was removed through the creation of “top-security prisons”
and the diffusion of drugs, mainly heroin; organized criminality becomes dominant once again; society
itself is object of control and repression like jail (a reality that will in particular affect immigrants in the
Nineties).
The phenomenon of juvenile gangs of the Seventies and this cultural area have almost always been
neglected by historians and sociologists.
Emilio Quadrelli, born in Genoa in 1956, is researcher for the Department of Anthropological
Sciences at Genoa University. His studies focus on criminality and immigration. He is also the author
of La città e le ombre. Crimini, criminali, cittadini” (Feltrinelli 2003) with Alessandro Dal Lago.
Francesco Codello
ANARCHIA KIT
NE' OBBEDIRE NE' COMANDARE
ANARCHY KIT
NEITHER OBEY, NOR ORDER
ELEUTHERA
Forthcoming: April 2009
“This is not a compendium of anarchy.
It’s a tool box including words that may help you to experience freedom.”
This book approaches to the idea of anarchy from an unusual point of view, through keywords that
often seem to have hardly something to do with a political ideology. In fact, anarchy is presented here
as a particular way of life and an existential choice, rather than a political theory. This is because the
author, by one hand has his own view of an anarchist way of life, on the other hand his texts is
expressly addressed to young readers. The result is so far from boring and often outdated political
debates.
An anarchy to be experienced in daily life, something significant and useful for any person who wants
to change him/herself while helping to change the world around him/her.
Francesco Codello works in the educational system in Treviso and is an activist for the International
Democratic Education Network. He collaborates with the review "Libertaria" and is the author of
Educazione e anarchismo (Ferrara, 1995) and La buona educazione (Milano, 2005).
Ombretta Ingrascì
DONNE D’ONORE
Storie di mafia al femminile
HONORABLE WOMEN
Stories of Mafia Women
Foreword by Renate Siebert
Sociology - Anthropology - Gender studies
Bruno Mondadori, 2007 - 200 pp.
* Spanish rights sold (451Editores)
* German rights reserved
Full English translation available
Women and mafia: a fascinating
journey inside a still mysterious
world
What has been the role of women inside the Italian mafia? How
has it changed in the last thirty years?
Far for the traditional image of woman as a simple mother and
wife, and therefore a victim of mafia bosses, this book offers a
«Ombretta Ingrascì suggests that one the keys to passionate and well documented study about the active role of
the understanding of new mafia patterns is the
the ladies of Cosa Nostra and ‘Ndrangheta.
role that women have been assuming in the
criminal world.»
Salvo Palazzolo, La Repubblica
«Epitomising such a troubled emancipation is
the dramatic life of Rita Atria, a teenager who
turned state’s evidence, whose diary full of
painful thoughts reminds of another diary
opposing another oppressive power: Anna
Frank’s one.»
Jole Garuti, L’Indice
«Ombretta Ingrascì’s book is an excellent
introduction to such a complex phenomenon as
mafia. »
Renate Siebert, author of Le donne, la mafia
(English translation: Secrets of Life and
Death, Verso)
By relying mainly on court cases and testimonies of direct
protagonists - women who turned state’s evidence - whom she
personally interviewed, Ingrascì explores how women have
started to be involved in criminal activities, from drugs
trafficking to finance management and money laundering,
sometimes becoming true “lady bosses”.
The new female participation in the mafia, though, was not a
sign of women’s liberation within the mafia labour market.
Escaping the social, political and cultural framework formed by
mafia families - ruled by rigid honour codes - is still nowadays
more difficult for women, whose identity has been forged inside
them.
Combining academic rigour with a multidisciplinary approach characterized by a refined selection of sociological,
psychological and juridical literature - and a lively style, this
book will appeal to a vast readership.
Ombretta Ingrascì (1974) holds a PhD from Queen Mary College, University of London, where she
graduated with a thesis titled Mafia Women in Contemporary Italy. Focusing her scholarship about
organized crime, she has published several articles on the topic. She currently combines research with
University teaching, and is also involved in projects and activities of education to legality for secondary
schools.
Philosophy
Lorenzo Spezia
IL PIPISTRELLO E IL SOLE
Livelli di conoscenza ed esperienza mistica nel pensiero di Tommaso
d’Aquino
[The bat and the sun. Levels of knowledge and mistical experience in
Thomas of Aquino’s thought]
Il Leone Verde 2008
228 pages – size 11x19
16,00 euro
During the Middle Ages, scholars were convinced that bats could count on very sensitive eyes, perfectly
suitable for nocturnal darkness; on the other hand, their eyes had to be useless during the day, in the
shining sun light.
Recognising a symbolic connection between human beings and bats, these animal were used to
represent human sensitivity to material goods (the darkness of worldly night), but also human blindness
towards the spiritual dimension (brightness of the sun).
Thomas of Aquino affirms that it is just this spiritual horizon what can lead humans to happiness; but
this is something that does not concern everyday knowledge: so, many people think this is not even a
significant area of discussion.
This work tries to show Thomas's philosophy in its completeness: the experiences that we make with
our five senses are neither the only source nor the most important of cognition, but they are just a
means to start along the path of growth and real consciousness.
Lorenzo Spezia is priest for the community of “Ricostruttori nella Preghiera” and a philosopher. He
studied Thomas of Aquino’s thought at the Dominican University in Bologna and also got a doctorate
in philosophy at the Papal University in Rome.
Norberto Bobbio – Umberto Campagnolo
Dialogo sulla
politica della cultura
il melangolo
autumn 2009
pp. 70 - Euro 10,00
An in-depth and synthetic analysis of contemporary
political philosophy
The book includes a well documented introduction by Davide Cadeddu, and three essays – the first by
Umberto Campagnolo is a short overview on the fundamentals of political philosophy, from Plato to
Hegel; the second text by Norberto Bobbio is the core of the book – Bobbio criticizes an exceedingly
abstract cocept of political philosopy and claims for an active and decisive role of this discipline in
tangible reality, so to educate eeach individual to democracy. The third text is a calm but firm reply by
Campagnolo to Bobbio.
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Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004), philosopher and historian, an outstanding and influential intellectual figure of
20th century in Italy. His main essays include: Profilo ideologico del Novecento italiano, Il futuro della democrazia, Il terzo
assente, Destra e sinistra, De Senectute.
Umberto Campagnolo (1904-1976), was professor of History of Political Theories at the Universities of
Padua and Venice, and founder of the European Society of Culture and the journal “Comprendre”.
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Maurizio Ferraris
Ridere e piangere davvero
Laughing and crying, for real
Il melangolo
Series: Altrescritture
110 pages
March 2009
The first “soap opera” in the history of philosophy
The first feuilleton or, better, the first soap opera in the history of philosophy.
In 45 astonishing and riveting episodes, the book explores the paradox of fictitious
situations . while this subject seems to be quite theoretical, it deeply affects our everyday
lives, and in a number of activities, such as going to cinema, reading novels, watching TV
movies and so on. Here is the paradox: can you really cry for Anna Karenina, who is not
real, a fiction? And more in general: what is the difference between crying for a movie and
crying for the death of Lady Diana? And the subject becomes more complicated in the case
of laughing. We really laugh for jokes, even if they are about unreal events.
So, what is the difference between laughing and crying for real?
The question is serious and regards both the “crying” and the “for real”, and in general all
the feelings in our life. With humour and philosophical depth, the author tries to explain,
with an unusual approach, why we like novels and movies so much and why feelings are
so important in our life.
Maurizio Ferraris is professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Turin University and has
been visiting professor in major European and American universities. He collaborates with
the newspaper Il Sole 24 ore and is the author of more than 30 books, including: Dove sei?
Ontologia del telefonino (Bompiani 2005), winner of the Castiglioncello Philosophy Prize;
Babbo Natale, Gesù Adulto. In cosa crede chi crede? (Bompiani 2006); La fidanzata automatica
(Bompiani 2007); Il tunnel delle multe. Ontologia degli oggetti quotidiani (Einaudi) and Storia
dell’ontologia (Bompiani 2008). In 2008 he was awarded with the “Viaggio a Siracusa”
Philosophy Prize for his scientific activity. Some of his books have been translated in
English, French, German and Spanish
Simone Regazzoni
HARRY POTTER E LA FILOSOFIA
HARRY POTTER AND PHILOSOPHY
Following the big success of “Dr. House and Philosophy”,
Harry Potter is now investigated through the lens of philosophy
Il Melangolo, July 2008
Series: Altrescritture
pp. 110-Euro 10.00
Some well-known mathematicians and philosophers have accused Harry Potter to destroy rationality. Is
this really true?
In this magic book, the author - a philosopher himself - shows how JK Rowling’s saga provides an
extraordinary mean to reflect, seriously and pleasantly, on man’s great questions since ever:
philosophical questions, but also those we are confronted to in our daily life.
What is evil? How could we be happy? What does it mean to be brave? Does Justice really exist? Is
Magic only superstition? Which is the relationship between magic and technology?
Each chapter discusses a subject of the saga in a conversation dealing with the great questions of
philosophy and existence between the author and Harry, Hermione, Albus Dumbledore, but also with
Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger, thus proving that Harry potter is much more helpful that maths in
educating children to thinking.
Simone Regazzoni is a professor at the Catholic University in Milan. He published several books on
philosophy, among which La filosofia del Dr. House (The philosophy of Dr. House, Ponte alle Grazie) that
sold more than 20.000 copies.
Minimalia Chora, a collection of philosophical readings
published by IBIS
With this collection of studies Ibis offers a set of essential and clear tools for all readers
approaching classic works of Western thought. Minimalia Chora books have been
designed and written both for laymen and expert readers; the language is easily
comprehensive but quite accurate because every title is written by an expert. The authors
are all teachers and young researchers. A unique collection of philosophical texts.
Alessandro Galvan
LEGGERE L’ETICA DI SPINOZA
READING SPINOZA'S ETHICS
110x170 mm
170 pages
Alessandro Galvan teaches Philosophy and History. Promoter and
President of the Philosophical Research Group “Chora” since 1998,
he is an expert of Spinoza and 16th century Rationalism.
Daniele Albasini
LEGGERE UNA TEORIA DELLA GIUSTIZIA DI RAWLS
READING A THEORY OF JUSTICE BY RAWLS
110x170 mm
170 pages
Daniele Albasini graduated in Political Philosophy at the University of
Pavia.. He lives in Milan, where he works as human resources
manager for a private company. He is one of the promoters of the
“Chora” Group
Matteo Canevari
LEGGERE LA GENEALOGIA DELLA MORALE DI
NIETZSCHE
READING THE NIETZSCHE’S “GENEALOGIE DER MORAL”
110 x 170
160 pages
Matteo Canevari obtained his philosophy degree at the University of
Pavia and is a researcher at the University of Geneva. He was one of the founder of the
Chora Group. He published an essay on Georges Bataille.
Gino Zaccaria
PENSARE IL NULLA. LEOPARDI, HEIDEGGER
THINKING THE NOTHING. LEOPARDI, HEIDEGGER
110 x 170
234 pages
"In somma il principio delle cose, e di Dio stesso, è il nulla".
Leopardi (Zibaldone 1341)
.
Gino Zaccaria teaches Hermeneutics and Aesthetics at the "Bocconi" University, Milan
and is the co-ordinator of the Philosophy and History Master School in the same university.
Food & Culture
Anonimo
LA CUOCA DI BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI
La cucina spagnola al tempo della "guerra civile". Ricette e
ricordi
Foreword by Luigi Veronelli
DeriveApprodi 2002
208 pages (with illustrations)
ISBN 88-87423-82-2
16,00 euro
Nadine’s diary was written between 1932 and 1939, the years of the Spanish civil war, one the most
tragic times in modern history. Nadine is a revolutionary activist from the “Durruti” column: she is
part and symbol of all those young people who fought for freedom and equality.
This book certainly offers a testimony of extraordinary experiences and remarkable people, with
their strong ideals, but also illusions and limits. In the same time, Nadine tells the reader about
everyday life in war, about the search of the most essential goods, about food: recipes, ingredients,
cooking and eating become a way to show an existence shared by friends, among frightful risks and
moments of happiness.
Gianni Emilio Simonetti
LA VIVANDIERA DI MONTELIMAR
THE SUTLER FROM MONTELIMAR
The century of logic rebellions and the birth of modern cuisine in the
memories of a petroleuse
DeriveApprodi 2004
208 pages (with illustrations)
ISBN 88-88738-52-5
15,00 euro
A 17th century Neapolitan painting, Paris in 1871 during the Commune, a cooking school for
managers - three apparently different fictional cues that are linked by the narrating character,
Ginevra. So, the reader is told about both the victims of the repression which follows the
unsuccessful insurrection and a cook who has to serve arrogant middle class people, after
experiencing hunger.
Ginevra’s narration goes back to the origins of culinary culture and habits, revealing how food can
become an instrument of domination and hypocrisy, explaining the formation of modern taste,
telling about the “bread revolts” at the end of the 19th century - the despair of poverty as opposed to
an age of pleasures and Aestheticism.
Gianni Emilio Simonetti is both an artist and a theorist of art. He is one of the few Italian artists
linked to Situationism; he has taken part in the artistic and political experience of “Fluxus” and to
“Cramps/Multipla”; he also created the magazine “La Gola” in the contest of the material cultures.
His previous books: L’agonia e i suoi sarti. 1968-1998: le ragioni dell'assalto e quelle della resa
(1998), La funzione sociale dell'arte e la follia. Medicalizzare l'alterità (2001).
Anonimo
LA CUOCA ROSSA
THE RED COOK
History of a Spartacis cell in the Bauhaus. With German recipes
Foreword by Luigi Veronelli
DeriveApprodi 2003
192 pages (with illustrations)
ISBN 88-88738-11-8
15,00 euro
German rights sold
Hannah R. is a cook for the Bauhaus, the legendary school of art, architecture and design
established by W. Gropius at the time of the Weimar Republic.
Everybody calls her the “Red Cook”: she leads a group of students and teachers (all in close
relationship with Paul Klee) to join Spartacism and create a specific cell within the school.
Memories and recipes build a peculiar biography, showing both the artist and the activist. The
narration is also formed by passionate discussions about art and revolution, by encounters with
some of the outstanding figures of Mitteleuropean culture – in those agitated years: W. Kandinsky,
R. M. Rilke, A. Schnitzler…
Eventually, this work shows the contrast between the passion and the energies of revolutionaries
and a historical situation of angst and sense of powerlessness. Hannah and her comrades seem to
challenge those middle class people that a few years later will welcome the National Socialism. It is
a significant portrait of brave people: they are ready to fight, but also aware of the difficulties
determined by their choice.
Anonimo
LA CUCINA IMPUDICA
SHAMELESS KITCHEN
Secret recipes of a lady of pleasure, revealed to whom is considering to
become a lady of pleasure
Foreword by Luigi Veronelli
DeriveApprodi 2001
144 pages (with illustrations)
ISBN 88-87423-75-X
14,46 euro
Spanish rights sold
The diary of a high-class prostitute tells about life in Paris during the Thirties: encounters with
writers, musicians and painters in the same cultural context described by Walter Benjamin,
Surrealism, universal exhibitions. On the other hand, the narrating character is not just a prostitute,
but also a writer, a model, an actress… a cook.
The fascination of this past age is wonderfully evoked by the calibrated mixture of refined and juicy
recipes, memories, anecdotes, short stories; an effective narration of a fertile artistic and intellectual
moment is offered through a real erotic recipe book.
The gastronomic element in this work is particularly interesting: pleasure of senses is exalted
without any hypocrisies, without any shame. Recipes are clearly explained and simply ordered in
three sections. Ingredient doses and cooking times have been adapted to modern tastes and
technologies.
This diary has been saved from a destiny of oblivion when it was found - bound with two pastrymaking manuals on a bookstall in the Flohmarkt in Vienna; the manuscript dates back to
1919/1931.
This book is enriched by thirty erotic photographic and graphic illustrations.
Luigi Veronelli was an oenologist and a great expert of cooking, whose authority is a guarantee of
the interest of this unconventional work.
Davide Dutto e Michele Marziani
IL GAMBERO NERO
THE BLACK LOBSTER
Recipes from jail
DeriveApprodi 2006
144 pages
ISBN 88-88738-64-9
19,00 euro
German rights sold
This photographic book of recipes was created to tell something about everyday life in a prison in
Piedmont. Since in jail senses are particularly injured by deprivation, food can become a way to
hold out and show off tastes and cooking skills. Moreover, cooking and eating together offer a path
to remember, to teach, to share in the very same time.
This literary contribution comes from the year spent by the authors in the prison of Fossano, where
they cooked and eaten in their cells, learning and now showing recipes from all over the world,
because of the international origin of prisoners in Italy, whose stories are traced pic after pic.
Davide Dutto has become a photographer (after an unsuccessful military call-up) and lives in
Piedmont.
Michele Marziani is a free-lance journalist; he lives and works in Milan and Rimini. He mainly
writes about territorial habits, food and wine, but his first passion is politically and socially
committed journalism.
Sinfonia gastronomica.
Musica, eros, cucina
Gastronomic symphony.
Music, Eros, cooking
By Roberto Iovino e Ileana Mattion
Viennepierre edizioni, 2006
pages 298, 18,00 euro
Spanish rights sold (Siruela); Russian rights under negotiation
What did the Romans eat at their time? And in which way were knights supposed to attend their
beloved dame at table in the Middle Ages? Does anybody know how to prepare a baroque dish or
to re-create a perfect futuristic lunch?
All these really delicious items are investigated by the authors, dipping into the special
relationship between music, erotic love and cooking, all of them perfectly reflecting society’s
evolution.
The book’s structure follows the tempos of a symphony: Adagio, Allegro with motion, Andante with
changes, Scherzo, Rondò vivace and final Adagio.
The first tempo is a trip through the arts of gastronomy and music from the ancient Greeks to
modern fast-food.
The second is dedicated to the theatre, where a toast or a dinner have often represented the climax
of a situation. In the Scherzo, some famous gourmet-musicians like Haendel, Brahms, Rossini,
Verdi show how easy it was, sometimes, to put apart a music score and concentrate on a juicy
menu.
In the Rondò vivace the authors set us a typical roman, medieval, renaissance, baroque or romantic
table, with their original recipes and music pieces.
Roberto Iovino. Born in Genoa, 1953. Professor of History of Music at the “N.Paganini” School of
music in Genoa. As a music critic, he colaborates with the newspaper “la Repubblica” and several
music reviews. He conceived and coordinated the Verdi’s celebrations “Genova 2001” and the project
“Caro Amadeus - Liguria 2006”. Amongst his publications: Mascagni, l’avventuroso dell’opera (1987),
Musica & gastronomia (con I. Mattion, 1997), Gli Strauss (1998), Giuseppe Verdi, genovese (a cura di R.
Iovino e S. Verdino, 2000), Niccolò Paganini, un genovese nel mondo (con F: Oranges, 2004), Musica &
Humor (con F. Oranges, 2005), Fabrizio De André, l’ultimo trovatore (2006).
Ileana Mattion. Born in Genoa, 1964, graduated in Guitar and in bio-music at the “N. Paganini” School
of music in Genoa. Since 1988 she leaded researches in musicology and history of music, publishing
several books amogst with: Carlo Felice, un teatro nella storia (con R. Iovino, a cura del “Corriere
Mercantile”, 1990), I palcoscenici della lirica – Dal Falcone a Carlo Felice (con R. Iovino e G. Tanasini,
Genova, 1990). She collaborates with musical programmes for the public TV Rai.
Andrea Perin
RICETTE SCORRETTE
Racconti e piatti di cucina meticcia
INCORRECT RECIPES.
Tales and dishes from half-caste cookery
elèuthera
Forthcoming: March 2009
There are few things that distinguish a people more than its cooking: food is not only taste, but also
identity and deep relationship with one’s community. Who decides or is forced to live in a foreign
country is forced to change his habits and language, but always tries to maintain something of his
traditional cooking. In Italy, a country the identity of which is most due to its cooking tradition,
immigration is a quite recent phenomena and the cooking habits of newcomers are often marginalized.
However, in spite of the domination of spaghetti and pizza, there are many curious people who, in the
shadow of their kitchens, are beginning to mix tastes and traditions, to create new dishes. The result is a
series of incorrect recipes that you cannot find neither in the Italian nor in the ethnic recipe books: with
unconventional tastes, new ingredients, flavours that contaminate the correctness of original recipes.
Andrea Perin works in Milan as museum architect and exhibition designer (the most recent, Maestri
della scultura in legno nel Ducato degli Sforza) and museums (including the National Archaeological Museum
of Vigevano). He is also keen on cooking traditions and published with Eleuthera La fame aguzza
l’ingegno, a book of “poor” recipes now at its second edition.
Books by Andrea Perin already published by Eleuthera:
Andrea Perin
LA FAME AGUZZA L’INGEGNO
cucina buona in tempi difficili
Andrea Perin
COSE DA MUSEO
Avvertenze per il visitatore curioso
first edition 2005 first reprint 2006
2007
Series: “Leggere è un gusto!”
(Literature & Cooking)
Il Leone Verde Edizioni
The series “Leggere è un gusto!” (a slogan that could be translated as “Reading has
a pleasant taste”) is entirely devoted to an unusual twinning: that between food and
literature.
Cookery, food, banquets are often important elements of literature and other arts.
The books published in this series explore the interlacements of gastronomic and
literary elements, emphasise the expressive value of the dishes and the pleasures of
the table described in novels (as in films or paintings), examine their influences on
characters and plots – and provide recipes as in any typical cookbook: true food for the
mind and the body!
Each title – 40 published so far – is dedicated to a different subject: cooking in ’The
Arabian Nights’, cooking in Italian, British and American pop and rock songs, cooking
in opera, literature, cinema, visual arts and so on. The authors are keen scholars of
the relationship between food and literature, or experts in their subject, or even chefs.
A dedicated website - www.leggereungusto.it - has recently been created with the
purpose of building a community of keen readers, where they can discuss their
favourite subjects, find curious and interesting information, and be invited to readings
and special events dedicated to the relationship between food and literature.
Contributors to the website are the authors of the books.
Graziella Martina
IL MIO APPRENDISTATO IN CUCINA
Le ricette di Colette
[My cooking apprenticeship. Colette’s recipes]
Il Leone verde - Series "Leggere è un gusto"
110 pages – size 14x18
ISBN 978-88-95177-49-6
10,00 euro
Colette’s life has known a long and complicated evolution: born as “Gabrielle
Sidonie”, she became madame Willy and then baroness of Juvenel des Ursins,
ending her life simply as Colette. Along and after this long life path, food had a very
important role. Above all, cooking and tasting were source of inspiration for her:
Colette, a pleasure-loving and greedy woman, was able to transform her passions
into creative genius and energy.
Graziella Martina, who lives near Turin, is the author of several tourist guides and
travel books.
Stefania Campo
I SEGRETI DELLA TAVOLA DI MONTALBANO
Le ricette di Andrea Camilleri
[Secrets from Montalbano’s kitchen. Andrea Camilleri’s recipes]
Il Leone verde - Series "Leggere è un gusto"
100 pages – size 14x18
ISBN 978-88-95177-47-2
10,00 euro
This book shows Andrea Camilleri’s gastronomic perspective, expressed through
his most famous character – Montalbano, who is greedy and always starving. This
becomes the occasion to offer a tasty choice of traditional Sicilian dishes, with an
important contribution from Camilleri’s family memories.
In fact, food is often present in his stories, acquiring a strong affective value,
symbolizing maternal love. And this passion is shared by the fictional
superintendent: food is the fundamental object of desire and the most striking
source of pleasure.
The author seems to lead the reader to silently sit and calmly savour these
wonderful dishes.
Stefania Campo is an architect and is specialised in photography and digital
cinema; she works also as a teacher She lives partly in Milan and partly in Ragusa,
where she promotes an association called “Sicilian Movietour”, which offers cultural
and gastronomic routes inspired by literature and cinema.
TITLES PUBLISHED IN THE SERIES:
Irene Cabiati
THE WORLD’S TOUR IN 80 RECIPES –
TRAVELLING WITH JULES VERNE
110 p. – 2008
Emanuela Profumo
HAVING DINNER ON THE ENTERPRISE –
RECIPES AND DELICACIES AMONG THE STARS
120 p. - 2007
Germana Merenda
CHARLIE CHAPLIN – RECIPES FROM LIFE AND
MASTERPIECES
110 p. – 2008
Sonia Piloto Di Castri
WATER FOR THE CHOCOLATE –
COOKERY
UNDER
PANCHO
REVOLUTION
64 p. - 2007
Enzo Tumminello
NERO WOLFE IN THE KITCHEN MYSTERY RECIPES AND TASTES
110 p. – 2008 (November)
Andrea Maia
THE LAND OF BENGODI –
FOOD AND COOKERY
IN
VILLA’S
BOCCACCIO’S
DECAMERON
80 p. – 2007
Elisabetta Chicco Vitzizzai
DINING WITH SCARLETT O’ HARA RECIPES FROM GONE WITH THE WIND
100 p. – 2008
Andrea Maia
DUBLIN PUBS – JAMES JOYCE’S IRISH COOKING
97 p. – 2005
Paolo Ferrero
LA SALSA DEL DIAVOLO DI BEPPE FENOGLIO
110 p.-10 euro – 2008
Cristina Caneva
THE WONDERTABLE –
SITTING DOWN TO
CARROLL’S ALICE
90 p.-10 euro - 2008
EAT
WITH
LEWIS
Giovanni Casalegno
THE MOON, FOOD AND BONFIRES –
COOKERY ON CESARE PAVESE’S HILLS
90 p. - 2008
Luca Glebb Miroglio
DINING WITH “I MALAVOGLIA” –
GIOVANNI VERGA AND SICILIAN PEASANT
COOKERY
112 p. - 2008
Guido Guidi Guerrera
DINING WITH MAIGRET – CRIMES AND SAUCES
100 p. - 2007
Anna Vivarelli
AT THE INN WITH PINOCCHIO –
A PUPPET’S RECIPES
106 p. - 2005
Luca Glebb Miroglio
FEMALE COOKERS ON THE VERGE OF A
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN –
DINING WITH PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
90 p. - 2007
Rosa Giangoia
AT THE BANQUET WITH DANTE THE CUISINE IN THE DIVINA COMMEDIA
88 p. – 2006
Luca Ragagnin
PRAGUE FLAMBÉ –
MAGIC RECIPES AND PORTENTUOUS DRINKS IN
CZECH LITERATURE
160 p. – 2007
Roberta Deiana
IN THE KITCHEN WITH THE ARTIST OF SPICES
– INDIAN CUISINE IN CHITRA BANERJEE
DIVAKARUNI’S NOVELS
101 p. – 2007
Roberto Carretta
AT THE TAVERN WITH SHAKESPEARE
ROMEO AND JULIET’S RECIPES
84 p. – 2005
Flavio Russo
HAVING DINNER WITH THE INNKEEPER RECIPES OF CARLO GOLDONI
p. 92 – 2005
Domenico Carosso
DINING WITH ALESSANDRO MANZONI
80 p. – 2007
Elisabetta Chicco Vitzizzai
SITTING DOWN TO EAT WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
–
LIFE AT A WRITER’S HOME
119 p. – 2006
Marina Cepeda Fuentes
DON CHISCIOTTE. DINING WITH THE SAD
KNIGHT
150 p. – 2006
Annarita Zara
COOKING IN HOMER’S ODYSSEYRECIPES AND CURIOSITY OF A MYTHICAL
VOYAGE
86 p. – 2006
Barbara Buganza
GREEN FRIED TOMATOES AND OTHER
RECIPES BIG AND SMALL REVOLUTIONS AT THE TRAIN
STOP
84 p. – 2006
Enzo Tumminello
ACTION! LOVE RECIPES AT CINEMA
p. 90 - 2005
Marina Cepeda Fuentes
SURREALISM IN THE KITCHEN BETWEEN
BREAD AND EGG RECIPES OF SALVADOR DALÍ
p. 140 - 2005
Daniela Messi, Roberta Anau
THE CUISINE OF THE BIBLE
86 p. 2002
Anna Rita Zara, Maurizio Tiani
THE CUISINE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS –
DINING WITH CALIPHS
90 p. - 2002
Roberto Carretta
COOKING IN THE FAIRY TALES
90 p. - 2002
Maurizio Gelatti
CRIME IS SERVED –
MENUS FROM AGATHA CHRISTIE
80 p. – 2004
Loredana Limone
COOKING IN MATILDE SERAO’S NEAPLES
p. 100 - 2003
Dada Rosso
HAVING DINNER WITH THE CZARS –
COOKING IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
p. 119 -2004
Allegra Alacevich
HAVING DINNER WITH BABETTE THE RECIPES OF KAREN BLIXEN
74 p. - 2003
Barbara Buganza
COOKING WITH BANANA YOSHIMOTO
p. 100 - 2003
Massimo Novelli
COOKING WITH CARLO EMILIO GADDA
p. 100 - 2003
Daniela Messi
ANDERSEN’S COOKING - FAIRY FOOD, MAGIC
Luca Ragagnin
SONGS TO EAT - A LITTLE GASTRO-POP
FOOD
DICTIONARY
80 p – 2006
130 p. - 2003
Elena Carcano
THE LEOPARD’S BANQUET –
HAVING
DINNER
WITH
TOMASI
LAMPEDUSA’S SICILIAN ARISTOCRACY
p. 84 - 2005
Corrado Rollin
RECIPES IN OPERA AND CONCERT
80 p. - 2003
Luca Glebb Miroglio
IN SEARCH OF THE MADELAINE
RECIPES OF MARCEL PROUST
p. 85 - 2006
DI
Elisabetta Chicco Vitzizzai
THE TASTY COOKING OF MADAME BOVARY –
RECIPES FROM EMILE FLAUBERT’S TIMES
90 p. - 2002
Parenting
Sara Honnegger
UN MONDO DI PAPPE
I saperi delle mamme nell’alimentazione del bambino da 0 a 6 anni
[A world of baby food. Mothers’ knowledge about babies’ feeding
from 0 to 6 months]
Foreword by Franco De Luca
Il Leone verde 2009
144 pages – size 15x21
14,00 euro
Among the questions and the problems that the birth of a baby arises, certainly there is the aspect of
nutrition and choice of food: in particular, during the first months of a new baby’s life attention to
products becomes fundamental.
This maternal experience can lead to two innovative results: learning an ecological approach to the
world around us and facing an educational path to the appreciation of diversity.
The author confronts the problems of children’s nutrition from this particular point of view: this book
offers recipes, memories, suggestions from mothers of many different cultures, about breast milk,
family meals, first baby food and culinary games.
In conclusion, this is an intercultural reflection about feeding: healthy food for us and Earth balance.
Sara Honnegger published several works about babies’ nutrition and education (for example Piccoli
Golosi), but also about ecological feeding (for example Cucina naturale and La cucina facile ed ecologica). She
collaborates with many magazines as "Donna moderna", "Star Bene", "Marie Claire", "La cucina
naturale", "D La Repubblica delle Donne", the Sunday edition of "Il Sole 24 Ore", writing about
natural medicine, female health, natural feeding.
Franco De Luca
BAMBINI E (TROPPE) MEDICINE
Difendersi dall’eccessiva medicalizzazione dei nostri figli
[Children and (too many) drugs. Defending ourselves from the
excessive medicalisation of our children]
Il Leone verde
150 pages – size 13,5x22
ISBN 978-88-95177-42-7
14,00 euro
This book helps new parents in acquiring certainty and confidence while attending to their growing
kids.
As children’s problems are more and more often faced through drugs, the author tries to offer a critical
point of view in considering this kind of solutions, which are frequently source of collateral damages.
So, this work suggest some recipes of home made preparations and foods that can resolve non serious
children’s pathologies.
Franco De Luca has been a paediatrician for the Family Advice Bureau of Campagnano di Roma; he
is now the manager of the operative unit for “Preventive Medicine of Evolutionary Age”.
Paola Negri
DAI ANCORA IL LATTE?
Perché allattare dopo il primo anno
[Do you still feed? Why feeding after the first year]
Il Leone verde 2008
150 pages – size 13,5x22
ISBN 978-88-95177-45-8
14,00 euro
The author provides useful scientific information about feeding, not only during the first months of life
of the baby, but also during and after the weaning.
The great value of this kind of diet is certainly related to the nutritional qualities of human milk, but it
can represent an important element of care, too. So, this book examines feelings and problems of
feeding mothers as well as cultural and social prejudices that can hinder the continuation of this special
relationship when the child is not a newborn baby anymore.
Some real experiences of feeding mothers, seen in different situations, are also described.
Paola Negri, is the author of another work about feeding (“Tutte le mamme hanno il latte”) and lives
in Florence.
Elena Dal Prà
VIA IL PANNOLINO!
L’educazione al vasino in una prospettiva educativa, etica ed ecologica
[Stop to nappies! Upbringing to potty-chair with an educational, ethical
and ecological perspective]
Il Leone verde 2008
150 pages – size 13,5x22
ISBN 978-88-95177-46-5
14,00 euro
Leaving nappies and starting to use a potty-chair can be a very difficult and painful moment for kids
and parents.
The author proposes a reflection about this delicate subject with a light approach. She talks about all
possible problems and dynamics of this process, offering some suggestions to face them, always
respecting children’s point of view and needs.
Her real aim is to support parents in choosing the right period for this change.
Elena Dal Prà is a journalist and lives in Gorizia.
Education
A book that suggests a poetical pedagogy,
a poetical approach to education,
an education to poetry
Raffaele Mantegazza
Educazione e poesia
Pedagogia in forma di verso
città aperta editrice
pp. 160 / Euro 14,00
Education that helps a boy to grow as a man and a girl to grow as a woman is a
complex process – it is doubtful that the discourse which tries to describe it should be
compressed by an instrumental and technological reason which pretends to be allembracing .
A poetical reason is also there. Poetry discovers reality while inventing and re-creating
it, it also creates new realities while discovering fractures, gaps, shadow areas in what
already exists – truth in poetry is in the tension between existing and new realities.
So, educating a boy or a girls is saying more, showing something that was not there,
enriching reality with new presence, dreaming a world richer with new human beings,
new subjects. Such “something more” can be communicated to students, when the
teacher's words become in turn poetry.
It is possible to educate to poetry, not only to its technical terms, but also to a spiritual
approach to it.
Raffaele Mantegazza teaches Intercultural Pedagogy at the university of Milano Bicocca.
With Città Aperta Edizioni he published Lettera a uno studente (2008), La fine dell’educazione. Un’utopia
(anti)pedagogica (2006), Pedagogia della morte. L’esperienza del morire e l’educazione al congedo (2004), Pedagogia
della resistenza. Tracce utopiche per educare a resistere (2003), L’odore del fumo. Auschwitz e la pedagogia
dell’annientamento (2001).
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