“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
Arnold Lobel
Books by Friends for
Christmas
Here are some of my friend’s latest
books, I want to share them with you, they make perfect gifts for
Christmas. The photographs of the authors are taken from my blog at various
events. Also …
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson
Ottavia Casagrande
Quando si spense la notte. Il principe di
Trabia, la spia che non voleva la guerra
Feltrinelli - Italian
September
3, 1939: with the outbreak of the Second World War, how long will the
non-aggression of Italy last? Galeazzo Ciano, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
aware of how troops of the Kingdom are unprepared, is looking for a man of
trust who will help him keep Italy away from the conflict. Already a
volunteer in Spain with the Franchists and decorated with military valor, eccentric,
open-minded, famous for his unruly life, Raimondo Lanza Branciforte, Prince of
Trabia works for the SIM, the military intelligence service of the regime, and
is the right man to whom entrust this risky mission.
Vera Arrivabene Valenti
Gonzaga, Raimonda Lanza di Trabia, Fabrizia Caracciolo di Castagneto and Ottavia
Casagrande
Venice - Palazzo
Papadopoli. Aman Canal Grande Venice – Mi Tocchera Ballare L’Ultimo Principe di
Trabia book launch
Andrea di Robilant
Autumn in Venice: Ernest
Hemingway and His Last Muse
Atlantic Books – English and
Italian
The remarkable story of Hemingway's love
affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there - a young
Italian girl who inspired him to complete his great final work. In the autumn
of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice,
which Hemingway called 'a goddam wonderful city'.
Alessandra and Andrea
di Robilant
Venice -
Le Stanze del Vetro - Ettore Sottsass: The Glass Exhibition
Elena d'Aosta - curated Alessandro Gradenigo and
Paolo Gaspari
preface Monica Dialuce Gambino
Accanto agli eroi. Diario della Duchessa d'Aosta: 3
preface Monica Dialuce Gambino
Accanto agli eroi. Diario della Duchessa d'Aosta: 3
Gaspari - Italiano
The
story, told through the diaries of the voluntary aid nurses of the Red Cross,
of their adventures during the last year of the war - from Caporetto to
the Battle of the Solstice, from the Battle of Vittorio Veneto to the
occupation of unredeemed territories. - A story that is like the
screenplay of a film, with hundreds of unpublished photos, biographies
and maps of the location of all the hospitals and field hospital camps.
photograph courtesy of the author
Alessandro Gradenigo and
Macleod
Lydia Fasoli – Toto Bergamo Rossi –
photographs Marie Morel
preface Jude Law
Venice The Art of Living
Rizzoli – English and Italian
Venice The Art of Living
Rizzoli – English and Italian
This beautiful
volume takes the reader behind the fabulous facades of Venice to explore its
grand interiors and local cuisine. Featuring lively anecdotal text and stunning
color photographs of private interiors otherwise not open to the public, and
including recipes from Venice and the surrounding Veneto region.
Toto Bergamo-Rossi, Barry Friedman and Valentina Marini
Clarelli Nasi
Murano - Museo del Vetro - The
Barry Friedman Collection
Photograph courtesy of the author
France Thierard
Venice as I love it. A guide to get lost with
Elzeviro – Italian, French and English
Venice
as I love it, is a travel book for women to dream and to get lost in, a valuable book of
information. It, is a guide by the traveler, France Thierard, who lives in
Venice and shares with readers her secrets, as well as, those of her friends in
the Serenissima. You
can identify yourself with the different personalities in the book; The
Dreamer, The Adventuress, The Erudite and The Elegant, all who share their art
of living and confide their secret rendezvous and places.
France Thierard
Venice - Highlights: France Thierard – Venezia Come Piace a Me – Guide Book
Venice - Highlights: France Thierard – Venezia Come Piace a Me – Guide Book
Flavio Lucchini
Il destino. Dovevo fare il contadino ma
ho incontrato la moda (e non sono uno stilista)
ilmiolibro self-publishing – Italian
The autobiography tells the story
of the golden years of Italian fashion through memories, meetings, great
designers, magazines and the protagonists of the publishing and art worlds.
Flavio Lucchini, art director and intellectual, created some of the most
important fashion magazines of the time, from Amica to Vogue Italia, L'Uomo
Vogue, to Lei, Donna, Moda and others, before moving on to art that “talks
about fashion”. An interesting journey of life and fashion with
in an unprecedented background.
Flavio Lucchini
and Stefano Boeri
Triennale
di Milano - Flavio Lucchini – Ricomincio
da 90
Carolyn Marks Blackwood – Artist – Barbara Rose and Aruna D’Souza Authors
The Story Series
Roberto Polo Gallery - English
In the past, Carolyn Marks Blackwood's photographs have ranged from
abstractions to specific subjects that reference nature. The Story Series is
different. These large-scale monumental photographs are captioned with a line
of script that provokes the viewer to complete the story that Blackwood
initiates. Those captions are psychologically charged. Each viewer completes
the story Blackwood sets into motion, thus becoming the author of his or her
own personal narrative. People have never inhabited Blackwood's photographs.
The Story Series is no exception. No human beings are in sight, but the photographs
conjure invisible characters, whose fates are suggested by a narrative caption
at the bottom of each image. Drawing on all of her extensive visual
experiences, as well as her own feelings and emotions, Blackwood creates a new
kind of photograph that demands the participation of the viewer, lending her
images a distinct and original urgency and poignancy ...
Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Louis Huart – illustrations Paul Gavarni
Curated – Giovanni Gregoletto and Stefano
Salis with Maria Emanuela Congia Luca Busetto and Miro Graziotin –
preface Giuseppe Scaraffia
Filosofia Del Sarto
Edizioni
SUV – Italian
"When I will be a family man with a son of twenty and, if I live in the province, I will accompany him to the stagecoach station Laffitte et Caillard
and there, on the platform of the coach for Paris, I will tell him in a grave tone of voice: "O my son! Before you leave for
Paris ... I have only one thing to do tell you: choose a good tailor! "Apricots, melons and men are judged by their appearance.”
Giovanni and Virginia
Gregoletto
Veneto - Follina: - Music-Style – An Impromptu Recital in a Brewery
Veneto - Follina: - Music-Style – An Impromptu Recital in a Brewery
Joan Juliet Buck
The Price of Illusion
Washington Square Press - English
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief
of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the
world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively
readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart
of London, New York, L.A. and Paris. In a book as rich and dramatic as the life
she’s led, Joan Juliet Buck takes us into the splendid illusions of film,
fashion, and fame to reveal, in stunning, sensual prose, the truth behind the
artifice.
Tai Missoni and Joan
Juliet Buck
Vintage Party Photographs - 1990s - The
Missoni After Show Dinner Party
Isabella Palumbo Fossati
Casa
Dentro le case. Abitare a Venezia nel Cinquecento
Gambier Keller – Italian and French
A scholarly journey, lively and exciting in the Venetian daily life of
the sixteenth century through the study of 600 inventories preserved in the
archives of the notaries of the Serenissima, now in the State Archives of
Venice. The description of the furniture, the internal structure of the house,
the types of ornaments and decorations refer to the social location and
personality of those who lived there. A micro history of people, traders,
exponents of the liberal arts, patricians that composes the image of a Venice full
of life, open and welcoming, cosmopolitan and rich in goods, diversity and
cultures.
Isabella Palumbo Fossati
Casa
Casa dei Tre Oci - Solve et Coagula - Massimo Micheluzzi
Casa dei Tre Oci - Solve et Coagula - Massimo Micheluzzi
N.B.
Books
All books,
unless otherwise stated, can be bought through the various Amazon
websites
Photographs
All photographs of authors, unless otherwise stated, are
by Nally Bellati and from
http://contessanally.blogspot.com/