Viaggio pittoresco alle isole Eolie.

ill.di G.Rochegrosse. Paris, Libr.Pierre Lafitte & C. 1919, cm.22x30, pp.108, num.figg.bn.e tavv.a col.ft. brossura cop.fig. Coll.Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées de E.R.

Riedizione promossa dal Banco San Geminiano e San Prospero. Edizioni Analisi 1985, cm.16x24, pp.158, brossura. Coll.Archivio Storico dell'Industria Italiana. I Testi.

Questa raccolta è una collezione artigianale assemblata probabilmente negli anni '20 del '900 o poco precedentemente. Non sono presenti date, ma dalle immagine e dalla presenza di automezzi nelle figure di evince che probabilmente questi album sono stati prodotti circa negli anni '20. Collezione costituita da tre cartelle contenute in un bel cofanetto artigianale in tela con dorso e angoli in pelle. Ciascuna cartella è costituita da fogli a righe con testi scritti con penna a china in calligrafia molto chiara e nitida. Testi intercalati da cartine a colori applicate, mappe, ritagli di riviste con fotografie e testi applicati, tratti da riviste, quotidiani, guide e anche opuscoli o pubblicità d'epoca o depliant turistici. Deduciamo siano resoconti dovuti a viaggi integrati con altre informazioni e ricerche bibliografiche. --Prima cartella, America. America del Nord, Chicago, California, Niagara falls, Canada, Amercia Centrale e insulare, Panama, Brasile, Cile , Argentina, Columbia, equatore, Perù. pp.96, --Seconda cartella, Asia. Raccolta di vedute delle principali città, popolazione, costumi, rilievi, fiumi, coste. Palestina, Arabia, Turchia, Siria, Cipro, Iran e Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan Russia, India (molto ampia la trattazione dell'India), Birmania, Singapore , Penisola Malacca, Ceylon, Cina, Giappone, Sumatra, Giava, Bali, Filippine, Australia, pp.156. --Terza cartella. Africa. Colonie italiane, Libia, Eritrea , Somalia. Colonie Spagnole. Isole Canarie. Colonie Francesi, Tunisia, Fez, Tanger. Egitto, Sudan, Somalia britannica e francese, e altre località africane in appendice. pp.94.

Photographs by Enrico Formica. Malta, Miranda publishers- Priuli e Verlucca 2018, cm.33x28, pp.150, illustrazioni a colori, legatura editoriale copertina figurata a colori. Malta is unique in many ways. Its geography, culture, and long and chequered history all make it a place truly worth visiting. For the architecture and history students in particular, the Maltese archipelago offers an unparalleled experience of military structures and fortifications. Indeed, in spite their small size (Malta has a surface area of only 320 sq. km) the Maltese islands contain one of the richest concentrations of ramparts fashioned in stone to be found anywhere in the world. The military men who built and fashioned these massive bulwarks from a barren landscape of limestone hills and rocky promontories were not only capable of building highly effective barriers against attack and invasion, but were also able to endow their massive creations meant for the ‘burdensome task of defence’ with appropriate aesthetic appeal. One needs only to glimpse the dramatic and beautiful photographs presented in this volume, such as those of the gatecourt of Mdina, and the triumphal archways of Porte de Bombes, Birgu, and the Cottonera enceinte, with their delicate proportions and exquisite carvings, to appreciate the importance that was assigned to “design” in the military profession of the time. Malta owes its unique wealth of defensive buildings to two fundamental reasons – geography, and the Knights of St John. Geography placed the Island in a position of great strategic importance in the centre of the narrow channel joining the eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean; it also endowed it with an excellent natural harbour, one of the finest first-class anchorages to be found anywhere around the shores of the Mediterranean, big enough to accommodate any size of fleet; and thirdly, it furnished it with an easily worked stone ideal for realizing extensive building programmes. The fortifications featured in this book constitute only a small portion of what the islands have to offer in terms of their military architecture heritage. These have been chosen, primarily, for their iconographic and narrative power, enhanced further by Enrico Formica’s fascinating and inspired photography, which allows the buildings and their immediate context to do all the talking. The advantage of a book of this format is that it enables a very wide panoramic view that captures both the building and its surrounding landscape. This is of crucial importance where fortifications are concerned, for no other form of architecture has such a direct and critical relationship to its surrounding terrain. Fortifications were designed to exploit the commanding features of the landscape and at the very same time they were forged and moulded by it.