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Mandalay, Amarapura, Innwa, Sagaing, Mingun (2016-2021). Lages , Laboratorio di geografia Sociale, Univ.degli Studi di Firenze. Firenze, Polistampa 2016, cm.21,5x28, pp.320, illustrazioni a colori. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Testo Inglese. Con CD-ROM. The Sustainable Destination Plan for the Ancient Cities of Upper Myanmar: Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay is the result of a coop-eration project between the University of Florence and the Ministry of Hotels & Tourismo of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The project, set in motion in 2015, was financially supported by the Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (DGCS) of the Ital-ian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Myanmar's recent opening to international tourism creates impor-tant opportunities for economic growth. In accordance with the Myanmar Tourism Master Plan 2013-2020, this plan aims at promoting tourism in the district in the framework of a more general strategy aimed at favoring a sustainable, equitable and responsible develop-ment, ensuring at the same time the deepest consideration of the specific geographic, cultural and social aspects of the area within a multidisciplinary approach.

Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale 2014, cm.23x29, pp.88, 70 illustrazioni a colori. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Monografie di Grandi Artisti. Testo Italiano e Inglese. Nel tredicesimo secolo, Lucca era una città di numerose torri, che diedero origine a molte leggende apocrife e ampie mitologie a proposito di attacchi e difese, di avidità e avarizia, di disgrazia e vergogna e coraggio, di amore e lussuria e morte. Il regista inglese Peter Greenaway con i suoi collaboratori italiani, il coreografo Roberto Castello e il compositore Marco Robino, ha accolto con entusiasmo la richiesta trasformare questi miti in rappresentazioni narrative e cinematografiche, utilizzando i vocabolari digitali contemporanei per immagini e testi. Grazie alla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca e a Change Performing Arts di Milano, quattordici di queste storie sono state proiettate sulla facciata appena ristrutturata della Chiesa di San Francesco.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.16,8x24, pp.316, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Firenze, Aurora Boreale 2020, cm.14,8x21, pp.76, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.64, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.54, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese The deepest historical, cultural and spiritual roots of Russian national identity can be found in an ancient kingdom known as Kievan Rus', a state that flourished from the end of the 9th to the middle of the 13th century over a vast geographical area including a large part of today's western Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, from the Baltic and White Seas in the north to the Black Sea coasts in the south. According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the first ruler to start uniting East Slavic lands into what would become Kievan Rus' was Prince Oleg (879-912). He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east, and took control of the city of Kiev. Sviatoslav I (943-972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazars. Vladimir the Great (980-1015) then introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, extended it to all inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav the Wise (1019-1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, theRusskaya Pravda, shortly after his death.

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds, but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red children. The gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the calumets of the Gods, who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame. The American Indian peopled the forests, rivers, and sky with myriads of superphysical and invisible beings. There are legends of entire tribes who lived in lake bottoms; of races who were never seen in the daytime but who, coming forth from their hidden caves, roamed the earth at night and waylaid unwary travelers; also of Bat Indians, with human bodies and wings, who lived in gloomy forests and inaccessible cliffs and who slept hanging head downward from outcroppings of rock. The red man's philosophy of elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with Nature, whose inexplicable wonders become the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.252, brossura. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2020, cm.14,8x21, pp.142, brossura. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.76, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.104, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.248, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet, writer and playwright of the Victorian era. Active in the aesthetic circle, romantic and then decadent, he met Oscar Wilde and other famous intellectuals and artists of the same environment, attending the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and becoming a friend of the poet, artist and initiate Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Eccentric personality, with a strong taste for artistic provocation, inspired by writers such as the Marquis de Sade, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Charles Baudelaire, his poetry was very controversial, due to its themes (sadomasochism, suicide, lesbianism, irreligiosity); his lyrics are also characterized by original versification solutions, by the cult of paganism and the idealized Middle Ages, and of absolute freedom. From 1903 to 1909 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. With Alfred Edward Housman, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Ernest Dowson and William Butler Yeats, he is considered one of the most representative lyric poets of Victorian literature. He died in Putney (London) on April 10, 1909. Swinburne's literary output is vast and includes poems, plays, songs, novels, short stories and essays on literary criticism. Songs before Sunrise, first published in London in 1871 and dedicated to the Italian revolutionary and Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini, is one of Swinburne's finest collections of poetry. Based on his pagan and pantheistic ideals and on the revolutionary spirit of that time, it is a devoted and warm homage to Italy and the Mediterranean, with references to ancient mythology and the national independence of peoples.

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.96, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.160, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively absolute time and space. His critiques of mathematics and science are among the most controversial, brilliant and revolutionary in the history of philosophy. «I have been a long time distrusting my senses: methought I saw things by a dim light and through false glasses. Now the glasses are removed and a new light breaks in upon my under standing. I am clearly convinced that I see things in their native forms, and am no longer in pain about their unknown nature or absolute existence. This is the state I find myself in at present; though, indeed, the course that brought me to it I do not yet thoroughly comprehend. You set out upon the same principles that Academics, Cartesians, and the like sects usually do; and for a long time it looked as if you were advancing their philosophical Scepticism: but, in the end, your conclusions are directly opposite to theirs».

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.13x18, pp.64, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.76, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The exaltation of the base nature in man, by the development of his latent powers; the purification, conversion, and transmutation of man; the achievement of a hypostatic union of man with God. Not only was all this the concealed aim of Alchemy, but the process by which this union was effected, veiled under the symbolism of chemistry, is the process with which the literature is concerned, which process also is alone described by all veritable adepts. The man who by proper study and contemplation, united to an appropriate interior attitude, with a corresponding conduct on the part of the exterior personality, attains a correct interpretation of Hermetic symbolism, will, in doing so, be put in possession of the secret of divine reunion, and will, so far as the requisite knowledge is concerned, be in a position to encompass the great work of the Mystics. The power which operates in the transmutation of metals alchemically is, in the main, a psychic power. That is to say, a man who has passed a certain point in his spiritual development, after the mode of the Mystics, has a knowledge and control of physical forces which are not in the possession of ordinary humanity.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.128, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.13x20, pp.54, illustrazioni. brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885-1974) was an American philosopher, pacifist and peace activist.  He was one of the first Americans to live and work with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and brought Gandhian philosophy to America in the early 20th century. He wrote extensively on peace and simplicity. His two major works wereThe Power of Non-Violence (first published in 1934) and The Value of Voluntary Simplicity (he coined the term), but he also wrote many other short books and pamphlets. Throughout his life Bartlett Gregg corresponded with numerous important figures of the 20th. Century, including Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Aldous Huxley, Martin Luther King, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bertram Russell, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and many others. He visited India several times and lived there for a number of years. The Bartlett Gregg's pamphlet Gandhiism versus Socialism was published in New York in 1932. «Gandhiism - wrote Gregg - is superior to Socialism in providing for every person a common daily form of social service to help directly toward creating a new social and economic order». «Gandhiism never gives to the State the paramount power accorded to it by Socialism. The freedom of the human conscience is a priceless treasure which Gandhiji is not prepared to barter for anything else on earth. If he gives to the State a certain measure of obedience it is never with regard to the fundamentals».

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.236, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Aurora Boreale 2021, cm.14,8x21, pp.156, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2019, cm.14,8x21, pp.62, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana The House of Wisdom. Testo in Inglese Abu-Muhammad Muslih Al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known by his pen-name Saadi, or Saadi of Shiraz (Saadi Shirazi), was the major Persian poet and prose writer during the Middle Age. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname "Master" or "Master of Speech". He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well, sand his Bustan is universally considered one of the houndred greatest books of all time. In addition to the Bustan and the Gulistan, his masterworks, Saadi also wrote four books of love poems (ghazals), and number of longer mono-rhyme poems (qasidas) in both Persian and Arabic, including the Pand Namah, or Scroll of Wisdom, the small volume of poetry that we present today in this new edition, faithful to the version edited and published by Arthur Naylor Wollaston in New York in 1906.