Cittadella e Cecilia: due esperimenti di colonia agricola socialista.

Nuova ed.aggiornata a cura di F.Domestici. Firenze, Nardini Ed. 1983, cm.17,5x24, pp.444, num.ill.bn.e col.anche a p.pag. brossura cop.fig.a col.con bandelle.

New York, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2000, cm.17x24, pp. viii,289,(7), legatura ed. cartonata bicolore, titoli in argento al dorso, sopraccoperta fig. a colori. A stint in the army and a broken heart lead Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the neophyte owner of a sailboat called the Sea Mouse. He also has a plan: to sail to Tahiti and back, and burn away his failings in hard miles at sea. First he recruits a traveling companion, another brokenhearted guy who at least knows how to sail. They set out like the Two Stooges-Seasick and Slapstick. Days without wind are days to kick back on the deck with a beer and a man-versus-nature adventure book that valorizes their journey into an essential quest for manhood. But eventually the voyage begins to take on a sharper edge. On a relentless beat across the South Pacific, they run across one solitary male sailor after another on the lam, not heroes but refugees. Both the literature and the reality of masculine adventure start to pall, and Patterson begins to long for home. But to get there, he faces the toughest of trials, single-handedly sailing the Sea Mouse across the North Pacific and through a four-day gale, conscious that no one on earth knows where he is or that he might die. The illusion that men are best tested by loneliness and adversity cracks in the force of the wind and the terrifying beat of the water, and The Water In Between becomes a hymn, not to running away but to heading home.

Musée d'art Hyacinthe Rigaud Perpignan. Sous la direction de Pascale Picard. Milano, Silvana Editoriale 2022, cm.24x28, pp.294, 320 ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata, copertina figurata a colori. Acteur incontournable de la période postimpressionniste, George Daniel de Monfreid est un artiste à part dont l’œuvre transporte le regard au cœur de ses paysages intérieurs. Son cheminement singulier de peintre naturaliste est façonné par sa relation privilégiée avec Paul Gauguin qui témoigne d’un dialogue pictural subtil dominé par la couleur et la lumière. Artiste libre, il sera toujours en retrait des mouvements picturaux contemporains mais aura une influence déterminante dans la diffusion et l’affirmation du primitivisme de Gauguin. Cet ouvrage analyse les schémas créatifs qui, d’un artiste à l’autre, participent d’une modernité fondatrice du XXe siècle.

Aosta, Tipografia Valdostana 1992, cm.12x21, pp.94, con foto a colori. Brossura copertina figurata a acolori.