Al Astar. Volume 2.

Fatti di storia vera raccontati in forma di favola. Illustraz.di Sarah Duque. Firenze, Cantini Ediz. d'Arte 1984, cm.19,5x27,5, pp.125, ill.bn.nt. brossura con bandelle, cop.fig.

Oxford, At The Clarendon Press 1989, cm.16x24, pp.XVIII,526, legatura editorialec artonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori. At age 28, William Wordsworth had neither a settled income nor the professional qualifications needed to secure one. He had no home, and he could not support the illegitimate child he had fathered during an impetuous love affair in France. The major part of a slim, anonymously issued volume of Lyrical Ballads was all he had to show for the years since he had left Cambridge, and yet he was convinced that he was called to be a major poet. Recognition came slowly, but by age 70 he was revered as a cultural icon, the Poet Laureate of England, and the most celebrated native of the Lake Country, where he was visited by royalty and many of the great poets of his day. Based on an intimate knowledge of the poet's manuscripts, on a fresh look at contemporary records, and a careful analysis of the vast amount of research that has appeared in the last two decades, this vividly written volume is the first serious biography of Wordsworth to appear in over twenty-five years. Stephen Gill, a leading authority on Wordsworth's work, reveals that in many ways this giant of English literature lead a heroic life. Persisting against critical condemnation, numbing blows from the death of friends and family, including three of his own children, and his inability to make enough money from his writings to support himself, his dedication to his art did not waver. Moreover, Gill corrects the image of the older Wordsworth as a stodgy betrayer of his radical youth. While his politics certainly did change, and his poetic power waned, from 1799 almost to his death in 1850, Wordsworth single-mindedly shaped his own life in submission to an imaginative possession whose importance he never doubted. Illustrated with over twenty halftones--including portraits, manuscript pages, and places important to Wordsworth and his family--this is an authoritative account of one of literature's great innovators, a writer who permanently enlarged the range of English poetry, both in subject matter and in treatment, and left a body of work that has enjoyed an enormous and lasting popularity. Providing considerable insight into Wordsworth's poetic achievement, Gill illuminates what was most essential to Wordsworth himself: his life as a writer.

British Museum Press 2007, cm.23x29, pp.238 ill.a colori. brossura copertina figurata a colori. This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC. It has become a symbol of China's long and coherent cultural history and, now that China is rapidly developing, it reminds the world of China's future potential. This book unfolds the historical and archaeological context of the Terracotta Warriors, and explores the new research and excavation that has been carried out in the years since the first discovery in 1974. The book is divided into five sections, all written by experts in the field. The first chapter concentrates on the Qin's rise and military conquest and unification of the Warring States. The second chapter explores the Qin Empire, its ideology and practices, and the emperor's achievements and legacy. The third chapter examines imperial tours and mountain inscriptions, and the fourth focuses on the mausoleum itself and the rituals that surrounded it. The fifth and final chapter, the crux of the book, examines the site itself, the Terracotta Army, the various new excavations that have taken place and future plans. Large numbers of the Terracotta Army's men and horses, displayed in military formation, are illustrated with striking photography. Their manufacture is explained and demonstrated with moulds, inscriptions, broken warriors and heads of warriors. Also illustrated and discussed are fascinating new discoveries such as terracotta bureaucrats, acrobats and strong men, life-size bronze birds, hundreds of suits of stone armour and terracotta warriors with coloured faces preserved with new technology.

Catalogo della Mostra, Lucca Fondazione Ragghianti 2005. A cura di Vitorio Fagone. Lucca, Fondazione Ragghianti 2005, cm.27x23, pp.96, illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori. brossura copertina figurata. Testo Italiano e Inglese. Richard Neagle, che da parecchi anni vive a Lucca, è stato uno dei protagonisti della grande stagione internazionale del design tra gli anni '40 e '70, operando tra Philadelphia, New York, Norwalk Con., Millburn N.J. e Milano.La mostra a cura di Vittorio Fagone, direttore della Fondazione Ragghianti, è presentata in catalogo da saggi di Gillo Dorfles, Gloria Bianchino, Aldo Colonetti e Vittorio Fagone che ricostruiscono l'originale itinerario creativo e progettuale di Richard Neagle.L'esposizione, realizzata in collaborazione con il Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell'Università di Parma dove è conservato l'archivio del designer, presenta una ricca serie di prodotti industriali, prototipi, modelli, disegni e progetti.