No. 12

Winter Solstice 2024

2024 / 128 PAGES. Language: English, Italian

The Winter Issue is devoted to the great capital cities of Antiquity and Modernity: New York of the Roaring Twenties, Renaissance Florence (with an eye to the privacy of the home and – with a special thought for Christmas – the moment of childbirth, or Nativity), a manuscript that outlived the destruction of the cities of the Maya, Baroque Palermo, and last but not least, a bit of literary byplay on the municipalities of the age-old continent of Pangaea. In the front of the book, our columns focus on the Italian Renaissance.

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Datebook” – Metamorphosis of a Masterpiece
by Nicolò Rossi with an introduction by Gabriele Finaldi
“Datebook” –Heaven Is a Place on Earth
by Maria Cristina Chiusa with photography by Lucio Rossi

“Auctions” – Titian at a London Bus Stop
by Massimo Navoni

GOTHAM DECO
by Anthony W. Robins
photography by Roberto Bigano
Art Deco brought radical changes to New York, in every manifestation of architecture and design.

LABOR OF LOVE
by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
In Renaissance Florence it was customary to bring refreshments to new mothers on artistically decorated trays.

THE SERPENT AND THE EAGLE BACKLIST
by Giorgio Antei
The Codex Cospi, now at the University of Bologna, is one of only a very few pre-Columbian manuscripts still extant.

DIVINE DIORAMAS
by Giorgio Villani
photography by Massimo Listri
An overview of the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, with a special focus on Serpotta’s stuccowork.

A TALE AS OLD AS TIME
text by Giovanni Mariotti
photography by Leo Torri and Guido Fuà
Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.