Franco Maria Ricci Editore

Franco Maria Ricci

Who was Franco Maria Ricci? He was perhaps, first and foremost, an avid collector, whose passion succeeded in bringing together the most diverse eras and locations. What the publisher tells of himself – his birth in Parma, his love for Mannerism, his encounter with Borges and his enjoyment of culture, the remembrance of Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit Father, and the undertaking of the reprint of the Encyclopédie de Diderot et D’Alembert – clearly expresses to what extent biography and culture are a living memory here...