226 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
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POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS
IN THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE
In appendix, the catalogue of postmarks

The catalogue, published in a simplified form for an easy reading of the complexity of postmarks, is introduced by an examination about the history of Post in the Republic of Venice, with the purpose of clarifying the complex Venetian postal structure, so much original and important in the European postal development, being Venice one of the most important junctions for the postal connections of Europe.

The work runs through the following path:
From the " cursus publicus" to Medieval couriers, the Venetian trade activity and the transport of messages, transit ways in the Middle Ages, the decree of 6 January 1305, mounted couriers in the Republic of Venice, The Venetian Courier Company, the external postal jus, the Rome travel, the Otranto way, the connection with the island of Malta, the long journey to France, the Milan travel, the courier of Zurich, the agreement with the Fischers of Bern, courier mail in Ferrara, Bologna, Modena and Florence, foreign Post in Venice, mail in Vienna and mail in Poland, mail from Flanders to Brussels, the internal postal jus, the "polizze d'incanto" (policies on contract) of 1747-58, mounted couriers of the Republic of Venice and the rooms of Riva de l'Ogio in Rialto, the general tender of 1761, Girolamo Corticelli, Venetian coins, overseas mail, the fee of 1 soldo per letter and of 3 soldi per ounce, the introduction of postmarks, Post at the fall of the Republic of Venice, catalogue.

422/360/272 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2018/2019
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THE GREAT WAR IN THE CENTENARY
2 VOLUMES + CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS

Work in two volumes plus catalogue, which illustrates all the Italian Military in the first world war.
After an exhausting, rigorous but narrative and very illustrated postal-historical foreword, the work catalogues all the offices of Military. It proposes for each the timeline of Italy's Unification, the postal-historical one, the life-size replica of all the postmarks known and one selection of documents, with high quality images. The first volume is about all the offices but the Division ones, dealt with in the second volume. The third volume, in smaller format, valuates all the postmark with a well-established point range.

360 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - format cm 16,5x24 - printed 2021
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ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS
II edition

Second edition of the catalogue that refers to the monumental 2014-2016 work on AOI history, mail and philately, still complete. The volume of evaluations is updated: in the first edition there were only the office names, making immediate reference to the two volumes for their chronology, in this second one instead their chronology is included. To follow, the known postmarks with their evaluations.

The postmarks are always inserted with the same criterion: first the oval ones used as cancellers in the first days of the offices, then the round, the line and the other types; last the Residences postmarks.
On the other hand, the oval marks of exemption from postal taxes of the State administrations are not taken into consideration: in fact, they are supplied to them, not to post offices.
The graphics were also catalogued and reproduced "from life", with the postage stamp portion that they cancelled. The graphics in the recommendation labels have also been reproduced.

Evaluations are expressed in points. Two scales of points are proposed: one applicable only to classical Eritrea and the 1895-1896 campaign, the other to all the rest. Two chapters dedicated to Eritrea: first and second period. For convenience, the office chronology is all in the second period.
Only the stamps used as cancellers are quoted; accessory stamps are only listed.

Also available in the LUXURY version.

360 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - format A4 - printed 2021
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ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS
II EDITION - LUXURY

Second edition of the catalogue that refers to the monumental 2014-2016 work on AOI history, mail and philately, still complete. The volume of evaluations is updated: in the first edition there were only the office names, making immediate reference to the two volumes for their chronology, in this second one instead their chronology is included. To follow, the known postmarks with their evaluations.

The postmarks are always inserted with the same criterion: first the oval ones used as cancellers in the first days of the offices, then the round, the line and the other types; last the Residences postmarks.
On the other hand, the oval marks of exemption from postal taxes of the State administrations are not taken into consideration: in fact, they are supplied to them, not to post offices.
The graphics were also catalogued and reproduced "from life", with the postage stamp portion that they cancelled. The graphics in the recommendation labels have also been reproduced.

Evaluations are expressed in points. Two scales of points are proposed: one applicable only to classical Eritrea and the 1895-1896 campaign, the other to all the rest. Two chapters dedicated to Eritrea: first and second period. For convenience, the office chronology is all in the second period.
Only the stamps used as cancellers are quoted; accessory stamps are only listed.

472 + 592/184 + 360 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound/softbound - printed 2014 + 2016 + 2021
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ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
OFFER 4 BOOKS TOGETHER
Volume I + II and CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS ed. I + II

The text represents a complete work about the Italian presence in East Africa from the point of view of post and of philately. It is conceived in two separate volumes with, enclosed in the second volume, the first edition of postmarks catalogue, and now the second edition of the catalogue.

Accompanied by a rich iconographical background (postal documents, maps, views, people), every volume presents, besides a historical-descriptive part: offices of military and civil mail (included some unrealised), rates, postmark (all numbered, divided into chapters and in alphabetical order), postage stamps, postcards, postal traffic, forwarding routes.

In the second volume, at work conclusion, a rich annotated bibliography, an abstract in English and a complete analytical index of the two volumes.

The first volume is about pre-imperial Italian East Africa; nevertheless, the chapters about Eritrea and Somalia are developed up to 1941.
The second volume deals with the War of Ethiopia, the Italian Empire, the second war and the immediate postwar period in those territories.

Also available with the second edition of the catalogue in the LUXURY version.

472 + 592/184 + 360 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound/softbound - printed 2014 + 2016 + 2021
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Italian text

ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
OFFER 4 BOOKS TOGETHER - LUXURY EDITION
Volume I + II and CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS ed. I + II

The text represents a complete work about the Italian presence in East Africa from the point of view of post and of philately. It is conceived in two separate volumes with, enclosed in the second volume, the first edition of postmarks catalogue, and now the second edition of the catalogue.

Accompanied by a rich iconographical background (postal documents, maps, views, people), every volume presents, besides a historical-descriptive part: offices of military and civil mail (included some unrealised), rates, postmark (all numbered, divided into chapters and in alphabetical order), postage stamps, postcards, postal traffic, forwarding routes.

In the second volume, at work conclusion, a rich annotated bibliography, an abstract in English and a complete analytical index of the two volumes.

The first volume is about pre-imperial Italian East Africa; nevertheless, the chapters about Eritrea and Somalia are developed up to 1941.
The second volume deals with the War of Ethiopia, the Italian Empire, the second war and the immediate postwar period in those territories.

68 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2020
series "Quaderno AISP" n.1
Italian text

THE COLLECTING OFFICES IN THE PROVINCE OF BELLUNO
from 1867 to 1917

The purpose of this contribution is to provide an updated and as complete as possible overview of all the collecting offices in the province of Belluno, starting from when, after a long Austrian period, in 1866 it became Italian, until the beginning of November 1917, because during the retreat following Caporetto defeat, all post offices and collecting offices in the province were closed.

In this study the author, using a lot of material also from other collectors and many archival data, did not limit himself to classifying the specific italics, octagonal, squared postmarks, but he went further by also taking into consideration those with large circle, squared circle and guller type.

He did not deal only with postmarks: he went deeper by explaining the functioning of these collecting offices and their evolution.

The table presented is very interesting and, above all, also applicable to many other Italian provinces and situations.
No points or rarity valuations have been assigned.

348 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

DIRECTORY OF AGENCIES AND P.T. DELIVERIES

Postal deliveries, classified as Agencies until 1952, or rather the offices in certain locations given with a license to private individuals upon their request, have always constituted an intriguing chapter in postal history and in particular in marcophilia.

The work is structured by regions in geographical order (from North to South and from West to East), starting with the regional capital city and then moving on to the other provinces in alphabetical order.
Each chapter opens with a list of known services, a table listing the various salient dates of its history. In addition to postal / administrative data and to reproductions of the various postmarks of each office, it includes a historical description of the licensed office (institution, company or hotel), with extensive iconographic documentation.

The work is completed by summary indexes and tables: agencies not considered; agencies in geographical, alphabetical order, by opening date, by type of licensed office.

For marcophiles the attraction of their postmarks is undoubted, both because they are largely difficult to find, and because, although they are ordinary marks, they have in themselves a character of specialty and "out of order", but the volume is interesting and pleasant even outside the philatelic world, as it represents a mirror of almost a century of Italian life, in its economic, political and customs aspects.

217 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2022
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LIBYA
History, Post, Philately - vol.1

The work, which for the authors closes a truly broad human and research path, intends to systematize knowledge, propose it in a modern way and create a work that intends to be definitive, at least for many years: the framework that is proposed is well defined. in all its main lines and its interpretative aspects.

Historical text followed by the catalogue of the offices, with their postage stamps and examples of use and the catalogue with the summary and evaluations of the registered stamps.
The main novelty of this volume is the breadth of the context: it is not considered a subject limited in time, but a wide Mediterranean region, which has had various political (and therefore postal) regimes, from the beginning until almost contemporaneity. A broad overview of synthesis that has its roots in classical antiquity and reaches up to the last, difficult years of today's Libya.

206 pp. - colour and b/w illustrations - hardbound - printed 2022
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1770-1850 TRENTO REGION AND SOUTH TYROL
POSTMARKS CATALOGUE

This catalogue of the postmarks of the Trento and South Tyrol regions is aimed at illustrating, in a concise form, the political and postal histories of the said regions whose territories are nowadays included in the autonomous region by the same name with special statute.

Besides the Catalogue itself with a detailed listing of the postmarks found on mail processed by 52 post offices, this volume proposes the masterful study on postal history of the late August Zoppelli, an excursus on the Menz family and its formidable archive from which a lot of letters showing postmarks, many of them rare or very rare, come.
Another appealing chapter is the one delving into the mail from the Napoleonic military campaigns that afflicted the area from 1796 to 1813. Indeed a turbulent period with a very complex postal history.

There is much more, for example a very informative chapter on postal history, rates and postmarks, postal routes, the various phases of history, the detailed listing of handwritten place of provenance information on the address side of the outgoing mail, the free-frank handstamps accompanied by a detailed and informative listing in alphabetical order, registered mail and its auxiliary postmarks used during the various administrations also with a listing in alphabetical order, and also an exhaustive listing of the various postmarks utilizing a rarity scale from very rare to very common.

A very useful bibliography concludes the impressive volume.

Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2022
882 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2022
French and English text

This book traces the military career of the young Bonaparte from the siege of Toulon, where he received his first command to face the enemy, to the fall of the Emperor Napoleon at Waterloo, including Bonaparte successively as General Commander of various armies and then as First Consul.

Each campaign, each battle, is described with an unusual care for accuracy. Through many examples of letters, from Napoleon's correspondence in which he gives precise orders for the day-to-day running of his Empire, to those sent by soldiers in the field, the author lets us see the often very raw reality of what a battle was like in the Napoleonic Era.
All the armies in which he served or he commanded have been put into their historical context, illustrated with documents and letters from soldiers, with their contents, often full of historical information or anecdotes, which help us to understand the life of soldiers, their hopes and their fears.

However, it is not a mere work on history: it is a landmark study of all the postmarks used during the different campaigns over the years of the Consulat and the Empire. Using many tables, all the postmarks are listed, each with it's period of use.
In addition, some themes closely linked to the armies are covered such as prisoners of war, the conquered departments resulting from military victories, letters of "cantinières" as well as other topics.

Through this captivating story we see how a single man can, in a relatively short period in history, lead an entire population to the glory of ruling a large part of Europe, subsequently dragging it to it downfall.