344 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - large format - ed. 2004
Italian text

THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Told by postcards

The volume illustrates, through postcards of the time, the First World War, paying particular attention to the Alps front which belonged, to 4 November 1918, to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and was part of Tyrol.
The events are told on the basis of newspapers, magazines, diaries and books of the time, and original documents never produced before.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
Italian text
VALUATIONS IN IT LIRE

INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.22 - FRONTIER GUARDS - FRONTIER ARMY
Postcards

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
Italian text
VALUATIONS IN IT LIRE

INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.16 - CARABINIERI ABROAD
Postcards

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
Italian text
VALUATIONS IN IT LIRE

INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.7 - WAR IN SPAIN
Postcards

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

156 pp. - 232 colour ill. - format cm 24x21 - softbound - ed. 2011
series "History through documents"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

ITALY! WAKE UP!
A "BOOT" FULL OF POSTCARDS
all the symbols of our Homeland

PREFACE by Maurizio Pagliano

In a roundup of 232 pieces, from end-nineteenth century to present days, postcards reveal themselves as spy of Italian people collective imagination. An imagination that drove them to nationalistic fanaticisms, but sometimes to critical and not without irony visions too.

Like any other State, Italy is symbolized by its own flag but its three colours are enough too. A Monarchy until 1946, Italy was symbolized by the King and, perhaps, even just by some of the House of Savoy's attributes. Sole Country with an immediately recognizable shape, Italy coincides with it but the "boot" is often represented upside down. The Mother Country, like any allegoric device of academic matrix, shows Herself in ancient clothes that, depending on the circumstances, match Her austere image with others of mythological matrix, gathered from the Roman world or associated to the Founding Fathers of Risorgimento. It was during interventionism that Italy took young, attractive and even audacious likeness and motions. During the twenty years of Fascism, Italy coincided with the symbol of lictor's fasces and this was often replaced by the Duce's image.

In conclusion, Italy is so varied that suspect has arisen that its symbolic value is uncertain. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Mother Country was mocked, in recent years, together with all the other symbologies swinging between rhetoric and kitsch.

664 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
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CARABINIERI AMONG PEOPLE
bicentenary 1814-2014
new contributions

with the contribution by Cap. Michele Miulli

International Award of Art and Culture "Salvo D'Acquisto" 2014
Cultural Association "Italia in Arte"
Brindisi - Lecce 28 June 2014

The author, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of Carabinieri Corps (1814-2014), has published a volume narrating its history by means of documents and papers of archival interest: around 220 illustrations of period postcards of the Corps, over 70 unreleased iconographies of front correspondence and of prisoners of World War I and II.

These images document the birth of the Corps and its path in the history of Italy, the wars of Independence, the Expedition of the Thousand, the Taking of Rome, the birth of Legions, Carabinieri on the territories (Crimea, Eritrea, Somalia, Crete, Libya, Albania, Aegean Islands, Ethiopia, Ogaden, Horn of Africa), WW I and II; here included are the iconographies and the unreleased statements that characterize the history of military, whose essential part is constituted by the correspondence from Nazi-Fascist and Allied prison camps. Moreover there are numerous protagonist heroes, from Salvo D'Acquisto to the martyrs of Fiesole and of the Fosse Ardeatine to partisan carabinieri in Cephalonia and Corfu. Last but not least is the Corps in the Navy, in the Air Force and on the territory, up to the present days.

208 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2019
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THE POSTCARDS OF THE GREAT WAR

An interesting compendium that traces the years of the Great War with an instrument that was enormously used at the time such as the postcard.

Every single work has been scientifically treated, revealing its main characteristics and, where possible, the author reports on the artists and the artist-soldiers who made them.

In addition, written testimonies, short ungrammatical texts, small masterpieces of writing and phrases escaped from censorship.