Marsilio Ficino
Leo S. Olschki

Iørn Korzen
Museum Tusculanum

Cornelius Tacitus
Einaudi

È questo il secondo dei due volumi in cui la Biblioteca della Pléiade raccoglie l'opera omnia di Tacito. Con testo a fronte e note puntuali, un commento che ricostruisce le vicende narrate, le vicissitudini dei manoscritti e la fortuna di Tacito nei secoli, sono presentati gli "Annali", in cui lo storico latino ripercorre il periodo fra la morte di Augusto e la caduta di Nerone.

Bob Haak
Harry N. Abrams

Hailed as a landmark book when it was first published in 1984, "The Golden Age" by Bob Haak remains the seminal book on the subject of Dutch painting in the seventeenth century. Justifiably know as the Golden Age, this was one of the most intensely creative periods of artistic activity the world has ever known. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Ruisdael, and Jan Steen are a few of the more famous great Dutch painters of this era. Yet also painting in Holland at that time were hundreds of artists of merit who specialized in both traditional subjects and those invented to satisfy the demands of the newly liberated Dutch Republic.

The scope of this volume is extraordinary and remains unrivaled by any subsequent publication. This book includes more than 400 Dutch artists, some with one representative work, some with many. Through these extraordinary works, the rich fabric of seventeenth-century Dutch society comes alive: scenes and portraits of men and women in public office; paired husband-and-wife portraits; domestic scenes; outdoor life on Holland's canals, boating in summer and skating in winter; scenes of grand new buildings and of old churches newly whitewashed inside; the look of the land and the seacoast in all weathers. And in sharper focus are the marvelous still-life paintings, from tiny works showing a pit of bread and an oyster to rich displays of game, fruits, and wine; still lifes of fish and of insects; grand arrangements of flowers, often featuring priceless tulips--all of these imbued with the sense of the passing of time, of fading or evanescent beauty. Dutch painting, so full of life and vitality, has haunting overtones of moral and psychological subtlety which readily find echoes in our own world.

Bob Haak's text is a guide through all the Dutch cities and towns where painters were at work. His familiarity with the historical circumstances of their art is remarkably complete, and he understands how Dutch art forged its own pictorial style as the nation forged its independence; how, in their freedom from the patronage of the Catholic Church, Dutch patrons and artists found a new wealth of subjects to enjoy and explore, subjects close to their life yet enriched by their sense of life's pleasures and obligations. And how they invented a painting style to express this, using light, color, and movement with greater freedom than had ever been done before. The text is lavishly illustrated by 1,117 reproductions from the Golden Age, including 74 in full color. For the first time justice is done to the charms and depths of this art, so approachable yet so quietly revolutionary. A bibliography and an index complete this book, designed for all who care for Holland and for the never-ending beauties of its art.

Vintage Italian bar cabinet from the 20th century, featuring a counter with a brass frame, a wooden body with mahogany and exotic wood veneer, open storage compartments with shelves at the back and decorative red Formica panels on the front with brass trim, a red back-treated glass top, and a crystal backsplash. Display cabinet with a brass frame, glass shelf, and wooden cabinet with mahogany and exotic wood veneer, comprising an open compartment and a display cabinet with a mirrored interior and sliding glass doors.

Mantua, Early 18th Century

Walnut and burr walnut veneered drop-leaf chest, front with three leaf-spring drawers. Drop-leaf chest conceals a five-drawer internal cabinet, open central compartment with secret compartments. Poplar interior and back, bracket feet, burnished metal escutcheons and handles. Mantua, early 18th century.

Oil on canvas. This is a copy of the painting of the same name by Giulio Cesare Ferrari (1818-1899), created in 1863 and purchased a few years later by the Pinacoteca dell'Accademia in Bologna. The painting depicts a scene from Victor Hugo's novel "Notre-Dame de Paris": Esmeralda, a young gypsy who enchants with her beauty and dancing, is persecuted by the archdeacon Frollo because of his obsession and locked in the tower of the Parisian cathedral, where she is helped, however, by the hunchbacked bell-ringer Quasimodo. In the scene, the young woman is huddled in the narrow, dark cell accompanied by her inseparable goat. The work belongs to the historical-literary painting movement that developed in the 19th century alongside Romanticism and Realism, and is characterized by the depiction of scenes from history and literature, often with celebratory and commemorative intent. The copy proposed here, of good workmanship and datable shortly after the original, is presented in a mid-20th century style frame, contemporary with the restoration and relining of the work.

Set of vintage Italian-made chairs from the 1960s with teak wood frames, newly reupholstered seats with foam padding and white/grey fabric upholstery. Restored in our workshop.

142 x 106 In

Lilian rug in cotton and wool; large knot. Hand made.

Vintage Italian-made dining table from the 1900s with sinuous beech wood legs and a rectangular back-treated glass top.

Tomoki Izumi
Panini Comics - Planet Manga

136 x 104 In

Aubusson rug in cotton and wool, large knot, hand-made.

Vintage chest of drawers with six drawers, handles and legs with brass finials, mahogany veneer. Restored in our workshop.

Franco Briatico
Il Mulino

All'indomani della Resistenza Franco Briatico è stretto collaboratore di Mattei e da quella posizione privilegiata vede evolvere il progetto di ricerca che, applicato alla sfruttamento, raffinazione e distribuzione del petrolio e gas naturale, vuole gettare le basi della politica energetica e industriale nel nostro paese. Eni, Agip, Enichen, Snam, Edison, Montedison: nelle vicende della grande impresa quella che si delinea è una storia di rapporti, di intrecci, di collusione, di interessi tra iniziative imprenditoriali, mondo politico, capitale pubblico e capitale privato, una storia fatta anche di momenti torbidi, operazioni spregiudicate, crisi drammatiche, in cui si dà appuntamento tutta la nomenklatura italiana dal dopoguerra ad oggi.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Group of five chairs from the early 19th century. Sabre legs at the back and curved at the front, backrest with the typical enveloping shape called "gondola" with carved open folder. Made of walnut with removable seat.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Cabinet with shaped and molded top from which two projecting columns start which separate the central door of the front from the two side windows. The entire structure is veneered in walnut root and decorated with ebonized wood, inlays of various essences and a bronze frame. Italy, late 19th century

AA.VV.
Guida Editori - Fondazione Amelio

Northern Europe, Mid XX Century

Outdoor sundial in wrought iron with brass plate with Roman numeral hours.

Italy, XX Century

Pair of wrought iron lanterns, enameled and burnished. Five lights, four-arch structure suspended by chains. Italy, 20th century.

Giuseppe Bergamini
Federico Motta Editore

Vintage plant stand with wheels, chromed metal frame and smoked glass sides.

Belt dating back to the 70s and 80s in red leather with original metal buckle depicting an apple.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Vintage chandelier with chromed metal structure, diffusers made of worked Murano glass, concentric and conical in shape.