Presentation of the book by our member, the professor of medieval history at the University of Barcelona and president of the Accademia dei Dogliosi. The book entitled: Un monastero nella valle irpina ovvero quando comandavano le monache Follows a splendid exhibition on the dance macabre Our members participated in the event: Adelino Di Marino (Bibliophiles de Paris and Biblioteca Suore Montis Virginis and Accademia dei Dogliosi) Annachiara Di Salvio (Bibliophiles de Paris and London) Fiorentino Vecchiarelli (Bibliophiles of Florence and Accademia dei Dogliosi) Ilde Rampino (Bibliophiles of Florence and Accademia dei Dogliosi) Bruno De Francesco (Bibliophiles de Paris and president of the Altavilla youth forum)

From the website: https://www.meer.com/it/64987-il-mito-di-narciso Language: Italian https://www.meer.com/it/64987-il-mito-di-narciso Guarda stupito se stesso, se ne resta immobile e fisso sul suo volto, come una statua scolpita nel marmo pario. Steso a terra contempla due stelle, i suoi occhi, e i capelli degni di Bacco e di Apollo […] il collo d’avorio e la bellezza del viso e il roseo colore misto al suo candore. Questo è il ritratto ovidiano che ha eternato la figura di Narciso, mitico giovinetto della Beozia, la cui storia, già nota in epoca ellenistica, ci è pervenuta per iscritto tramite le fonti di età imperiale in diverse varianti, tra cui quelle di Conone e di Pausania, poi riprese da altri autori come Luciano e Plotino. Nelle Metamorfosisi narra che questo ragazzo di indescrivibile bellezza, macchiatosi di superbia, la greca Hýbris, per aver sempre respinto tutti i suoi pretendenti, venne punito dalla dea Ramnusia che lo condannò ad innamorarsi della sua immagine riflessa in

A book created by Andityas Matos, doctor at the Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil and at the Universidad de Coimbra in Portugal. Professor at the Faculty of Derecho de la UFMG. Member of the Bibliophiles. . A very interesting book and accompanied by a beautiful repertoire of important images taken from alchemical books. . In 1666, chemistry obtained the status of a science. Its inclusion in the Académie des sciences forces it, however, to get rid of those parts considered “inconvenient”: chemists had to abjure from chrysopoeia “the transmutation of metals into gold” and from the search for the philosopher’s stone. These were relegated to the margins of alchemy, which became an independent field. However, although peripheral, alchemy has always been a site of resistance. Far from being a simple “grandmother” of chemistry, her vision constituted an alternative to the dominant logics of the Western rationalist tradition. For alchemy, the world is an organic whole, total but n

Head of the book promotion and culture department of the Bibliophiles section of Paris. Graduated in French Literature and Law, having also studied History and Art History, Nadège Castel Fillion is a reader-proofreader via her site A Demi-mot.fr. Poet, she is also the author of a children’s novel and literary analyses. She has also published, under the pseudonym Diane Addams, spiritual and esoteric books. Collector of ancient and modern books, she has a particular affection for the XIXth century. His book “EN RÊVANT SOUS UNE LUNE DE CIMENT” participated in the latest edition of the Book Fair online.