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This catalogue brings together the book editions and art print editions made for MAVIDA (1989-2017), which brought together different activities related to the book, original printing, paper restoration and the sale of modern original prints and illustrated books with original works, and those subsequently published under the brand name of the Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi, which continues the editorial work.

Furthermore, the Laboratorio has always printed and prints engravings, folders and books on behalf of other clients or publishers, all works collected here; in particular, for the editions of the Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, the etchings by Renato Guttuso for The years of lost images by Valerio Zurlini and the burin Greeting card  for 1923 by Gino Severini for the catalogue of the complete graphic work edited by Francesco Meloni; for the All'Insegna del Lanzello editions, the engravings by Alberto Manfredi for Lo zoppino; among the most important works, he has entirely created the edition edited by the Hundred Friends of the Book of the Song of Songs, illustrated with lithographs by Aldo Salvadori and the series of Almanacco di Italia Nostra from 1989 to 2015; he won the Gianfranco Fedrigoni National Prize for Pregio Publishing 2004 with the Le Storie series and the LiberBook Prize 2015 with Lazzaro Spallanzani, Tra Scilla e Cariddi, engravings by Vincenzo Piazza.

 

There are numerous artists with whom the Laboratorio has curated various editions of engravings; in addition to the aforementioned, we also mention Sigfrido Bartolini, Renzo Biasion, Gianni Cacciarini, Giancarlo Cazzaniga, Rodolfo Ceccotti, Arnoldo Ciarrocchi, Mario Calandri, Italo Cremona, Fiorella Diamantini, Gino Forti, Stefano Grasselli, Mino Maccari, Paolo Manaresi, Pompilio Mandelli, Vairo Mongatti, Franco Rognoni, Duilio Rossoni, Aligi Sassu, Alfredo Sosabravo; to these must be added the editions of biffate tables by Luigi Bartolini and Antonio Ligabue made by the owners for documentation. There are also many other artists who have collaborated and collaborate with the Laboratory for the editions of books and prints, including many young artists, as can be seen in the following catalogue.









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Roberto Roversi
The cyclists
Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi, June 2023, leporello in 16°, pp. 8, Magister lead text, Hahnemuhle paper and Yearling Arjomari cardboard for the cover, three color etchings by Maurizia Ragni, printed and signed by the artist. Edition of 27 numbered copies. A graceful leporello for the delicate engravings by Maurizia Ragni that accompany the happy unpublished poem by Roberto Roversi.
Luca Pasqualini
Now
Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi Editions, March 2023, color woodcut, Magnani paper cm. 37x52, edition of 10 numbered and signed copies. Even the artists raise their voices, so Luca Pasqualini.
Luca Pasqualini
Decennial
Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi Editions, March 2023, color woodcut, Magnani paper cm. 37x52, edition of 10 numbered and signed copies. Witty commemoration of Luca Pasqualini for his ten years of woodcuts.
Pisapia Antonio
The recipe of the poet Su Shi. Poetry and food in ancient China.

Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi, January 2023, 8th (cm. 20x29), pp. 36, Italian and English text in Garamond lead, old handmade Fabriano paper for inside and cover, 12 color linocuts by Bernadette Kam Fu Lee, five of which on double page and one more on the cover. Translations into English and into and from Chinese are by the author and artist. This edition, defined as "Western", repeats the "Oriental" one in different formats and materials (see previous entry). Edition of 30 copies numbered and signed on the colophon by the author and artist.

Pisapia Antonio
The recipe of the poet Su Shi. Poetry and food in the ancient China.

Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi Edizioni, 2022, 4th large ad album (34.5x46.5 cm), pp. 26, Italian and English text in Garamond lead, Xuan paper in mulberry fiber, 12 color linocuts by Bernadette Kam Fu Lee, five of which are full page and one more on the cover. Translations into English and into and from Chinese are by the author and artist. The story is a fine digression / invention around the poem by Su Shi Ode to the heron, printed in the counter-pages, to which the real recipe of Dong Po pork (second name of Su Shi) and Chinese bread has been added, to make homage to that culture of food that is capable of always uniting all peoples. The edition is 30 copies numbered and signed on the colophon by the author and artist and is defined as "oriental".

https://www.bernadettekamfulee.it/

Rossi Lia
St. Valentine's confetti

Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi, 2022, 8°, pp. 30, Garaldus lead text, paper Edizioni Granosa of Ventura paper mill, paperback and cover covered in parchment paper, edition of 25 copies plus V proofs, all signed in the colophon by the author. After Heartbreak and Noi angeli, the third volume of an interesting poetic trilogy, this one focuses on imagined/concrete love talismans.

Roversi Roberto
Eight gliòmmeri

Reggio Emilia, 2022, in large quarter (37,5x28 cm) with free sheets, Magnani veiled paper of old and good production, cover in Alcantara paper by Sicars of Catania, pp. 42 in free sheets, with Roversi's eight unpublished gliòmmeri accompanied by as many original graphic works, signed in pencil, by some of the most important Italian engraving artists of today (Gianni Verna, Raffaello Margheri, Laura Stor, Maurizio Boiani, Ezio Camorani, Nella Piantà, Stefano Grasselli, Isabella Branella, plus on the cover the etching, also signed, by Agim Sako). The "illustrations" form a sort of specimen of the main graphic techniques, from the most ancient (xylography) to the most modern (lithography). The texts in turn are a very interesting compendium of Roversi's poetics. They are preceded by a writing by Marzio Dall'Acqua and Marco Fiori and an explanatory note by Antonio Bagnoli. The edition is 20 copies numbered in Arabic numerals ad personam, XX copies in Roman numerals, ten in letters from A to L. The texts, in Garamond, Augustea, Egizio and Carla font were printed, like the engravings, on the hand presses of the Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi of Reggio Emilia, which also took care of the graphic design and binding.

https://www.laboratoriofratellimanfredi.it/antologia/15/Otto+gli%C3%B2mmeri

https://youtu.be/gC2fg8R9bs0

Rossi Lia
We angels

Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi, 2021, 8°, pp. 30, Garaldus lead text, paper Edizioni Granosa of Ventura paper mill, paperback and cover covered in parchment paper, edition of 25 copies plus V proofs, all signed in the colophon by the author. Another collection of unpublished poems, highly imaginative, in a volume that pairs with Crepacuore, by the same poetess.

Coluccino Osvaldo
Manto

Reggio Emilia, Roberto Rodriguez Editore, 2021, 4° large, pp. 70, Garamond lead text, Magnani Velata and Silky paper for the cover, loose sheets in a canvas editorial box. The kaleidoscopic and intriguing poems of Osvaldo Coluccino, musician and poet, are accompanied by five graphic works, plus the cover one, full page and the last one signed, specially created by Franco Guerzoni according to his own unmistakable stylistic features. The volume closes with two explanatory poetic texts written by the artists. Edition of 30 numbered copies, plus X containing two graphic works by Guerzoni on loose sheets, one of which is not present in the volume, plus 1 proof, all signed in the colophon by the authors.

https://www.laboratoriofratellimanfredi.it/content/antologia.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31y09F2RZQo
Branella Isabella
Amor mi mosse

Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio F.lli Manfredi Editions, June 2021, drypoint cm. 49,5x34, Sicars Graphia paper cm. 50x70, edition of 12 Arabs plus 2 proofs and 2 artist proofs. Wonderful engraving by the excellent Abruzzo artist, honorable mention at the Celommi Award 2020-2021 having as its theme the famous quote from Dante.


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