I am amici of the book – Wikipedia

The Association One hundred friends of the book It is a partnership of lovers of the beautiful book whose purpose is to create an illustrated book of high quality every year both in terms of the press and artistic.
The books are reserved for members who, based on the statute, cannot be more than 100.

The association was born in Florence in 1939 from the idea of ​​three amateurs of the beautiful book, Ugo Ojetti, Tammaro de Marinis, Gilberta Serlupi Crescenzi, whose intent was to raise the quality of the printing of the Italian book, very decayed, after the splendor reached in past centuries.
A bibliophile for each of the large Italian cities assumed the task of making the initiative known and collecting inscriptions by proposing, despite the other spirit, the phenomenon of book subscriptions in use by the eighteenth century.
Assocates of this kind already existed in Europe, in Italy it was the first and made use of the books of the fundamental contribution of Giovanni Mardersteig for 37 years.
The first volume published in 120 specimens under the guidance of this great printer was “L’aminta” of the Tasso with seven etchings by Francesco Chiappelli.
The first three presidents of the association were renowned writers: Ugo Ojetti from 1939 to 1946, Giulio Caprin from 1947 to 1952 and Bino Sanminiathelli from 1953 to 1976.
In 1979 the company’s headquarters was transferred from Florence to Milan under the presidency of Alberto Falck, who led the association for 27 years until his sudden disappearance in 2003. This tragic event led the members to adapt the statute, in the continuity of the purposes original, to the changed corporate and management needs. The new Board of Directors elected President Paolo Tirelli, Gaetano Fermani in 2012 was successful; Since May 2013, the association has chaired by Laura Persico Tirelli.
Over the years, the hundred friends of the book have published 47 volumes of high literary and artistic content, printed by the best printers. All editions include texts of well -known writers and poets, many of whom are unpublished such as the poems of Mario Luzi, Eugenio de Signoribus, Andrea Zanzotto, Maria Luisa Spaziani. They collaborated in the realization of the volumes famous Italian and foreign artists, by Pietro Annigoni, Fausto Melotti, Renato Guttuso, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mimmo Paladino, Walter Valentini, Emilio Isgrò, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Tullio Danrica, Joe Tilson, just to name a few.
In essence, the works of the hundred friends of the book offer a cross -section of Italian art of the last seventy years.

• Torquato Tasso, Francesco Chiappelli – Aminta (1939)
• Francesco Redi, Pietro Annigoni – Bacchus in Tuscany and Arianna Inferma (1940)
• Marco Aurelio Antonino, Bruno Croatto – Ricordi (1941)
• Aldo Palazzeschi, Gianni Vagnetti – Prints of the nineteenth century (1942)
• Pietro pancreasi, Bruno Bramanti – L’esopo modern (1947)
• Ugo Ojetti, Pietro Annigoni – La Mora (1941)
• Apuleius, Aldo Salvadori – The fairy tale of love and psyche translated again (1951)
• Dario Viterbo – The book of Tobia (1952)
• Guido Gozzano, Renato Cenni – lyrics chosen by “I Interviews” (1954)
• Angelo Poliziano, Renato Guttuso – from the conspiracy of the Pazzi (1955)
• Nicolò Machiavelli, Amerigo Bartoli – La Mandragola (1957)
• Giovanni Pascoli, Arnoldo Ciarrocchi – Three Latin poems (1959)
• Dario Cecchi – Seven Montalesi Novelle (1960)
• Domenico Di Giovanni known as Burchiello, Mino Maccari – Sonetti (1962)
• Italo Svevo, Giacomo Porzano – Senilility (1964)
• Italo Zetti – Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo (1965)
• Leonardo Sinisgalli, Orfeo Tamburi – CineRaccio (1966)
• Guido Nobili, Alberto Manfredi – distant memories (1969)
• Dear Sermini, Carlo Mattioli – Five Novelle (1970)
• Leon Battista Alberti, Pietro Annigoni – Love and moral rhymes (1971)
• Gabriele D’Annunzio, Riccardo Tommasi – lyrics taken from Alcione (1974)
• Vittorio Sereni, Ruggero Savinio – Variable star (1979)
• Bonvesis by the edge of (orno Ghittiani la Riva – De Cruce (1982)
• Leonardo Sciascia, Bruno Caruso – The sea color of wine (1984)
• Carlo Emilio Gadda, Mino Maccari – A “concert” by one hundred and twenty professors (1985)
• William Butler Yeats, Fausto Melotti – Poems (1986)
• Riccardo Bacchelli, Luciano Minguzzi – The Water’s Water Brigand (1988)
• Giovanni Battista della Porta, Fabrizio Clerici – of man’s physiognomy (1990)
• Giovanni Rajberti, Isa Pizzoni – On the cat (1991)
• Publio Cornelio Tacito, Floriano Bodini – Germany (1993)
• Carlo Emilio Gadda, Franco Rognoni – Lightning on 220 (1994)
• Gabriele D’Annunzio, Ercole and Luca Pignatelli – from “The cities of silence” (1995)
• Il Cantico dei Cantici, Aldo Salvadori – Il Cantico dei Cantici (1996)
• Umberto Saba, Sandro Martini – Prelude and songs (1999)
• Clemente Rebora, Enrico Della Torre – Canti Anonimi (2000)
• Camillo Sbarbaro, Giulia Napoleone – Reclaims (2001)
• Emilio Villa, Arnaldo Pomodoro – Seven fragments from the art of primordial man (2004)
• Lucio Piccolo, Mimmo Paladino – Canti Barocchi (2005)
• Mario Luzi, Walter Valentini – accidental showcase (2005)
• Emilio Isgrò – The Five Isgrò (2006)
• Eugenio de Signoribus, Nino Ricci – The Water Domestic (2007)
• Jacopo Ricciardi, Pietro Cascella – Scheggellalba (2008)
• Yves Bonnefoy, Gérard Titus -Carmel – Two scenes (2009)
• Carlo Gozzi, Tullio dangers – The simple in search of spirit (2010)
• Andrea Zanzotto, Joe Tilson – The real theme (2011)
• Marialuisa Spaziani, Gabriella Benedini – The sea does not rest (2012)

The gifts of the presidents to the shareholders:

• Massimo Bontempelli Scarlatti
• Domenico Cavalca, Paolo Stoppa – Sant’Abraam Romito and his nephew Maria
• Ugo Ojetti, Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi – Italo Balbo
• Yves Bonnefoy – To better understand two scenes

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