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Franco Maria Ricci Editore
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No.4

Winter Solstice 2022

FMR
2022 / 124 PAGES. Language: English, Italian
Issue Four of FMR arrives with the winter solstice and has a cascade of light flaming on the cover: it opens with a piece by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, which brings Dayanita Singh’s photograph to the pages of FMR, then continues with the cycle by Vittorio Zecchin The Thousand and One Nights, from the early twentieth century like The Nibelungs.
A similar dialogue affects two other centuries, the sixteenth and eighteenth, which are shown to the reader under two facets each. Antonio Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected in the sixteenth century at the Escorial, while a manuscript with adventurous events takes us to the eastern lands colonized by Europeans in that century; Andrew Graham-Dixon draws a penetrating portrait of Stubbs as a portraitist of horses in eighteenth-century England, while Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love story in pre-revolutionary France that unfolded through the arts.
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HORS D'ŒUVRE
“Emotions” – The Light and Texture of Memory
by Orhan Pamuk
“Auctions” – A Czarina’s Parting Gift
by Massimo Navoni
“Bibliophilia” – A Total Artwork Writ Small
by Stefano Salis

THE CUPID SELLER
by Benedetta Craveri
reading from Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.

SOMBER AND SOLEMN
by António Filipe Pimentel
reading from Théophile Gautier
photography by Giovanni Ricci-Novara
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.

THE MANILA MANUSCRIPT
by Giorgio Antei
A manuscript with an adventuresome background takes us to Eastern lands colonized by Europeans in the sixteenth century.

PORTRAIT OF A RACEHORSE
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
reading from H.D. Lawrence
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.

SPARKS, RIPPLES, AND MOLTEN GLASS
by Giorgio Villani
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
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