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Social discriminationMarch 2022What Were You Wearing?
Words in Criminal Trials for Gender-based Violence
by Iacopo Benevieri
Words are the mirror of a society, especially when they describe relationships between men and women. This also happens in courtrooms. What stereotypes are hidden behind certain terms? What patriarchal views are enclosed in seemingly polite questions? Can silence be an instrument of communicative domination? The book, which investigates some mechanisms of linguistic power and is aimed at anyone who employs words in institutional and professional contexts, highlights the importance and the need of a conscious use of language, so that words are an instrument of rights.
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September 2019My Father is a Deep Sea Diver
by Elisa Sabatinelli, Iacopo Bruno
At the center of the story is the Marina, the epicenter of the divers’ explorations and the family that founded it. Ettore is the youngest in the family. His dream of becoming a diver, like his father and grandfather, is cruelly destroyed by Amedeo Limonta, an unscrupulous businessman, who builds a fashionable seaside resort right next to the Marina, sending it bankrupt. Ettore’s family is forced to move to the city, far from the sea. But what Amedeo Limonta really wants to do is to capture the Pearl, the soul of the sea, and then sell it for a fortune. Ettore is the one who finds it, though, on his eighth birthday. But the Pearl belongs to the sea, which is where it must return. So begins Ettore’s mission to put all the elements back into their natural order. Illustrated by Iacopo Bruno
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Historical fictionIl sorriso di Caterina, la madre di Leonardo
by Carlo Vecce
This is the most astounding book you will ever read, in more ways than one. Presented to the international press at Giunti Editore’s Villa La Loggia on March 14, 2023, Carlo Vecce has written the untold story of the mother of one of the greatest minds of all time: Leonardo da Vinci. This novel is founded on the author’s scientific discoveries, based on documents that show us the true origin of the genius, Leonardo. But it is much more than that. Defined as a ‘docu-fiction’ by Paolo Galluzzi, a Leonardo expert and the former director of the Galileo Museum in Florence, “it gives identities, faces, and passion to characters and elements that are absent from scholarly accounts ... the research is sound.” In his desire to tell the symbolically important story of one woman, Professor Vecce has single-handedly reconfigured our definition of humanity. He has “shown Leonardo to be a universal man who doesn’t belong to one civilization, one country,” (The New York Times, 14/3/23) At the same time, he has clearly shown us what makes us human, and what will allow the spirit of humanity to flourish for centuries to come: our regard for all people, all women, all children, in their desire to live.
