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Edizioni Helvetia was born in 1972 from an idea of the poet and musician Gianni Spagnol who, after a six-year experience in Zurich as a printer at an important publishing complex, wanted to found in Venice - between Campo San Rocco and Campo San Tomà, not far from the Frari Church - a printing house/publishing house that would promote and stimulate the historical-literary production of the Venetian and Venetian area in detail. Then, with the 90s, the company was moved to the mainland. In 2006, with the acquisition by its granddaughter Daniela Spagnol, the name changed to Helvetia Editrice and the publications continued to explore themes linked to the territory, especially in the "Rosso Veneziano" series - which gathers historical curiosities, with a "popular" and mainly narrative slant - and the "VeneziaeVenetoVivo" series - more linked to pure historical non-fiction and documentation. Enriched with non-fiction and fiction, since 2019 Helvetia has been back in the game with two series that challenge the usual comfort zone by leaving the local territory: "Taccuini d'Autore" (Author's Notebooks), which collects books on the road, texts that travel and travel along the frontier of writing; and "Nuovi Territori" (New Territories), a line created to enhance new authors and unusual topics from experimental themes.
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"The one type of energy underlying all others is intelligence. A people or school of thought that succeeds in managing this enormous power possesses the elementary form that can be used to control any energy. The historical phenomenology of this elementary energy is the leader. The ‘Leader' is the individual-vector of a number of different relations, capable of operating in the manner most effective for the context and gratifying for himself/herself. Those who can serve best are a function of order”. This is not meant to be just another book on leadership in an already-crowded market but a tool that defines new horizons for historical ambition. The Author illustrates a number of elementary rules that can be used in any field of advanced management, be it economic, scientific or politic. …And then he moves on to an added dimension: the wisdom of being through having.
It is a marvellous excursus on the various details that arouse curiosity and pain in every person's solitary life. It is a clinical-existential survey, accomplished with competence by a great expert on the psychic processes of the mind. Ontopsychology is a radical new vision that ranges from science to philosophy to art; most of all, however, it aims for all of these to be healthy and vital. The constant verification of any science answers the following questions: does it produce life? Can it cure? Can it develop? Can it offer metaphysical security to people in progress? This is the only criterion of truth for the human being. Not only does this new frontier of modern psychology possess a scientific methodology that is completely different from the schools that have existed up to go now, but it also contains the process that gives logic and realization to responsible people. This book is aligned with the primary purpose of Ontopsychology: how the Ego's consciousness should be revised, in order for it to perform ontological knowledge, where the Ego's ideas and images are able to give truth and functionality to its own existence. That is, choosing the right, good practice of self-realization. Above all, for one's own health and counsciousness.
Specially dedicated to young people, this book deals with the fundamental aspects that constitute the foundation for healthy individual identity, such as: moral issues, social and personal relations, work, money, functionality within society and attitudes towards sex.
After The Art of Living of the Wise, a book that offers a fresh perspective on the gift and the plan of life, the author explains in this book the practical aspects that contribute to shape the tools that a future leader has to master in order to fulfil his vision. After learning about his/her soul, the young leader must become familiar with, and be able to utilize, the system and the rules of the game. This book is a blueprint for the young person who has decided to be a leader in society.
The dictionary contains the essential definitions of all the operative concepts developed by Ontopsychology. The Author undertakes the task of recuperating or reorganizing the "quantum of meaning and action” that each word or symbol carries. This means regaining the reversibility between signs and reality: the sign leads to reality and reality leads to the sign. While it does not substitute the theoretical understanding of the fundamental texts on Ontopsychology, the dictionary constitutes an overview of the character and the specificity of Ontopsychology.
The author asserts the existence of a logistic computational device that is integrated in our cerebral processes. This device is a monitor that informs the individual's various cognitive processes, thus influencing his/her choices, which are often dysfunctional for his/her very organismic health. His/her self-perception will be inaccurate, in a way that complies precisely with the inserted program. This idea is the key to understanding all subsequent discourse on memetics.
Melholistics is a psycho-bodily instrument that uses music (played by a melholist) and dance (performed by the participants) to recover and strengthen psycho-physical well-being and psycho-emotional functionality. Besides showing a new approach to the specific field of music-therapy, the book provides a revolutionary viewpoint on the knowledge on which all bodily techniques are based – music therapies, dance, aesthetics, sport, etc. Melholistics also led to the practice of melodance, the most joyful way for large groups to dance together.
This book proposes a new scientific viewpoint that goes beyond recent psychiatric, psychological, psychoanalytical and trans-personal studies. It shows how a science makes it possible to diagnose and to cure.
A small, 206-page book meant to serve as a "thesaurus” of elementary logic. It is a concise handbook on the elementary principles of the rational technique in performing applied philosophy. Nowhere in the international bibliography is there to be found such a precise presentation of the elementary principles through which our rationality established its philosophical-scientific-social architectures. It can be viewed as a valuable guide to addressing or regulating one's own critical system or that of others. Outlined in its pages are the principles used or referred to by the best philosophers of every age in formulating and expositing their personal wisdom.
According to Meneghetti, the third millennium must bring the rebirth of art that does not only represent pain and regression, but also a lay and humanistic commitment, based on the conception of the human being as the centre of beauty and vital fulfilment. In the 1970s, Meneghetti founded a new artistic movement on this premise, a movement aimed at the "renaissance" of the human being and called it 'OntoArte'. This book explains how the author formalises the logical process of OntoArte from a philosophical, existential, cultural and sociological point of view, as well as from the practical point of view of artistic education.
A hospitable practice needs hospitable thinking and a way of believing. If, before being a right, existing is a debt that is extinguished only by becoming hospitable people, theology is called to favour coexistence among people by overcoming even its own self-understanding, when this is an obstacle to dialogue, helping to live this great change, and learning to welcome the spiritual riches that are for all. This, to the point of making a public contribution at the service of human and spiritual growth of humanity. A research of great value for a hospitable belief, which gives a theological foundation to a new paradigm of welcome and which opens up concrete perspectives for the indispensable interreligious dialogue.
To meet God means entering into a new relationship that urges us to reconsider the models that have fuelled our believing experience. God is a constant surprise, a surprise that generates a new theological syntax for thinking, praying and narrating the adventure of existence.
The secularization debate went through a big change during the last fifty years. Could this change be described as a paradigm shift? The volume, after an introduction that deeply analyses the “secularization” concept, picks up and discusses in eight chapters several exemplary figures in the recent debate (H. Blumenberg, D. Martin, C. Taylor, H. Joas, T. Asad, M. Gauchet, J. Habermas, G. Vattimo).Thus, the Author gives for the very first time, a systematic reconstruction of the changes and developments in this debate, ending in a real paradigm shift. The conclusion is however hesitant. It is unclear, Costa claims, whether this concept is still helpful to understand what is going on around us now and is in store for us in the near future. Winner of the Book Prize of the European Society for Catholic Theology (category: senior scholar)
Nicola Bergamo's in-depth study proposes an historical excursus on the evolution of relations between the nascent city of Venice and the powerful Byzantine empire, from the first Venetian settlements in the lagoon eaves of the Augustan X Regio Venetia et Histria, through the devastating gothic wars and the Longobard invasion, until the fiscal liberation of 1082 with the chrysobolla granted by the basileus Alessio I Comneno, which greatly increased the commercial fortune of the Venetians within the Mediterranean, consolidating what would become a shining thousand-year-old republic. A change also in the political power that from the exarch, the tribune and the magister militum would pass to the elite families who elected the first duces, and would move its centre of gravity from the primitive capital Civitanova on the mainland to the lagoon nucleus of Rivoalto around which the city would develop, seeking a solution to the continuous struggles between the patriarchates of Grado and Aquileia and the assaults of the Narentan pirates who crossed the ships on their way to Constantinople.The essay is accompanied by an introductory text by PierAlvise Zorzi.
A man stands out on the scene, a free man. He puts forth a new way of relating to the God of Israel. He is the heir. The one who knows how to receive and transmit what he has received by impressing his unique trait on it. Many are fascinated by this figure. Others are scared to the point of precipitating events until the man is killed. However, precisely in death, this figure will release his vision of God in all its strength. A vision that from then on will never cease to attract, to scandalize, and to provoke reality. Today like yesterday. The Christian dogmatics presented through engaging events, with the flavor of a contemporary novel.
An essay to approach the Bible as a source for an authentic spiritual life; a book that gives a biblical backing to the present revival of spirituality, avoiding any deviations or partiality.The author follows here two paths: first, he examines the Old and the New Testaments, focusing especially on the prophets, the psalms, Job, the Song of Songs, and the beatitudes. With the second path, card. Ravasi outlines a concise map of spirituality in the Scriptures, thus composing a unitary message.The final outcome is not only a guide to mysticism, but also an essential synthesis of biblical theology.
Zanmaria Millevoi, the murderous tailor from Contrada di San Mattio; Elena Sciarles, the woman burned in her house in the Chiovere di San Girolamo; Vittoria Basadonna, the noblewoman killed in the Gritti palace in San MattioMoisé; Giovan Battista Bombonati, the hairdresser from Vicenza who thought up the scam of the pot of spirits; Chiara Pentarina, the cook accused of having put poison in her master's broth in San Paterniano; the nameless drowned man fished out on the edge of the Ponte della Panada... are the protagonists of some crime stories that happened in Venice in the second half of the eighteenth century and of which we have news through the documents preserved in the State Archives.Davide Busato, deepening the development of these emblematic cases, reconstructs the working methods of the police who investigated at the time of the Serenissima and the Magistrates who coordinated the investigations, giving ample emphasis to the many curious little details of daily life of the time that emerged from the reading of the interrogations.
With the fall of the Serenissima (1797) and the French domination, later followed by the Austrian one, the most decadent period of its millenary history began for Venice: between the increasingly evident poverty and the upheaval of the sumptuous social customs that had characterised the city, even in the field of prostitution, the new oppressive climate was perceived with an increase in the rules of behaviour and health and hygiene controls, as well as the purely fiscal management of the wolves. Once the era of the cultured courtesans who had fascinated kings and travellers was over, that of the poor, maltreated and sometimes problematic women, often a step away from criminalisation or expulsion from the city, began. Elisabetta Tiveron, through the stripping of archive documentation, the analysis of the distribution of the houses of tolerance and the judicial events of some prostitutes, reconstructs a still little known area of 19th century Venetian history.
In the fifteenth century, Venice was the first Italian centre to produce and disseminate books printed using mobile printing presses throughout Europe, thanks to the resourcefulness of many printer-publishers - such as Giovanni da Spira and Aldo Manuzio - and the prudence of the Veneto Senate, which immediately realised the importance (also commercial) of this new means of disseminating ideas. The Serenissima also played an important role in forming a different way of understanding gastronomy through the publication of cookbooks - some of which were famous, such as those by Cristoforo Messisbugo, Bartolomeo Scappi, Platina and Panunto - which introduced chefs and lovers of good food to the elaborate dishes that were served at the sumptuous court banquets of the major Italian princes: unusual recipes, faithful to the taste of the time, such as salt cod with black butter, capon in French fracassea, dried merlucce and eel cake from Lent... but also practical advice on how to order the dishes with grace and perfection or how to chop the meat by playing acrobatic games to leave the diners amazed.
An essay that re-examines the figures of Francesco il Vecchio and Francesco Novello da Carrara, their vision, the adventure of an entire city in the light of an entirely new interpretative key. For the first time, fourteenth-century Padua is examined within the geostrategy of the time, weighing on the one hand the ambitions and on the other the forces available. The result is surprising, leading to a re-evaluation of the last two Lords of Carrara and their choices: bold, without doubt, but not at all utopian and in many ways inevitable.Intelligent and valiant on a personal level, cultured and cunning, of unquestionable courage even in the face of death, tragic with even epic traits for both, Francesco il Vecchio and Francesco Novello are here saved from the singular oblivion to which they have been condemned. Above all, they are given back the dimension of great statesmen as they were. They had bad luck but, perhaps, for this very reason they are even more worthy of remembrance and reflection.
