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Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Italian Non-Fiction Rights List Summer-Fall 2012

NON HO BISOGNO DI STARE TRANQUILLO Errico Malatesta, vita straordinaria del rivoluzionario più temuto da tutti i governi e le questure del regno Eleuthera 2012 176 pp I DON'T NEED TO STAY CALM Errico Malatesta, the extraordinary life of the most feared Italian revolutionary

A biographical narrative in memory of Errico Malatesta 80 years after his death

Rome November 10, 1931. In his apartment in via Andrea Doria in Rome's Trionfale district an old man is under house arrest - an oxygen cylinder next to his bed, two policemen outside his door. As he thinks back to his long and adventurous life of plots, escapes, strikes and insurrections, he has neither nostalgia nor regrets. His memories become a sort of theatre of memory, a political weapon. As a deceiving clock counts away the hours, the man who was once acclaimed as the "Lenin of Italy" looks back at his existence: when he lead his first insurrection attempt in the province of Benevento, his subsequent imprisonment, his years of exile in London, his adventurous activism in Argentina, his secret return to Italy and finally the factories occupation during the Biennio rosso between 1919 and 1920. Sixty years of anarchism, revolts and revolutions intertwine with the history of Italy and and the struggles of labor movement all over the world. Though exausted and haunted by the fascists, the old man looks back at his past and is at peace with himself. He never won, yet he does not feel vanquished nor has he any intention to abandon the fight. He doesn't need to keep calm. Vittorio Giacopini (1961) works at Radio Rai and is a contributor for the political and cultural magazine “Lo Straniero”, directed by Goffredo Fofi. Always combining his scholarship in political science with literature and social commitment, he has published Viaggiatori senza biglietto (L’Ancora, 2000), Una guerra di carta. Il Kosovo e gli intellettuali (Eleuthera, 2000), Scrittori contro la politica (Bollati Boringhieri, 1999). With Goffredo Fofi he has edited Prima e dopo il ’68, a collection of writings from “Quaderni Piacentini”, published by minimum fax.

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Lega, Celestini CONVERSAZIONE SU MATTI COMICI PRECARI ANARCHICI E ALTRE PECORE NERE TALKS ABOUT LUNATICS TEMPORARY WORKERS COMEDIANS ANARCHISTS AND OTHER BLACK SHEEPS

Eleuthèra, forthcoming May 2012

ISBN 978-88-96904-15-2 144 pages. / euro 12,00 with original photos

When I tell something on the stage, I'm not writing a newspaper article. Nor am I telling something that happened to me in a pizzeria. And I'm not even doing a job! Otherwise I may end up to behave like the institutions who take the right to tell the truth, to say once and for all how things are going. The institution that wants to take the absolute between humans seems awful to me. In short, you cannot just tell a story because it is important that people know it: if it is only that, then write an article, write an essay, not a show or a a song ... The subjetcs are not things to talk about, but they're just things, objects, objects that I get on stage. Ascanio Celestini Along the thread of his own experience in a biographical narrative which is full of anecdotes, provocations, idiosyncrasies, loves, jokes, Ascanio Celestini, great storyteller of our time, appears for the first time in the open. This book - the result of his conversations with Alessio Lega, songwriter and out-of-scheme intellectual - it's simply another show by Ascanio. As in all his books and in all his films, Ascanio gives voice to plural, choral narration through a single voice. But this time the staged character is just himself: Celestini Ascanio, the son of Nino and Piera Comin ... food, theater, anthropology, fatherhood, writing, armed struggle, death, cinema, migrants, the asylum, the memory ... Ascanio depicts with extraordinary human and intellectual rigor that made him the most popular comedian of the younger generation, the playwright who is read as a novelist, the most respected TV star who never watches television Ascanio is a medieval preacher without doctrine but with many a knowledge, he is a multiple-voice comedian. His speech hardly starts from an “I”. Ascanio is a Platonic dialogue rather than an essay by Aristotle. He lives before writing and manages to live up written things. His responses are continuously transformed into a staged show where hundreds of real and virtual characters materialize. If in his speech there are more than three sentences, it is already a drama. Alessio Lega Ascanio Celestini (Rome, 1972) is the most pupular voice of narrative theater, which comes from a non-academic training in anthropology on orality, reinterpreted in very original formulas of popular literature and history, offering highly innovative theater shows - based on torrential narrative monologues. In less than twenty years Celestini produced a dozen of shows, written and performed entirely by him, with a huge public success and critical acclaim. Alessio Lega (Lecce, 1972), "poet-singer", stubbornly convinced that changing the world is always possible, even with music, wrote his first songs in 1985.


Franco La Cecla, Piero Zanini

Una morale per la vita di tutti i giorni ovvero l’arte di vivere A moral for Everyday Life or The Art of Living Eleuthera - Forthcoming: Fall 2012 120 pp. / 10,00 euro 978-88-96904-20-6 Collection: caienna In everyday life people must constantly make choices or express opinions, but they are choices and judgments that normally do not have the dramatic pressure of an ultimatum. The rules that individuals are given in everyday relationships, mostly refer to what is called 'common sense', i.e. habits and customs that can sometimes become a moral sense or moral judgment. In this field, anthropology has much to tell, especially if it gets rid of a philosophy marked by a crystallized idea of humanity. With its attention to the differences of customs and the importance of culture as a shared horizon of meaning, anthropology better grasps the richness of different approaches to the everyday life. The anthropological approach makes it possible to see how individuals and communities, including the most remote and conservative tribes, are constantly trying to transform their moral horizons. And even where it is dominated by religious or political "big ethics", there is often a far more flexible ethic of everyday life that takes into account the body's needs and mind's desires. In short, the "everyday"moral looks more like an aesthetic that ethics, or rather an art of living in which the whole is as important as its articulation. Franco La Cecla (Palermo, 1950) thaught Cultural Anthropology at Berkeley, Paris, Venice, Bologna and Milan. He is the author of several essays about everyday culture – his previous books published by Eleuthera are: Mente locale, Non è cosa, L’Ape, Saperci fare e Modi bruschi.

Piero Zanini (Trento, 1966), is researcher at the Laboratoire Architecture/Anthropologie Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Paris–La–Villette. His works include, Il significato del confine, Lo stretto indispensabile (with Franco La Cecla) and a very recent essay on mountain culture -Rilievi alpini.

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An original research that explores for the first time an odd Italian geography by tracking the sites of "builders of dreams and imagination"

Gabriele Mina (ed.)

COSTRUTTORI DI BABELE Sulle tracce di architetture fantastiche e universi irregolari in Italia Elèuthera – forthcoming – November 2011

A retired railroad worker who for fifty years has built on a hill in the Cinque Terre great figures using recycled materials, and created a huge nativity scene illuminated by thousands of bulbs. A builder from Messina, which transformed a shack in a dream home, including mosaics and concrete elephants, then dismantled by strong economic powers of his own town. A cathedral of rock, the result of forty years of research on the bank of the Adige. A farmer and a fourty-five feet Sardinian woman made of plastic and chicken-wire fences. A craftsman of the Marche that created a wooden globe with thirty feet in circumference. These and others are the builders of Babel ... Here, for the first time, there is an attempt to reconstruct a visionary geography: an anarchist geography is always hovering between accumulation and collapse, driven by self-taught artists who have devoted decades of their lives to a total work, although often surrounded by indifference and hostility. The book includes unusual anthropological studies by researchers who describe little-known enterprises to give back their full value, while questioning the fate of these fragile outside-the-rules worlds. With essays by: Cristina Calicelli (irregular art – creative workshops in mental hospitals); Luisa Del Giudice (anthropologist -director of the Italian Oral History Institute at the University of California Los Angeles); Eva Di Stefano (professor of Contemporary History of Art at the University of Palermo and director of Osservatorio Outsider Art); Bruno Montpied (an expert of outside-of-rules sites in France); Daniela Rosi (coordinates the Outsider Art Centre for Accademia di Belle Arti, Verona); Bianca Tosatti (a leading international expert of irregular art); Roberta Trapani (a founding member of Art Brut collective). Gabriele Mina, anthropology researcher and professor, has studied in particular the ritual of Mediterranean tarantism, and the representation of the other.

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Rossella Anitori

Vivere insieme. Dalle comuni agricole e urbane agli ecovillaggi, e oltre Living together. From country and urban communes to eco-villages and beyond DeriveApprodi 2012 160 pages 15,00 euro

The dream of a united and egalitarian community has always crossed the history of mankind. The need to aggregate according to affinity, and invest in a common project of life, to a universe of shared values, has brought more people, in different historical eras, to move away from their social context and culture, from their original community, to found a new one. This book - using the tools of investigation on the ground - describes and analyzes the contemporary comunitary movements, starting from the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the United States, up to include the European experiences. In the following decades, however, the geography of community life changed - the most radical experiences made room for "eco-villages," a new type of experiment also based on a clean break from the traditional patterns and models, but whose main source of inspiration is represented by the codes of ecological culture. In the new settlement areas, communities choose to use these values - conviviality and a subsistence economy, capable of build relationships between individuals who are leading the struggle on the so-called "common goods".

Rossella Anitori is sociologist, anthropologist and journalist. She has directly lived the experience of community life.


Title: Pigs! Subtitle: La crisi spiegata a tutti Author: Paolo Ferrero Series: FuoriFuoco Pages: 180 Price: € 12,00 What bankers and governments will never tell you

DeriveApprodi July 2012

Written by the leader of the hard-line Communist Party, this book challenges the widespread commonplaces on the crisis and explains their groundlessness in a simple and direct way. The aim is to give readers with a middle-level culture the instruments to understand the content of what is said by economy experts who often sound twisted and “esoteric”. The thesis is that a gigantic mystifying action is taking place: this starts from the assumption that masses cannot really understand what are the real reasons of the crisis. The financial crisis is presented daily almost like a religious phenomenon, where “markets”- like emotional and quick-tempered gods – get nervous, frightened, worried, and cause people very serious damage which, neverthless, is constantly justified as “objective”. Thanks to this, the incomprehension of the real functioning of economy gives way to governments to propose solutions which, far from solving the crisis, make it worse and aim to reinforce the power and wellness of the richest classes. The book is not an essay on alternative economy, but starts from statements used by the media every day as “key words” that need explanation and demystification. This central part of the book is linked to two analysis of the real dynamics of the crisis and alternative ways to get out of it. This book is a real handbook for the understanding of a crisis which is worsening life conditions of thousands of men and women.

The author Paolo Ferrero was born in 1960 in Pomaretto (Turin). He has been a factory worker and then “cassaintegrato” (redundancy payment recipient) at Fiat. He chose to be a conscientious objector, he is Waldensian and has been national leader of the Waldensian Evangelical Youth Federation. He has also been Minister in Prodi's government and is leader of the Hard-line Communist Party. With Deriveapprodi he also published “Quel che il futuro dirà di noi” (2010).

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Anna Spinelli

La cantina dei pirati Fernandel 2012 Pagine : 144 Prezzo : 13,00 € ISBN : 978-88-95865-62-1 The way to adventure passes through the throat From beer to tea, from vodka to rum, this recipe book turns several times around the world in pursuit of tastes and aromas of piracy. Hundreds of recipes to prepare cocktails and cook dishes that come from the tradition of filibustering from all around the world: from the classic caviar sandwich washed down with vodka, river fish soup from Louisiana; from fruit salade with rum to beef marinade in beer. Ancient recipes carefully reconstructed and easily achievable even at home, away from the Sargasso Sea. The book comes with color photos and brief introductory texts that offer a simple view of history and geography of drinks and foods. Anna Spinelli, born in 1954, orientalist and writer, graduated in Oriental Languages and Literatures in Venice, and is a specialist in the history of communications. For Fernandel she published: Tra l’inferno e il mare. Breve storia economica e sociale della pirateria (2003); Dal mare di Alboran a Samarcanda. Diario dell'ambasciata castigliana a Tamerlano (1403-1406) (2004); Arte islamica. La misura del metafisico (2008), the novel Rum (2009), set among the pirates of the Caribbean, and the recipe book La cucina dei pirati (2009). She has taught History of Islamic Art at the University of Bologna.


Letizia Nucciotti

L'antichef Dalla tavola alla favola 500 ricette raccontate Stampa alternativa 2012 424 pages 22.00 euro Chefs every day, at breakfast, mid morning, at lunch, in the whole afternoon, in the evening as well as in the middle of the night. On television screens and on all glossy pages. Chef alone, but more often in the company of dwarves and dancers, to tout their recipes, "lobster with truffles" or "snails drowned in bacon." Letizia Nucciotti makes a radical change – from the glossy pages and colourful TV shows she goes back to the simple food, recipes of (real, not invented) grandmothers and aunts and memories of a civilization - the peasant - that many would consider dead and buried and that she recovers and suggests as a companion of daily life, living memory, new resistance. The nearly 500 extraordinarily simple recipes become a popular novel, interspersed as they are from her childhood memories and stories of the strong, proud and imaginative people from Amiata. Letizia Nucciotti is the child of pioneers who - two generations ago - settled in the slopes of Mount Amiata to bring the land into cultivation. Graduated in veterinary medicine, she exercised for a few years but then, with her husband, decided to open the first holiday farm in the area, twenty years ago. Her choise was to work in the kitchen and meticulously, at every working day's end, has written her recipes, alternating them with stories of her family and her people. By the same author: Avanzi Popolo. l'Arte del reciclare tutto quello che avanza in cucina - storia, ricette, consigli


Gianfranco Preverino

IL BARO AL POKER. Le tecniche e gli stratagemmi dei bari in tutte le varianti del poker con un capitolo anche sul gioco on line THE POCKER CHEAT. Cheating techniques and tricks cheaters in all forms of poker with a chapter on online gaming Stampa Alternativa 2012 232 pages 20,00 euro Poker is an ancient game that never goes out of fashion. In recent years its popularity has dramatically grown at a breakneck pace in Italy, involving millions of people of all ages and backgrounds. Changing players, game variants, meeting places, but one single figure remains unchanged in the poker: the cheat. Who are the cheats and how do they work? What is collusion and how you run? How can you mark the cards? You can ogle the cards? How do you mix in a false and around the cut? How do you serve the paper from the bottom of the pack? What cards or pack exchanges? Are there special strategies, even based on math, for each variant? What can happen in Texas Hold'em tournaments? Cheating on the Net How transparent are virtual casinos? These are just some of the questions that are answered in this book, which is the most comprehensive and up to date on the subject. Anyone who at least occasionally plays poker, should know what is explained, as the essential information could save him a lot of money. The merely curious readers, however, will discover a world they did not know, and will appreciate some of the cheaters' psychological subtleties. In any case, the book is intended to move the line of what you knew, or thought to know knew, about the world of cheaters and their tricks. Reviews: www.italiapokerclub.com/notizie-poker-holdem/35556/il-baro-a-poker-il-nuovo-libro-digianfranco-preverino/ www.casinoitalianionline.it/facce-da-gioco/gianfranco-preverino-un-baro-dautore

Gianfranco Preverino is one of the most respected Italian conjurors and a leading world expert on the techniques of cheaters, and is the author ofseveral studies on the subject - his first book Il Re dei Bari has enjoyed great success with readers and critics. Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Via Livorno 515/c, I-20099, Sesto S. Giovanni (Mi), tel. + 39 02 2408204 Viale Vigliani 17, I/20148, Milano (Mi), tel. + 39 02 84962853 [email protected] - www.serv-ed.it

Calciopoli, la vera storia by Giuseppe Narducci with a foreword by Marco Travaglio Alegre 2012 272 pg, 15 euro,

The text describes the investigation that has changed the football system in Italy, going back over the long indictment that the prosecutor Giuseppe Narducci, and his colleague, Stefano Capuano, led to the conclusion of the process of Naples. The thesis, accompanied by multiple evidence supports the existence of a criminal organization that affected the Italian Professional Football League in 2004-2005 and found traces of which already in the 19992000 season. Thesis upheld by the Court of First Instance. Giuseppe Narducci is the prosecutor who has discovered Calciopoli. He was the Security Councillor of the City of Naples, led by Mayor Luigi De Magistris, but is also involved with a network of associations, in the battle for truth and justice for the victims of State terrorism in Argentina.

Marco Travaglio is one of the most authoritative and well-known Italian journalists


Come abbiamo vinto il referendum La storia del referendum sull'acqua vinto dai movimenti by Marco Bersani Foreword by Stefano Rodotà

How we won the referendum The story won the referendum on the water movements Alegre – October 2011 129 pages, € 12

With the referendums on 12 and 13 June 2011, on water, nuclear and lawful impediment, Italian politics has deeply changed. After more than fifteen years, a referendum had a majority of voters and gave expression to the desire for change that often undercurrent animates the Italian society. Marco Bersani, has a degree in philosophy and is director of municipal social services. Founding member of ATTAC Italy and among the spokesmen of the Genoa Social Forum in July 2001, is one of the main leaders of the Italian Forum of movements for public water Stefano Rodotà (Cosenza 1933) is an outstanding Italian jurist.


Capitalismo tossico by Marco Bertorello and Danilo Corradi. Afterword by Richard Bellofiore Alegre – July 2011 192 pages, € 16

The "toxic assets", according to the explosion of the international economic crisis, are just the tip of the iceberg of capitalism illness. Going beyond the prevailing interpretations, which identify factors in superficial and contingent causes of the crisis, the book by Bertorello & Corradi tries to reflect on the structural reasons, with a critical review of many suggested solutions that result uneffective and the role that various movements can play in the development of capitalism in crisis. A book by two young authors, now in its third reprint and has been highly appreciated by the best economists of the Italian left. Marco Bertorello is a trade union leader and the author of Un nuovo movimento operaio" (Alegre, 2004). Danilo Corradi is a researcher in economic history at the Rome University “La Sapienza”. Riccardo Bellofiore teaches Monetary Economics and History of economic thought at the university of Bergamo. His most recent study is Da Marx a Marx? Un bilancio dei marxismi italiani del Novecento (Manifestolibri, 2007)


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Matrimoni e divorzi tra marxismo e femminismo by Cinzia Arruzza

Dangerous Relationships. Marriages and divorces between Marxism and Feminism Alegre - 2010 128 pages, 12 euro Feminism has changed the modern societies allowing women to gain rights and political engagement. Throughout its history it has been met and clashed with the culture of the left starting from Marxism. The book analyzes the marriages and divorces between these two divergent thoughts and responses offered in the course of history by feminist theorists. The author proposes to overcome the old dialectic of "priority", analyzing the transformation of patriarchal logic under capitalism and identifying the interweaving relationships of exploitation, domination and oppression.

Cinzia Arruzza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. She is the editor of Pensare con Marx, ripensare Marx. Teorie per il nostro tempo (2008) and Cosa vogliamo? Vogliamo tutto. Il Sessantotto quarant'anni dopo (2008), and translated some essays by Slavoj Žižek and Daniel Bensaïd.


Scuola Diaz, vergogna di Stato

Il processo alla polizia per l'assalto al G8 di Genova by Checchino Antonini, Francesco Barilli, Dario Rossi Foreword by Massimo Carlotto Alegre 200 pages, 16 euro

Genoa, the night of July 21, 2001. While the trains carried away most of the protesters, dozens of agents were operating a violent irruption into the base of Genoa Social Forum, seriously injuring 93 and arresting 63 people for criminal conspiracy. "The most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country since the Second World War," according to Amnesty International. In this book the meticulous reconstruction of the facts through the indictment of Pm pronounced in the first trial will be concluded with the acquittal of the chain of command and with light sentences for those responsible for this "Mexican butchery". The Authors Checchino Antonini, is a reporter of the daily Liberazione who was correspondent at Genoa G8 in 2001. Francesco Barilli, media activist, coordinates the site www.reti-invisibili.net Dario Rossi, counsel of Genoa Social Forum. Massimo Carlotto, a well-known author of detective's stories.


Pippo Delbono – Giovanni Senzani Sangue Barbés – forthcoming Spring 2013 250 pages, cm 14 x 21 Paperback Retail price: € 18,00 with 100 original photos

Pippo Delbono, director - poet – rebel - homosexual - Buddhist and Giovanni Senzani, a former member of the Brigate Rosse, a life convict who gained his definite release in 2010, met at theatre by chance and since then their visions of the world got intermingled even though they could not be more different from one another. One is a non-violent, supporter of the Buddhist revolution, the other is a Marxist who used to believe in armed revolution. This book is made of words and images and gathers their looks, stories, and exchange of impressions on this world which seems lost, unrecognisable, that seems to have lost its identity and values and is always run by a thin line of blood. But this book tries to look beyond - starting from the pain and blood of the living and dying the authors try to go on relying on the faith in human beings. The book, and the movie based on it that will be presented at Cannes Film Festival, is divided into sections, among which: AT THE THEATRE Two personalities meet: one tries to understand the world through theatre making, the other one tries to cope with his past and with freedom after being released from prison. ON THE MOTORWAY Dialogue on ideologies - Buddha and Che Guevara can have common points. ON THE METRO IN PARIS A world that has changed and is constantly changing, a moving reality we cannot understand any more with conventional knowledge tools. IN FLORENCE AND SAVONA Life and death, pain perception when you live close to death. Poison can turn into medicine. Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Via Livorno 515/c, I-20099, Sesto S. Giovanni (Mi), tel. + 39 02 2408204 Viale Vigliani 17, I/20148, Milano (Mi), tel. + 39 02 84962853 [email protected] - www.serv-ed.it

Roberto Gramiccia Slot Art Machine DeriveApprodi 2012 224 pages Retail price: € 16,00 “All of these writings wants to sound the alarm. If it rings, do not turn it off right away. Otherwise you will fall asleep again.” Alfabeta Art is no more a free expression of a free research. It has turned into a product out of which the system tries to make as much profit as possible. That is how the acquisition of a piece of art by a famous author has become like a stock exchange investment. Collectors become plungers and public is constantly brainwashed to believe in an art which has become cold, repetitive, cynical. Business, technique, communication, marketing have become the new protagonists of 21 st-century art and they are linked by the common sub-culture of neo-liberism. Someone, though, still believes that art is a common good. The author of this book is one of them.

The author Roberto Gramiccia is a writer, journalist and art critic. He lives and works in Rome. He has published “La medicina è malata” (1999), “La regola del disordine” and “Renato Caccioppoli un matematico ribelle” (2004), “La Nuova scuola Romana. I sei artisti di via degli Ausoni” (2005), “Fragili eroi” and “Ritratti d’artista” (2009).
