NATIONAL EDITION OF THE MANUSCRIPTS AND DRAWINGS BY LEONARDO DA VINCI

THE EXTRAORDINARY adventure which has freed man from the 'closed world', projecting him into the incommensurable spaces of the `infinite universe' has certainly had Galileo Galilei among its most outstanding protagonists. The National Edition of his works represents a veritable monument to the genius and to the singular tenacity of the scientist. The 11.500 pages contain not only all that Galileo wrote but also all the documents useful to perfectly understand the often dramatic events of a life entirely devoted to the intellectual and moral progress of humanity. In these works Galileo, one of the classics of Italian literature, offers the reader splendidly written pages.
His crisp, fluent, lively prose, proves to be an invaluable instrument to express the most complex thoughts with extraordinary naturalness, as well as an unequalled masterpiece of scientific language. The National Edition originated from an initiative of the glorious publishing house Barbera and was entrusted to the care of the great Galileo scholar Antonio Favaro. As such, it gathers in orderly arrangement the published and unpublished writings of the scientist from Pisa, including the whole bulk of his correspondence and the participation of supporters and detractors in the debate provoked by the new discoveries in astronomy. It also includes the most accurate and precious reproduction of Galileo's star charts, of the drawings and sketches employed by him in order to clarify graphically his own thought, and finally the biographical accounts by his contemporaries. The volumes are complemented by an extensive critical and philological apparatus.

A PUBLICATION WHICH is bound to make a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Florentine and Italian culture during the fifteenth century. The letters by Lorenzo de' Medici reveal the most significant aspects, often purposely concealed, of the actions of this most prominent figure of the Italian Renaissance. The work has been published under the patronage of the National Institute of Italian Renaissance Studies and in collaboration with the following institutions: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, The Renaissance Society of America, The Warburg Institute at the University of London. Each volume, accompanied by a historical commentary entrusted to worldwide experts, presents the unabridged. texts of Lorenzo's letters addressed to various important personalities of his time. Each letter has an appendix of critical annotations.

THE FIRST scientific catalogue of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, one of the most prestigious museums in the world.
Thanks to this monumental work - with texts in English - art historians will have access to an enourmous body of art, much of it previously unpublished or reproduced only in Russian language journals.
Edited by the most important Russian scholars, the 16 volumes that make up the work present the photographs, in large format and schematically filed, of the five thousand paintings of the huge Western painting section of the Hermitage: nearly eight centuries of pictures dated between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries.

THE CORPUS (the complete work will be 30 volumes) is a basic instrument for art-historical research and offers the most complete scientific information and the richest photographic documentation ever achieved on Florentine painting of the pre-Renaissance period. Each volume consists in a historical and critical study on an artist, or group of artists, with a complete and illustrated catalogue of their works and the documentation referring to them.
Begun by Richard Offner in 1930 and continued by Klara Steinweg, the project was later entrusted by the Fine Arts Institute of New York University to Miklós Boskovits, and all the material put together by Offner was transferred to the History of Art Institute of Florence University.