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Francesco Danesi della Sala

Nature ribelli

Journey through climate change at the mouth of the Po River

In the 1980s, a small fishing village at the mouth of the Po River was the scene of an unprecedented revolution. The Goro lagoon, in the Ferrara Delta, was transformed into one of the world's largest sites for farming Philippine clams. It was the beginning of a gold rush that would radically change the landscape and local traditions. A…

Shrouq Aila

Hanno ucciso habibi

What does it mean to struggle every day to survive in the wasteland that Gaza has become? Shrouq Aila, an award-winning journalist, mother, and widow, tells us through her story, that of a woman trying to raise a daughter alone, in the grip of famine and under the fire of incessant Israeli bombardment. With the urgency of a desperate appeal and the disarming strength of someone who maintains her l…

AA. VV.

Emanuele Coccia

Villa Foscari La Malcontenta

The second volume in the series of Ecocritical Guides to Wetlands, this book takes us on a journey of discovery to Villa Foscari, known as La Malcontenta, one of the most famous masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, designed by Andrea Palladio. Located “above the Brenta,” on the border between lagoon and mainland, between fresh and salt water, the villa embodies a metamorphosis of the landscape…

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La mia Venezia africana tra vita e arte

E poi ci si ritrova alla fine. Il viaggio è concluso. A questo punto, si ha voglia di guardare indietro e dare un senso a tutto questo.

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Libri da leggere a luglio 2025

Un’indagine folgorante sull’impatto delle immagini nere nella cultura digitale. Dalle cartoline dei linciaggi a Rodney King, Russell ci invita a decolonizzare il web e ripensare viralità e autorialità per spezzare il loop dello sfruttamento visivo dei corpi neri.

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Mude

The mude were the commercial expeditions of Venetian merchants in the Late Middle Ages, which touched lands near and far, connecting them to the Venetian Republic.

Likewise, the Mude books trace unprecedented relationships between Venice and other places, real or imaginary, opening the horizon to new geographies and parallel histories.

Barene

Salt marshes (Barene) are strips of semi-submerged land that characterize lagoon landscapes.

Barene's books bring to light the inseparable link between ecosystems and their human and non-human inhabitants from the perspective of Human Environmental Sciences.

Fondamenta

Fondamenta's books tell the story of Venice starting from its margins and from those lives that historiography has too often forgotten.

A counter-narration of the city's past that illuminates its present, deconstructing the easy mask of myth and restoring awareness of how the margin is actually the founding stone of urban events.

Afterwords

Afterwords is the series dedicated to the most innovative voices of Africa and Afro-descendence, unique in the Italian publishing panorama.

It moves between creative residencies in the Lagoon, new essayistic perspectives and hybrid narratives that intertwine with the city and the imagination of Venice. Its goal is to trigger a cultural exchange with the African literary world to bring out non-Western perspectives on the most important contemporary social and environmental issues.
The series of books is edited by Maaza Mengiste.

Fuori Collana
Ecocritical Guides

The new series of Ecocritical Guides explores key sites of Venetian and Italian culture from an entirely new perspective—one that goes beyond traditional interpretations to focus on cultural, ecological, environmental, and gender-related themes that often remain overlooked in the reading of artworks. Compiled by artists, writers, and scholars from around the world, the Ecocritical Guides are an essential tool for reinterpreting cultural heritage and updating the lenses through which it is understood. Edited by Shaul Bassi and Cristina Baldacci.

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