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It’s Fine Press Friday! 

Novelle Cinque: Tales from the Veneto, translated and edited from the original Italian by George H. Bumgardner, is illustrated with four watercolor facsimiles from the 16th century manuscript and constitutes a major part of the “Refugio de miseri” (the refuge from misery), containing five short stories that detail the misery surrounding young lovers in Venice. Our edition was translated into English for the first time from the manuscript residing in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and was designed by Martino Mardersteig, who also oversaw the letterpress printing in the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. Mardersteig was notably connected to the Officina Bodoni, a private press in Verona specializing in hand press to create beautiful and incredibly high quality books, through his father Giovanni Mardersteig. The elder Giovanni designed the Dante, Griffo, and Zeno typefaces based on the popular Old Humanist types of European printing in the early 20th century. This edition was printed in Centaur typeface designed by Bruce Rogers, another Old-style typeface similar to typefaces designed by Mardersteig. It was printed on Pescia paper made specifically for this edition by Cartiere Magnani and bound by Legatoria Recalcati in Milan. There were 1950 copies published by Imprint Society Publishing in Barre, Massachusetts in 1974. 

Introduzione La floricoltura pesciatina rappresenta una delle eccellenze storiche e produttive della Toscana. Situata nel cuore della Valdinievole, nel territorio del comune di Pescia, questa tradizione affonda le proprie radici nell’Ottocento e si è sviluppata nel corso del Novecento fino a diventare un punto di riferimento nazionale e internazionale per la produzione di fiori e piante…