Creation of a World Centre of Communication.

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Paris, Philippe Renouard, 1913. In-f° max. (47x34) di pp. (8)+XV+102, con grande vignetta al frontespizio e alla dedicatoria, numerosissime illustrazioni nel testo incise in eliografia e XXIV tav. fuori testo (alcune ripiegate su doppio e triplo foglio). Bella legatura tela editoriale verde con grande titolo, e riquadri in oro ai piatti e al dorso. Esemplare con barbe, su carta pesante, ma con fioriture diffuse nel testo. (8371) Edizione inglese di questa rara e lussuosa monografia (ne esiste anche una traduzione francese), impressa a spese degli autori e mai posta in commercio, dedicata ad un progetto di "capitale mondiale" da creare ex-novo in una zona da definirsi; il progetto, ideato dal danese H. C. Andersen, all'epoca domiciliato in Roma, e dagli architetti francesi Ernest e Jean Hébrard, ispirato da ideali di cooperazione internazionale tragicamente naufragati con lo scoppio della Grande Guerra, non ebbe praticamente diffusione alcuna e l'opera ebbe una ristrettissima circolazione tra gli amici dell'autore. Nelle idee di Andersen una delle possibili localizzazioni di questa "capitale mondiale" avrebbe potuto essere la vasta area tra Roma e il litorale di Ostia, come dichiarò Andersen il 5 giugno 1913, dopo aver incontrato il Re: "la città potrebbe anche sorgere ad Ostia, potrebbe congiungere Ostia, il centro della civiltà latina, al mare" (cfr. P. Orlando, Alla conquista del mare di Roma, pp. 339-40). Nel 1918 gli autori ripresero l'idea, riproponendo un "Centro Mondiale di Comunicazione" con nuove edizioni in inglese e in francese dell'opera (stampate a Roma), accentuandone gli aspetti di utopia politica, ispirandosi ai principi internazionalisti del presidente Wilson, ma la loro proposta non ottenne maggiore successo. Questo progetto utopico è concepito nella sua interezza: vi sono definiti i piani urbanistici, disegnate le strade, i palazzi, i parchi, i giardini; vi sono descritte ed illustrate persino le statue ed i monumenti. La parte architettonica è curata da Ernest e Jean Hebrard con la collaborazione di numerosi assistenti, mentre la parte storica è di George Leroux.Di particolare bellezza il panorama generale di questa "città ideale" e le altre grandi tavole fuori testo, impresse lussuosamente in fotoincisione.Hendrik Christian Andersen (Bergen, 1883 - Roma, 1942), sebbene nato in Norvegia, visse quasi tutta la sua vita a Roma, dove morì, a soli 59 anni. Com'è noto non riusci mai a realizzare il progetto di quell'immensa "Città mondiale della Pace", che vive ormai soltanto nei disegni visionari ma dettagliatissimi del grande volume in-f° qui descritto, Creation of a World Center of Communication, scritto assieme agli architetti francesi Ernest e Jean Hebrand, impresso a Parigi nel 1913 a spese degli autori, e mai posto in commercio.…

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Creation of a World Centre of Communication.
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ANDERSEN Hendrik Christian & HEBRARD Ernest M.

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Alessandro Soave established the Soave Antiquarian Bookshop in 1937 at the close of a long and diversified experience which began in the office of his well-known Turin stock-broker father. Then, after the Great War, in which he served as the commanding officer of mountain artillery battery, he was a barrister at the Turin Bar. In 1921, Alessandro left Italy and, thanks to the considerable independent means provided by his family, he embarked on a successful artistic career as a sculptor; first, in the “roaring twenties”, with a studio, in Berlin, and in the Thirties he moved on to Montparnasse. These periods were interspersed with spells in Turin for exhibitions with his friends and famous Italian artists Menzio and Spazzapan. Alessandro Soave passed away in 1957. The bookshop closed its activity for a while but was reopened by his wife, Elena Médail, a literature teacher in Turin Lyceums. Elena was the daughter of Turin Prefect Enrico Médail, the nephew of Giuseppe Francesco Médail, the man who conceived the Frejus Railway Tunnel under the French-Italian Alps. Emilio Soave, Alessandro’s son, while still an arts undergraduate at Turin University, began helping his mother in the bookshop. Under the guiding hand of mentor Marino Parenti, the well-known Florentine bibliophile and bibliographer, Emilio started the publication of a series of small but refined catalogues of antiquarian books, which, over the years, began appearing more regularly. Emilio’s copious and well-documented dissertation entitled The Typographic Industry in Piedmont from the beginning of the 18th century to King Charles Albert’s Statute was later published in a large volume by Gribaudi. This dissertation was then followed by a series of essays and research papers in the field of contemporary history and a spell as a lecturer at Turin University. In the early-1970s Emilio’s elder brother joined the bookshop. Vittorio had worked in the engineering industry for a number of local companies. Vittorio then moved on to London, where he married and worked as a civil servant. He then moved to Paris to work for a French bank. On his return to Italy he worked as a translator for the leading publishers, Einaudi, and also taught civil law and economics in an Accountancy School. With Vittorio’s arrival, the bookshop slowly changed from a part-time hobby of the founder into a solid commercial concern, which enjoyed a good reputation for the reliability and scholarship of its owners and the publication of a series of catalogues in the fields of economics and social sciences, mathematics and physics, and on such monographic works as The History of the Waldenses, Piedmont between the French Revolution and Napoleonic Rule, The 1821 Piedmontese Revolution, The Jacobite Period in the Kingdom of Sardinia, De Occulta Philosophia, De Societate Jesu, and so on. Vittorio Soave was appointed for two four-year terms as President of ALAI (the Italian Booksellers’ Association) which he boosted by providing it with a proper administrative frame and furthering its national and international visibility through the 1986 ILAB Congress and Book Fair in Venice. Whilst Vittorio was in office, ALAI joined the first Turin Salone del Libro (Book Fair) and in 1995 the first Antiquarian Book Fair in Florence. Vittorio Soave also served on the Board of the ILAB Committee from 1988 to 1992. …

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