December 2024
Presentation Saturday, December 14th, 7 pm,
Thinking like an Island, with Camilla Marrese and Gabriele Chiapparini, published by Overlapse
We will finally have Camilla and Gabriel in the bookstore to present this book that we fell in love with at first sight!
The Island is distant in the Mediterranean sea, and 675 metres in height. It’s inhabited by an uncertain number of 30 to 60 people, year-round, with no hospital, no cars, no priests or police. Some islanders never consider leaving while others tried, only to return to their lives in the remote bubble
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December 2024
On the road Sunday, december 15th, 11.30 am-20 pm,
PAPER MARKET
Our heartfelt Christmas market is at MONK again this year, and we look forward to welcoming you with a selection of Christmas gifts tailored to the occasion, in the morning with Chiara and in the afternoon with Luna.
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December 2024
Sunday, December 15th, 6 pm,
Black Basket Castel Volturno, with Simone Carolei, published by ContrastoBooks
On Sunday afternoon we celebrate together the release of Simone Carolei's first book, a book that is important from so many perspectives, reminding us of the importance of community building and the value of sports in changing the rules of the game, especially when the game is the right of citizenship.
It’s four o’ clock in the afternoon. Destiny, Karim and King are walking along a crumbling pavement on the Via Domitian
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October 2024
Sunday December 1st, 6 pm,
La Teoria del vuoto, with Alessandro Imbriaco and Fabio Severo
We begin this month with a presentation that will also be a small party here in Leporello 🎉🎊🎉
La Teoria del Vuoto (The Void Theory) originates from a photograph depicting a scene of everyday life in Buccinasco, a suburb near Milan. Years ago, in that quiet rural setting, some weapons were found, hidden or abandoned by unknown people. This discovery gave rise to a web of episodes, places, and people that spread across It
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October 2024
Wednesday, November 27th, 7 pm,
Miguel Leache, Miss diciembre 1854
On 8 December 1854, Pius IX declared the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. After 1500 years, the Ineffabilis Deus papal bull put an end to theological disputes on whether the mother of God had been conceived without sin. The reasons may have been political: the Pope had just returned to the Vatican after his exile during the Second Roman Republic. He had lost earthly power and was seeking a way to reconcile the faithful. However, paradoxically, th
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October 2024
Presentation Monday, November 25th, 7 pm,
Giuliana Prucca, Devenir minéral and Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement
At Leporello, for the first time in Rome, Giuliana Prucca will present her book Devenir minéral, published by L'éditeur du dimanche in Paris. This essay establishes critical and poetic connections among texts and works by various artists, writers, and thinkers—from Antonin Artaud to Jean Dubuffet, Jan Fabre, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Gutaï, Joë Bousquet, Francis Ponge, Gaston Bachelard, Gilles Deleuze, and Aby Warburg—through the prism of the mineral element, encompassing stone, s
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