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Italian publishing house founded in Florence in 1981, known for poetry, narrative and classics.

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Passigli Editori is an Italian publishing house founded in Florence in 1981 on the initiative of Stefano Passigli, a descendant of David Passigli, one of the most important Florentine publishers of the nineteenth century. In over thirty years of activity it has published about a thousand titles, characterized above all by its offerings in narrative and poetry, along with political essays and other occasional works of great prominence.

History

Passigli Editori was founded in Florence in 1981 on the initiative of Stefano Passigli, a descendant of David Passigli, one of the most important Florentine publishers of the nineteenth century. In over thirty years of activity it has published about a thousand titles, characterized above all by its offerings in narrative and poetry, but not without forays into other territories, in particular political essays — begun with the works of Norberto Bobbio and linked above all to the great tradition of twentieth-century secular thought — and more occasional works of great prominence, such as the very successful Giornale di bordo by Renzo Piano.

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Characterized above all by its offerings in narrative and poetry, with forays into political essays and other occasional works of great prominence.

  • Passigli Narrativa

    A series giving particular attention to European literatures, especially the Spanish vein, with authors such as Antonio Muñoz Molina, Jorge Semprún and Julio Llamazares, and more recently the 'Premi Planeta' Juan José Millás and Fernando Savater, alongside authors such as Henry Miller, Joseph Roth and Andreï Makine, without renouncing thriller writers of great literary quality such as the English authors Philip Kerr, Michael Dibdin, Magdalen Nabb and Reginald Hill, as well as the Frenchman Jean-François Parot.

  • Le Occasioni

    The publishing house's backbone series: agile volumes at competitive prices but of great quality, offering nineteenth- and twentieth-century classics and contemporary authors, in both narrative and poetry: from Javier Marías to Rainer Maria Rilke, from Charles Dickens to Nina Berberova, from Mario Vargas Llosa to Robert Louis Stevenson, from Joseph Roth to Virginia Woolf.

  • Passigli Poesia

    The poetry series, founded by Ma... (source text truncated).

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