Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Written by Patrioli Alice
Illustrated by Catalli Daniele

  • Picture Book
  • Age group: 14 and up
  • Pages: 296
  • Format: 16,5 x 24 cm
  • Hardcover
  • RP: 25 euros

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Characters blinded by love, anger, or ambition, protagonists of tragic events and epic deeds; heroes transformed into stars, animals turned into stones, and gods incarnate. Ovid’s Metamorphoses stages a grandiose spectacle, where every element can change in an instant: Narcissus who pines away in self-love until he turns into a flower, Daphne transformed into a laurel tree to escape Apollo’s advances, Phaeton’s recklessness, the abduction of Proserpina, the myths of Bacchus and Orpheus… This edition, the result of over two years of work, maximizes the evocative power of the original Latin. The text, translated into prose by Alice Patrioli, retains all the musicality of the original, while Daniele Catalli’s drawings depict the metamorphoses in a continuous frieze, halfway between ancient myth and modern science. Refined paper engineering solutions open and close the volume, skillfully playing with depth and color. Words and images echo each other to offer a wide audience, page after page, moments of authentic poetry.

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