Senza Testa. Breve storia della decapitazione in rime e disegni (Headless. A brief history of beheading in rhymes and drawings) deals with the death penalty by beheading, one of the most symbolic of capital punishments, through the stories of 25 historical executed. Each of these characters is portrayed from the rhymes of Lucio Villani and the duotone drawings by Daniele Catalli. By superimposing the red filter attached to the book, with a very quick gesture the head disappears and the protagonist is beheaded, as quickly as at the time the sentence was carried out.

Red Star Press, Roma 2022
Text: Lucio Villani

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Fujisan, the sacred mountain of Japan, recounts the life of Hokusai, this drawing madman, who represented it dozens of times, from near and far, in The Wave, at dawn or at dusk, under the snow or storm.

Editions Amaterra, Lyon 2022
Text: Eva Bensard

2023, WINNER Prix ATOUTLIRE
2022, WINNER Prix Amerigo Vespucci

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Tunnel books, also known as peepshow or peephole, widely published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are books composed of a series of cut-outs bound together by means of two strips of folded paper.

A hole in the front page makes visible the succession of pages up to the bottom one, allowing to give the scenes a three-dimensional effect and thus obtaining a narrative effect that develops into a one single image.

In  harmony with the need to illustrate a text conceived for the theater,  is the choice of a book form with strong ties to the theater set-ups.

The front hole allows you to see the scenes-frames in this silent book: not all characters immediately offer themselves to the view; concealed by the wings, they are revealed as a result of movements exercised on the sheets by the reader-spectator.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
22 x 15,5 cm, screenprint and letterpress. Handbound.
Limited edition of 300, signed and numbered.
DFRG PRESS, London 2019

Acquired by:
Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library (Oslo-Norway)
Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA, US)
Lafayette College (UK)
State Library of New South Wales (AU)

Romeo + Juliet 
22 x 15,5 cm, screenprint and letterpress. Handbound.
Limited edition of 300, signed and numbered.
DFRG PRESS, London 2019

Acquired by:
State Library of New South Wales (AU )

Awards and Exhibitions:
- Shortlisted WIA 2020

Bibliography:
- World Illustration Award 2020, The AOI & DI, London 2020 

Based on the  stories of deported people into the nazi concentration camps in World War II, the book  is based on the concept of absence.
People, depicted in everyday moments, leave a trace of their presence that becomes an absence once it has been dug into the paper. Thus every shadow is transformed into a void that is both a mirror and a container for all other absences. The choice to use laser cutting and therefore to burn the paper is a reference to the burning of books on one side and the crematoria on the other.

DFRG Press, London 2018
Text: Laura Anfuso

Shortlisted MCBA prize

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LA BATAILLE DES GRENOUILLES ET DES SOURIS

Freely taken from the Homerish Batracomiomachia, the book tells of a dispute between a mouse and a frog over access to a pond. The frog then offers the mouse to visit his kingdom, climbing on his back. Unfortunately, a snake rises, leading to the drowning of the mouse. This episode is the pretext for a bloody war between the two communities.

“The very elaborate game of page cuts gives the scenes a cinematic depth of field and gives great strength to this effective denunciation of the absurdity of war.” 
(BNF - The Review of Children's Books)