Illustrated Book
Il Bestiario di Pietra
Hardcover · Italian edition · Publication Forthcoming

Before encyclopedias, before taxonomy, before science decided what exists and what does not — there was a book. In which every animal was a metaphor, every stone an allegory, every flower a promise of paradise or a warning. A system for reading the world. All of nature was a secret language: whoever can read it inhabits a world in which every metaphor is a door.

In the Middle Ages, that book was carved into the stones of churches. Those who could not read words could read stones.

Every figure was a double sign — animal and allegory, body and soul, sin and redemption. The stone bestiary admonished, guided, saved. The fantastic creatures held the secret of everything.