GEOMETRIES OF THE SPIRIT
Authors: Nicola Albanesi, Cecilia Clio Borgoni, Paolo Chiapparoli, Francesco Rapaccioli, Martina Subacchi, Saul Tambini.
Publishing house Libreria Intern. Romagnosi
Size 14.5 x 20.5 cm
Pages 164
flexible cover
Year of edition 2022
ISBN: 978888 620735
Cover price euro 12
In editorial continuity with the previous volumes “Keep the sign. Thinking of God ”, year 2020 and 2021“ With closed eyes. Fragments of the Invisible ”, both of the
the publishing house Libreria Internazionale Romagnosi, here is this GEOMETRIE DELLO SPIRITO, which arises from the desire of the authors to share some reflections on the sphere of the human and that of the divine, using the ancient support of paper and book-form, in the awareness that this way of writing, and therefore of reading, retains something unique.
The book proposes an in-depth path that winds between Christian thought and faith; a free thinking about oneself, about the world, and also about God, who lives the free and sometimes even risky attitude to communicate the flavor of a life that speaks to us.
The title and the cover image – a portion of the floor of the crypt of the Basilica of San Colombano di Bobbio – are deliberately intertwined with the intention of questioning a figure of the divine who has always seduced the hearts and minds of men, that is, that of the Spirit.
The portion of the floor is made up of multicolored hexagonal tiles decorated with geometric and floral figures, similar but not the same, thus giving life to a balanced, albeit elaborate, architectural composition. This artifact incorporates Celtic-Irish figures and themes in honor of the origins of the holy Abbot Colombano. A Presence that through multiple geometries has drawn the religious experience of entire peoples, generating names, shapes and figures.
The intent of this small text – writes the curator Paolo Chiapparoli in the introductory pages – is not, however, to speak of that sacred geometry that presides over the architectural typologies of the liturgical space and that the different religious traditions have elaborated to map the coordinates of the possible meeting. between the prayerful and the divine, but that of recounting how the Spirit gave form to man and all his undertakings, sometimes showing himself as such and sometimes acting in a mysterious and decree way, as if it were only human action.
THE “PROJECT” THE COURT AND THE CLOISTER. It is supported by people for the most part from Piacenza; they change from book to book, with some exceptions. Paolo Chiapparoli is the curator-coordinator of a group of friends or acquaintances who practice thought, spirituality, art, philosophy, literature. Some have academic qualifications, others simple lovers of thought, but always interesting and prepared who have agreed to tell them “references”, each with their own sensitivity, with their own writing method. “Even with the intensity of those used to venturing into thoughts, everyone expressed their reflections without worrying about making a scientific paper or structuring an articulated thought”. This small editorial project, the curator Paolo Chiapparoli points out, takes the name of “The Court and the Cloister”: two dimensions of the human, the external, open one, that is the square and the internal, intimate one, that is the room. An architecture of space that becomes an architecture of the soul.