Luca Lattuga - Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani

The volume Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani (Italian Modernist Alphabets) collects over one hundred specimens, systematically organized into categories and subcategories: functional, cyclopean, triennial, synthetic, modulated, decorative, and modular. The book provides a historical contextualization of their origins, offering a clear mapping of typefaces produced in Italy between the 1920s and 1940s. Luca Lattuga's research, realized in this volume, serves as an essential tool for studying a little-known phenomenon, shedding new light on a coherent and recurring style largely overlooked by traditional typographic historiography, emerging from small workshops and minor foundries, the so-called "basso." The volume is complemented by specialist contributions: the curators' testimonies from Veronica Bassini and Luca Lattuga, a historical analysis by Carlo Vinti, and a technical study by Luciano Perondi, type designer and educator, who also provides a dedicated classification and typometry. The work is further enriched with profiles of key figures in the Italian typographic scene of the era, including Guido Modiano, Ruggero Zuliani, Francesco and Antonio Tocchio, with a special contribution by Enrico Tallone.