GIROLOMONI 1971-2021. CUSTODI DELLA TERRA
[GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH]

edited by Cristina Ortolani. Introduction by Leonardo Becchetti

(Isola del Piano, Fondazione Girolomoni Editore, 2022)

A great work of memory. If commitment means always starting from the roots, this historiographical work proves it. The experience of this hill is the precious proof of recovery in an area. An example of a new economy of which we want to preserve, as good monks, the steps, choices, people, facts, ideas and hopes.

ADONAI, TI ASPETTO SULLA COLLINA
[ADONAI, I WILL WAIT FOR YOU ON THE HILL]

edited by Dario Benetti

(Quaderni Valtellinesi – Fondazione Girolomoni Edizioni, 2021)

This is an anthology of Gino’s writings (from 1978 until his death) filled with witness accounts, unpublished letters and archival documents. A book that tells about his character, his religiousness, his commitment to the environment and to the return of life in the mountains and hills, his continuous search for the truth, and the friends and intellectuals who talked with him. A mystery often cannot be resolved, but sometimes one can come close, and the words make an aura transpire that can make reality and our daily lives more meaningful.

LO STRANO ODORE DELLA VITA
[THE STRANGE SCENT OF LIFE]

by Mattia Tonelli

(Isola del Piano, Fondazione Girolomoni Editore, 2018)

Ancient Egyptians, engines, cosmetics, medicine, the boundary between life and death, war buildings, monkeys, the Milky Way, dinosaurs, nests, greenhouse gases, and traditional cattle rearing. What do these very different subjects have all in common?
Mattia Tonellli’s book “Lo strano odore della vita” focuses on the fascinating yet often despised world of dung and skuas, offering answers to this and other questions.

LA TERRA È LA MIA PREGHIERA
[THE LAND IS MY PRAYER]

by Massimo Orlandi. Introduction by Vandana Shiva

(EMI, 2018)

When Gino Girolomoni died, a biography was written telling the story and emotions of this incredible human adventure made of people and values, first and foremost Gino Girolomoni and Tullia Romani. A utopia that became reality.

TULLIA DOVE SEI?
[TULLIA, WHERE ARE YOU?]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Florence, LEF, 2013)

This book published after Gino Girolomoni’s death details Gino’s relationship with his wife Tullia and his search for the God of Hope who promised Resurrection.

IL DUCA DI VENTURA. IL RITORNO DI FEDERICO
[THE ADVENTUROUS DUKE. FEDERICO’S RETURN]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Fondazione Alce Nero, 2010)

This book reports the script, here published also in German, performed by Giorgio Albertazzi, in the role of Duke Federico, in Urbino in August 1982. A still current book tracing back the life of a man who knew how to look at the world from afar and not through a keyhole, as Sergio Quinzio points out in the introduction.

MACCHERONI ACQUA E FARINA
[WATER AND FLOUR MACCHERONI PASTA]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Milan, Jaca Book, 2007)

Simple food is the topic of the author’s seventh book. Eating well is possible with today’s organic food and the wisdom of tradition.

UN AVVENIRE DI TERRA, APPUNTI PER UN’ECONOMIA DELICATA
[A FUTURE MADE OF LAND. NOTES FOR A SENSITIVE ECONOMY]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Florence, LEF, 2005)

ALCE NERO GRIDA. L’AGRICOLTURA BIOLOGICA, UNA SFIDA CULTURALE
[THE ALCE NERO SCREAM. ORGANIC FARMING: A CULTURAL CHALLENGE]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Urbino, Macro Edizioni, 2002)

Our society seems not to have taken organic farming seriously, which remains a limited experience. Girolomoni points out this gap through his experience. The book was translated in Japanese.

SULLE TRACCE DEI NOSTRI PADRI
[ON THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FOREFATHERS]

by Various Authors

(Urbino, Fondazione Alce Nero, 2000)

The book includes essays by Ceronetti, Quinzio, Tombari, Volponi, Totti, and Girolomoni on the topic of farming culture and on the initiatives in that field in Isola del Piano in the 1970s.

VIAGGIO INTORNO AL MEDITERRANEO
[A MEDITERRANEAN VOYAGE]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Cesena, Macro Edizioni, 1997)

The book tells about the meetings occurred in 1996 and 1997 that led the author to found Amab in Sicily, the Mediterranean Association for Organic Agriculture, one of three associations that contributed to develop organic farming in our country.

TERRE, MONTI, COLLINE. IL CASO ALCE NERO
[LAND, MOUNTAINS, AND HILLS. THE ALCE NERO CASE]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Milan, Jaca Book, 1992)

The story continues on how the experience of the Alce Nero cooperative is a case study for reviving the rural world and country life.

L’AZIENDA AGRICOLA BIOLOGICA: L’ESPERIENZA DI IVO TOTTI
[ORGANIC FARMING: THE IVO TOTTI’S EXPERIENCE]

edited by Mimmo Tringale

(Milan, Editoriale Jaca Book Book – Isola del Piano, Fondazione Alce Nero, 1991)

LEZIONI DI AGRICOLTURA BIOLOGICA
[LECTURES ON ORGANIC FARMING]

by Girolomoni, Pecchiai, Voitl, Guggenberger, Willi, Aubert, Del Fabro, Garofalo, and Levi

(Milan, Editoriale Jaca Book Book – Isola del Piano, Fondazione Alce Nero, 1990)

IL DUCA DI VENTURA
[THE ADVENTUROUS DUKE]. THEATRE SCRIPT

by Gino Girolomoni

(Urbania, STIBU Edizioni, 1984)

Art edition with engraving by Pietro Sanchini of Urbino. This script was performed in 1982 by Giorgio Albertazzi in the role of Federico da Montefeltro during the 5th centenary of his death.

RITORNA LA VITA SULLE COLLINE
[LIFE ON THE HILLS HAS RETURNED]

by Gino Girolomoni

(Pesaro, Metauro Edizioni, 2014. Milan, Jaca Book, 1982 – 1st edition. – Urbino, Metauro Edizioni, 2004 – 2nd edition).

This is the first book where Girolomoni explains the principles on which the Alce Nero cooperative was born. Friends, hopes, hard work, and ideals.