Scripta Maneant Group
“That the writings remain!”
Scripta Maneant is a publishing house, founded in 2007, which purpues editorial aims inspired by highest values of art and culture. Every Scripta Maneant volume is a unicum entrusted to the best intellectual and artistic competences, and is carried out according to criteria of great craftmade mastery, as a tribute to excellence in the fields of the Italian expressiveness and human talent.
Scripta Maneant Group
“That the writings remain!”
Scripta Maneant is a publishing house, founded in 2007, which purpues editorial aims inspired by highest values of art and culture. Every Scripta Maneant volume is a unicum entrusted to the best intellectual and artistic competences, and is carried out according to criteria of great craftmade mastery, as a tribute to excellence in the fields of the Italian expressiveness and human talent.
Our Purposes
High quality in terms of content, depth of research, uniqueness of historical reconstruction, analysis of the languages of art, whether it is ancient, modern or contemporary.
These values are flanked, in the philosophy of the publishing house, by an artisanship of volumes, by the use of refined materials that make the book itself a work of art.
Among its authors and among those who provided support and writings for their own publications, Scripta Maneant boasts names such as Antonio Paolucci, Claudio Strinati, Vittorio Sgarbi, Bishop Timothy Verdon, Arrigo Levi, S.E. Francesco Moraglia, Rita Levi Montalcini, Carlo Pedretti, Marina Mattei, Martin Kemp, Giancarlo Alteri, Admiral of Cristiano Bettini, Alvise Zorzi, Bishop Enrico dal Covolo, Ugo Bellocchi, S.E.C. European Society of Culture and many other protagonists of the diffusion of the knowledge of the Italian culture tradition.
The Catalog
The works and series/collections of Scripta Maneant always develop with the close link with prestigious museums and/or institutions.
Reports of direct partnership and collaboration for many publications have been created with, among others, the Vatican Museums, the Warsaw National Library, the Pontifical Lateran University, the Vatican Apostolic Library, the M.I. Leonardo da Vinci, the Central Museum of the Risorgimento, the Tricolor Museum, the Naval History Office, the British National Gallery, the Patriarchate of Venice and others.
Collaborations also take place with the private protagonists of artistic and cultural diffusion: Scripta Maneant produces exhibition catalogs through modes that made volume, not the support of an event that ends with it, but the testament intended to remain forever.
Scripta Maneant has been honoured with numerous institutional awards including the Presidential Medal with which the President of Italian Republic has awarded Mother Flag, a volume published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.
Works in co-edition and exclusive distribution have been created together San Paolo Periodici/Famiglia Cristiana Group, Panorama, QN Il Resto del Carlino-La Nazione-Il Giorno, La Stampa and others newspapers with regional diffusion on the entire national territory.
At Firsthand
Engaged directly in the preservation and cultural security of art masterpieces.
Scripta Maneant Group has produced, funded and realised epochal photographic campaigns in the Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice e in Sistine Chapel in Vaticano. Collaborated with experts of photographic art and technological research, thanks to Scripta Maneant we have 1:1 scale images of masterpieces that can be observed, studied and understood as never before. These productions, from which unrivaled volumes have sprung up, represent the unmatchable point of arrival for the close vision of these masterpieces.
At Firsthand
Engaged directly in the preservation and cultural security of art masterpieces. Find out moreScripta Maneant Group has produced, funded and realised epochal photographic campaigns in the Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice e in Sistine Chapel in Vaticano. Collaborated with experts of photographic art and technological research, thanks to Scripta Maneant we have 1:1 scale images of masterpieces that can be observed, studied and understood as never before. These productions, from which unrivaled volumes have sprung up, represent the unmatchable point of arrival for the close vision of these masterpieces.
The Acquisitions
The most recent is that of the publishing house Magnus Editions, leading publisher in popular publications of ancient and modern art, a brand now owned exclusively of Scripta Maneant Group, which continues its publications in the spirit of quality research that has made the brand unique and internationally appreciated.
Impronta d’Artista
It is the section devoted to contemporary art, that is, the exclusive distribution of works made especially for projects of own design by the greatest exponents of Italian art today. Leonardo Lucchi, Omar Galliani, Matteo Basilè and Michelangelo Galliani are some of the names involved in this project; other prestigious artists are taking part and will grow in the ranks of a rapidly expanding business division.
The Celebration of Italian Excellence and the International Profile
Scripta Maneant works for the diffusion and preservation of Italian culture, through the close relationship with the realities, both institutional and private, which operate in this direction.
With the same energy, this work also takes place in co-edition with many countries around the world, where the Scripta Maneant volumes are published successfully. At present, Scripta Maneant volumes and its co-editions with international partners are sold and published all over the world.