1945-1975: this was the golden age of Italian cinema, full of masterpieces that left their mark on the entire history of film. From the ruins of war arose Neorealism, the “movement” that, with Rossellini, Visconti and De Sica-Zavattini, changed the way cinema was made and conceived forever. From the early 1950s, the revolutionary charge of Neorealism faded, becoming contaminated with popular genres such as comedy and other forms of popular cinema, passing through the golden 1960s with the affirmation of great auteur cinema (Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, etc.), “Italian-style comedy” and other genres (such as spaghetti westerns), until the anxieties, experiments and new sensibilities of the early 1970s. A long history in which Italian cinema reflects and reworks the enormous political, social, economic and cultural changes experienced by the country during those crucial three decades.

Cristina Tomasi will be joining us for a talk entitled LA DONNA AL CENTRO, where she will discuss her latest book La rivoluzione del metabolismo. Il protocollo metabolico contro infiammazione e insulino-resistenza per prevenire le malattie, rallentare l’invecchiamento e perdere peso (Vallardi).

The Book:

Most people suffer from metabolic imbalances without even realizing it. The signs? Difficulty losing weight, persistent fatigue, sleep disturbances, hormonal issues, and chronic inflammation. Over time, these imbalances increase the risk of conditions such as diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and cardiovascular disorders.

With more than thirty years of clinical experience and an approach grounded in the latest scientific evidence, the Tomasi Method offers a comprehensive solution to reprogram the metabolism and restore natural well-being. Through targeted nutrition plans and daily practices, this book helps you reactivate your metabolism to lose weight, reduce chronic inflammation and insulin resistance, improve sleep quality and energy levels, and reverse cellular aging processes.

BECOME THE PROTAGONIST OF YOUR HEALTH

The Tomasi Method guides you in restoring metabolic balance through:

• Personalized and sustainable nutritional strategies

• Precise techniques to optimize sleep and hormonal response

• Specific protocols to manage inflammation and insulin resistance

• An integrated approach combining nutrition, movement, light exposure, and stress management

The Author:

Cristina Tomasi is an Italian medical doctor specializing in Internal Medicine and Angiology. After serving as Deputy Head Physician in Internal Medicine and completing several advanced master’s programs (she is an expert in bioequivalent hormone therapy), she founded the platform Top Life Project Srl to promote scientific knowledge and empower individuals to take charge of their own health.

She is a widely followed author on social media, with nearly one million followers across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

Among her published works are:
Non è solo questione di ormoni. Ritrovare vitalità e benessere psicofisico dopo i 40 anni con dieta, stile di vita e ormoni bioequivalenti (Red Edizioni, 2023), and La rivoluzione del metabolismo. Il protocollo metabolico contro infiammazione e insulino-resistenza per prevenire le malattie, rallentare l’invecchiamento e perdere peso (Vallardi, 2025).

Roger Abravanel and Luca D’Agnese present at GO Le grandi ipocrisie sul clima (Solferino), an illuminating and provocative essay that sheds light on both the strengths and weaknesses of the Italian economy in addressing the climate emergency. While the potential for innovation is considerable, the country’s ability to fully capitalize on it remains too weak.

Joining the authors on stage will be Andrea Marchetti, Headmaster of the Istituto agrario Le cascine; Alessandro Artini, President of ANP Toscana; Giampaolo Marchini, President of the Order of Journalists of Tuscany; Ferruccio de Bortoli, President of the publishing house Longanesi and of the association Vidas; and journalist Raffaele Capparelli.

The event will be moderated by Marcello Mancini, former director of La Nazione and President of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation of the Order of Journalists.

The Book

The planet is at risk. As the climate emergency manifests itself in all its severity, corporate commitment to sustainability has surged. Recently, however, growing skepticism has emerged toward the bureaucracy created in the name of environmental and social responsibility, known in companies by the acronym ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance).

The clash between enthusiasts and skeptics is dangerous because it generates a new form of climate denialism—one that acknowledges the problem but seeks to postpone solutions until they cost less, or believes that only the State should take responsibility.

The opposing mistakes of enthusiasts and skeptics are fueled by several dangerous hypocrisies. The hypocrisy of the neo-denialists, who claim to be concerned but ultimately propose only superficial initiatives. And the hypocrisy of the new sustainability “gurus,” who theorize a new “good” capitalism that in reality blends some sound principles long followed by responsible entrepreneurs with the claim that profit objectives should be relegated to the background.

What is needed instead is a new approach, as proposed in these pages: a “sustainability triangle” that has already achieved previously unthinkable progress on climate issues. This model calls for a new corporate mindset to seize the innovation opportunities offered by the planet, a qualitative leap in states’ economic policies, and a more pragmatic attitude from activists, who are too often driven by ideological extremism. At its core is a return to the original idea of sustainability—distinguishing true crises, which will inevitably explode if left unaddressed, from the countless other social and environmental problems in the world that businesses cannot be expected to solve.

The Authors

ROGER ABRAVANEL is Director Emeritus of McKinsey, an entrepreneur and investor in technology startups, and a board member of international companies, where he leads sustainability committees.
He is also a columnist for Corriere della Sera and an essayist. Among his books: Meritocrazia (2008), Aristocrazia 2.0(2021), and, with Luca D’Agnese, Regole (2010), Italia, cresci o esci! (2012), and La ricreazione è finita (2015).

LUCA D’AGNESE is Director of CDP Infrastructures, Public Administration and Territory at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. He also works in infrastructure advisory. Previously, he held positions at Hewlett-Packard and McKinsey. He served as CEO of the National Transmission Grid Operator and, in 2007, became CEO of ErgyCapital.
With Roger Abravanel he co-authored Regole (2010), Italia, cresci o esci! (2012), and La ricreazione è finita (2015).

Lyra Sunrise is coming to GO for the signing event of her debut novel Twist of Fate, Vol. 1 – Obsession (Sperling & Kupfer)!
Preorders of the book, which will grant you a pass, can be placed in our bookstore starting Friday, February 6.

Useful information

Here’s how the signing event will work:

• The priority pass is available with a preorder of the book made in our store only, or with the purchase of the book in-store only from the release date up to the day of the event. Passes will be distributed in time slots.

• To access the priority line, you must show your pass (with the correct time slot) to the staff member in charge.

• Once the priority line is finished, everyone else who did not purchase the book from us (and therefore does not have a pass) will be able to access the signing.

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The book

Delia Foster has learned how to survive. Raised in the shadow of an absent mother and a past that broke her, she built an armor to protect herself and chase her dreams. But when she flies to New York with her best friend Lynn to start over, fate has another challenge in store for her.
Her path crosses with the Harris brothers, heirs to the most powerful multinational company in America: Alexander, thirty-six, with icy eyes; and Erik, as charming as he is impulsive, trapped in a relationship he never chose.
Delia becomes Alexander’s personal assistant—the man she should hate, yet desires with every fiber of her being. Lynn, meanwhile, is forced to confront Erik’s truth, his anger, and his need to finally be himself.
As the line between passion and danger grows thinner, the four are drawn into anonymous threats and secrets someone is ready to expose. And to survive, they’ll have to choose which side to stand on.

The author

Lyra Sunrise is the pen name of a young author from Naples, born in 2007. Since childhood, she has taken refuge in love stories from movies, books, and TV series—where her passion for writing was born. Twist of Fate is her debut novel.

At Giunti Odeon, Living with the Times: a dialogue on Alleanza & Conversazione by Jonathan Sacks (Giuntina).

Participants will include Mons. Gherardo Gambelli, Archbishop of Florence; Rav Gadi Piperno, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Florence. The discussion will be moderated by Shulim Vogelmann, publisher of Giuntina. Greetings will also be offered by Sara Funaro, Mayor of Florence.

Genesi. Il libro dei fondamenti:

Bereshit, the Book of Genesis, speaks to us of origins: of the world, of humanity, of the family. Yet it is also the foundation of the Jewish experience and, at the same time, a universal narrative capable of addressing every human being, beyond all religious or cultural boundaries. Genesis confronts the great themes of the human condition—freedom, responsibility, justice, faith, and our relationship with others—through vivid, deeply human stories that continue to challenge the present.

In this first volume of the series Alleanza & Conversazione, Jonathan Sacks guides the reader by masterfully weaving Jewish wisdom together with philosophy, literature, and contemporary thought. With clarity and depth, Sacks invites us to discover how the stories of Genesis—from Creation to the Flood, from Babel to the call of Abraham, and through the deeply meaningful lives of the patriarchs and matriarchs—continue to speak to us today. His is a precious invitation to join the millennia-long conversation between heaven and earth, between God and humanity, in order to live our own time with awareness and hope.

Esodo. Il libro della redenzione

Shemot, the Book of Exodus, recounts the story of a people enslaved and oppressed for generations, who ultimately break free from the chains of the most powerful empire of the ancient world. This narrative carries revolutionary meaning: it presents a God who stands with the oppressed and the voiceless, and it celebrates the birth of the Jewish people, called to build a new society founded on justice and fairness. From slavery in Egypt to the plagues, from the leadership of Moses to the giving of the Torah, from the idolatry of the Golden Calf to the construction of the Tabernacle, Exodus continues to speak to us about freedom, responsibility, and the equal dignity of every human being.

In this second volume of the series Alleanza & Conversazione, Jonathan Sacks restores to Exodus its visionary power—the same power that inspired movements of liberation and struggles for civil rights. A message that remains profoundly relevant today, speaking of hope and of a society founded on integrity and mutual respect.

The Author:

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020) was a globally recognized religious leader, philosopher, and moral voice of our time. Author of more than twenty-five books, he received sixteen honorary degrees and numerous awards for his work. He served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. Giuntina has previously published Non nel nome di Dio and Moralità, to which are now added Genesi. Il libro dei fondamenti and Esodo. Il libro della redenzione, the first volumes of the series Alleanza & Conversazione.

1945-1975: this was the golden age of Italian cinema, full of masterpieces that left their mark on the entire history of film. From the ruins of war arose Neorealism, the “movement” that, with Rossellini, Visconti and De Sica-Zavattini, changed the way cinema was made and conceived forever. From the early 1950s, the revolutionary charge of Neorealism faded, becoming contaminated with popular genres such as comedy and other forms of popular cinema, passing through the golden 1960s with the affirmation of great auteur cinema (Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, etc.), “Italian-style comedy” and other genres (such as spaghetti westerns), until the anxieties, experiments and new sensibilities of the early 1970s. A long history in which Italian cinema reflects and reworks the enormous political, social, economic and cultural changes experienced by the country during those crucial three decades.

An eight-thousand-year journey unfolding through time like the woven strands of a fiasco and the hypnotic, caressing waves of a glass of red wine.

Francesco Sorelli, accompanied by Gilberto Bertini, presents at Giunti Odeon his book La Molecola della Civiltà: Il Viaggio del Vino tra Storia, Mito e Bellezza (Davide Falletta Editore).

The Book:

From Noah’s drunkenness to Catherine’s Renaissance, from the epicurean Etruscans to the wine-blood of Osiris, Dionysus and Christ; from the Greek symposium to medieval monasteries, from carpe diem to Lady and the Tramp’s kiss — in the journey of wine, between moderation and ecstasy, we glimpse the very essence of humanity: the search for beauty and the fear of death, conviviality and solitude, awareness and surrender to mystery.

An emotional and dizzying narrative that, through the extraordinary scientific, social, and cultural epic of Bacchus’ nectar, reveals — behind fragments of poetry, masterpieces of art, and reading suggestions — the luminous possibility for humankind to shape its own happiness.

The Author:

Francesco Sorelli works in communication, management, and wine culture. He travels the world telling the stories of Bacchus and the art of Italian living — a millennial expression of craftsmanship, beauty to be savored, and unparalleled creativity.

Alan Zamboni presents at Giunti Odeon L'atomo sfuggente (Mondadori*), a gripping crime novel poised between noir and the history of physics, scientific storytelling and mystery.

An investigation where—just like in the subatomic universe—opposing forces collide, threatening to trigger an explosion that could leave a trail of deaths behind.

The Book

Brescia, 1971. High school physics teacher Aldo Colombo vanishes without a trace. No note, no explanation.

Teo, a brilliant young mathematician and former student, refuses to believe the disappearance was voluntary. The only clue: a bundle of equations on neutrons and nuclear fission. Together with Deianira, a sharp and determined Hungarian teacher with a painful past, he follows a trail of anonymous letters, undercover agents, secret files, and experimental research on subatomic particles.

The mystery leads back to 1930s Rome, via Panisperna, and the laboratory of Enrico Fermi and Ettore Majorana.

What if Majorana never died—and has been hiding for thirty years?

The Author

An engineer and graduate in Modern Literature, Alan Zamboni began his artistic path as a musician and author. In 2013 he launched the YouTube science channel Curiuss, where he explores the history of science, with a focus on Physics and Astronomy.

At GO, the presentation of the bilingual volume Botteghe. Una storia fiorentina. A Florentine History (SIME BOOKS) will take place.

The presentation will feature photographer Guido Cozzi, who created the images included in the book, and Livia Frescobaldi, President of the Istituto de’ Bardi, who last year presented the exhibition of Cozzi’s photographs from which the idea for the book was born.

The event will be hosted by Chiara Dino of Corriere Fiorentino.

The Book:

Botteghe. Una storia fiorentina is a photographic book, a journey through the last remaining artisan workshops in the heart of Florence. It is also a tribute to the workshops that no longer exist but have left an important legacy.

A red thread to follow in order to rediscover the filigree of an authentic Florence—sometimes difficult to decipher because it is hidden, yet no less beautiful or significant for that reason.

The Author:

Guido Cozzi
Born in Florence in 1962. For specialized publishing, he has produced hundreds of photographic features of a geographical, ethnographic, and travel nature. In 1991, together with Stefano Amantini and Massimo Borchi, he founded Atlantide Phototravel, a photographic agency specializing in travel reportage.

Today he alternates photographic campaigns for major international archives with personal research projects in his local area, experimenting with different narrative styles according to the subject explored.

The story of two distant lives that brush against each other once more in search of answers, relief, and salvation. Francesca Tramonti and Francesco Gilioli will discuss Palco vuoto (Golem) together with Eleonora Ercolani.

The Book:

Helene and Cesare. They met in a Milan high school classroom and fell in love during warm summers by Lake Garda. An intense, fleeting happiness, as often happens at twenty: different and separate lives awaited them.

She, now the wife of a well-known lawyer, has moved to Florence and writes crime novels. An orderly, happy, and fulfilling existence—until the Event forces her to rethink herself, to look at herself with empty eyes.

He, with an ex-wife, a teenage son, and a new love shipwrecked in recriminations and whims that consume him. He makes a living writing crime reports, but seeks in literature a redemption for his wounded soul.

Many years later, they find themselves once again seated at the same table, in a Florentine café-concert hall. Adults now, carrying the weight of their experiences, with spirits longing for rest and the promise to meet again.

The Authors:

Francesca Tramonti
Born in Florence, she graduated in Literature and Philosophy. She has edited school editions, magazines, and fiction for Le Monnier and Giunti. After a period in the United States, she returned to Italy, where she obtained a teaching position in Italian Literature at upper secondary school level. An tireless reader and lover of cinema and theatre, she later turned to writing: she published La danza della vita (2022) with Porto Seguro and L’idea dentro di me. Giacomo Matteotti per le giovani generazioni. Una proposta di didattica orientativa (2024) with Pacini Editore. Palco vuoto is her third work.

Francesco Gilioli
Originally from Veneto, he lives between Milan and Portogruaro. He is a professional journalist, videomaker, and contributor to Agence France-Presse. He has worked in radio (RTL, Erreuno), television (La7, Euronews), print media (La Stampa, La Nuova Venezia), and online for Repubblica. He writes for himself, in an attempt to bring order to all the irrational forces that overwhelm him. He published Di là dall’amore, tra gli alberi (2021) with NullaDie. Palco vuoto is his second novel.

After the success of Selvaggio Ovest, Daniele Pasquini returns to GO with La fine della frontiera (NN Editore), a work that intertwines the western and the historical novel, where identity, choices, and destiny are measured against the course of history. It is a story of men and women searching for a place in the world and for something worth living — or dying — for. For this presentation, the author will be joined by Nicoletta Verna.

The book:

In 1861, Italy is a newly unified nation, and America promises an endless future. Dante Niccolai, a young Tuscan cart driver left orphaned, leaves his home to accompany the Ferrini family to the port of Genoa and decides to embark with them for the New World, chasing the mirage of a better life. Between him and Adele Ferrini an epistolary relationship is born, made of promises and long ожидations, but the vastness of the continent divides them: Dante wanders for years through the heart of America, while Adele finds a new identity among the Cheyenne. Their stories intertwine with History and with the adventures of Carlo Di Rudio, a Mazzinian revolutionary who escaped the guillotine and forced labor, and who chooses the West as his final trench. And as the white offensive culminates in the legendary Battle of Little Bighorn, symbol of Native resistance, a web of guilt, betrayal, and violence — bearing the name of the ferocious Iron Jack — binds together the destinies of Dante, Adele, and Carlo. La fine della frontiera is a historical and adventure novel, where the wandering lives of its protagonists stand out against the sunset of the myth of the West. With the clear voice of someone telling stories by a fire, Daniele Pasquini reminds us that life is a great battle already lost — but when the heart runs like a galloping horse, we can only mount up and ride.

This book is for those who travel for the pure pleasure of getting lost, for those hoping for another prequel of Yellowstone, for those who feel in their gut the rumbling of swallowed words, and for those who have discovered that a powerful desire is at once a condemnation and a blessing — a hunger for light that pushes us to march beyond the horizon.

The author:

Daniele Pasquini was born in 1988 in the province of Florence and works in publishing communication. He made his fiction debut in 2009 with Io volevo Ringo Starr, followed by a short novel and a collection of stories, all published by Intermezzi Editore. In 2022 he published Un naufragio with SEM. For NNE he published Selvaggio Ovest (2024), winner of the Selezione Bancarella Prize, finalist for the Alessandro Manzoni International Literary Prize, and finalist for the Asti d’Appello Prize.