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An illustrated book for children about monsters and animals of the past

`Bestiario Fantastico`, in all the bookshops

A dive into the Middle Ages and a journey between chimeras, unicorns, dragons, wyverns and sirens that populated the imagination of young people and adults


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In the Middle Ages bestiaries had great success and were among the most read texts and most copied by scribes: little encyclopaedias on real and imaginary wildlife, in which the `scientific` description of animals mingled with the legendary story. From today, italian girls and boys are offered the opportunity to repeat a dive into that past dominated by fantasy, thanks to the illustrated book  "Bestiario fantastico. Mostri e animali di altri tempi".

Authors of the book are two venetian parents, Francesca Gambino, university researcher and scholar of the Middle Ages, and Enrico Cerni, manager and trainer with the passion for writing. Illustrator is the young Tuscan David Bertelli, who has made for the volume more than twenty color paintings. Publishing House, the emerging "Coccole e Caccole", from Cosenza, that is increasingly characterized as a point of reference in Italy for literature from and for children.

The "Bestiario fantastico" is an anthology of stories devoted to the most unusual animals, which have always captivated, frightened and intrigued adults and young people. It starts off with Phoenix, the immortal bird that regenerates itself and rises from its ashes, to the dreaded European dragon, to Idra, the snake with many heads, to the Wyvern, that "unlike the common dragon, has only two legs and does not spit fire". Monster after monster, fantasy after fantasy, readers venture into places populated by the Leviathan, the Chimera, the Harpies, the Centauri, up to the Minotaur and the Basiliscus, a yellow four-legged rooster with the tail of a serpent. In short, a fascinating overview of "monsters and animals of the past", that can capture the imagination of the little curious readers.

The writers of "Bestiario fantastico" are the same authors of "La Divina Avventura", the bestseller of "Coccole e Caccole" publisher, who approached the girls and children to the Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The book, written in quatrains of verse octosyllables, was quoted by most italian newspapers and has been adopted in many schools which volume of introduction to the knowledge of "true" Divine Comedy. To learn more, the site dedicated to "La Divina Avventura" is  www.ladivinaavventura.it.

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