Giovanni Caselli's
UNIVERSAL LIBRARY UNLIMITED
This site gives you access to a vast source of
visual material, just ask and you will get all the necessary information. What
I haven't got I will find it for you.
You can see numerous samples of
my own illustrations on this site, but the library contains paintings, old
prints and also my own photographs thoroughly covering the following subjects:
The Silk Road in China from Urumqi to
Heavenly Lake, to the Tarim River, and from Ruoqiang to Kashgar including
Khotan and Niya, the Karakoram to the Mustaghata
Uzbekistan from Merv to Bokhara,
Samarkand and Tashkent
Greece, mainland Greece and especially
the Pindus, Dodona and Delphi; the Peloponnese
All Egypt from Cairo to Abu Simbel,
including little known sites
The Alps from Provence to Austria
The Via Francigena from Canterbury to
Rome in thousands of images
The Appian Way from Rome to Brindisi
and the Via Traiana from Brindisi to Benevento. Every inch of the way has been
recorded
A massive archive of images of Tuscany
and Umbria
The rights on the images are
sold at conditions and prices which will be agreed on the basis of their use,
each purchase will therefore be a different case. No picture will be sold with
exclusive world rights, but further sales of a picture will be conditioned by
the previous sale, and exclusive rights of a temporary nature can be agreed.
All rights of any picture sold
from this site are the property of Giovanni Caselli, any question on this
matter will be dealt with through the Tribunal of Arezzo, Italy.
Here below you will find CV with various kinds of information concerning
Giovanni Caselli's work.
Giovanni Caselli
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1939 at “Villa
"Diploma
in Agriculture",
In
1970 moved to the
Elected
Fellow of the Royal Anthropological
Elected
Member of the Royal Archaeological
Calligrapher
and Photo-lithographer, trained & worked in
Editor,
Art Director and Illustrator, 1960-1964,
Editing
for the Encyclopedia “Cosa fanno gli Animali” (Animal Behavior)
12 volumes, edited by Sir Maurice Burton, then
Director of the Natural History Museum of London. Alberto Peruzzo Editore,
Milano, 1964, published in numerous editions in several languages.
Annual
business trips to the
Worked with Umberto Eco on “
1961-1965. Three volumes (Bompiani, 1966).
Writer, one
page feature in the popular Italian children’s weekly magazine
“Corriere dei Piccoli”(The Children's Courier), 1960-1964.
Chief Illustrator,
“Enciclopedia Medica De Agostini” (A
Medical Encyclopaedia) and Illustrator of several volumes on the sciences, 1964
to 1968.
Instructor
of Illustration, trained young Florentines as book illustrators,
Student of
the Classics and Classical Archaeology, field research in the
Consultant -
town planning, researched the history of settlement patterns for the local
planning authorities of one of the boroughs of the Florentine area (Bagno a
Ripoli).
Free-lance
Illustrator in
Inducted as
a “Member of the Society for Roman
Studies” upon presentation of archaeological field research results (
Student of
Archaeology and Cultural and Economic Anthropology on English textbooks under
the guidance of British academicians, from 1971.
Field
research campaign on the Peasant Culture in
Managing Editor, Mitchell Beazley Publishing Ltd. of
Edited “Medicine and Biology”
sections, intl. encyclopaedia “The Joy of Knowledge”, Mitchell Beazley Ltd.,
1971-1974.
Produced 12 large paintings, reconstructions of ‘Prehistoric Life in
Elected a “Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of
First public
lecture in English to postgraduate students of the
Created a
new style of book illustration, lead British artists into the profession, 1973.
Conceived,
designed and illustrated numerous books for Dorling Kindersley Ltd., Eurobook
(Peter Lowe) Ltd. and Macdonald Educational Ltd. of
Became recognized as a specialist in this subject by
paleo-anthropologists throughout the world. Copies of these paintings are still
on display in public and university
museums in
Author & Illustrator, “History of
Everyday Things”, 4 volumes, Macdonald Educational Ltd., multiple editions,
1980-1984.
Elected a Member of the
Creator,
book series for children, “Windows on
the World”, Dorling Kindersley, 1985.
Creator,
popular history book series for children, “The Everyday Life of…” 16 volumes,
Macdonald Educational Ltd., multiple editions, 1985 (American editions of “History
of Every-day Things” and “A History of Every-day Life” have been officially
adopted in the Social Studies curriculum of
many secondary schools in the US).
Lecturer,
‘Methods of Teaching History’, to secondary school teachers,
Speaker, International Symposium on Rescue
Archaeology,
Identified,
explored and mapped the entire route of Archbishop Sigeric from
Published
the first guidebook to this route Via
Romea, Cammino di Dio, Giunti,
Author &
Photographer, “Cultural Guide to the Alps”,
George Philip of
Walked the
entire alpine chain from
Created a unique photographic record of the
state of alpine culture in 1986
Was personal
Guide to His Royal Highness Prince Charles during his first visit to
Left
Explored in
full, and recorded in detail, the
Egyptian
exploration along the Nile, traveled
Wrote and
illustrated (with own photographs) a “Cultural Guide to the River Loire” Casterman
Publishing, Paris, 1990. Well reviewed in the French press, multiple editions
in several languages.
Member of an
International Scientific Expedition Team, Xinjiang (
Surveyed the
Vlak or Wallach shepherds of the Pindus Mountains,
Consultant
of Giunti Publishing Group,
Wrote the
first complete “Guide to the Ancient
Roman Roads of
Honorary
Member of the Board, Cultural Consultant in Residence, Visiting Lecturer in
Anthropology, and Chairman of the Committee for the Rural Open-Air Museum, studied
Published
(wrote & illustrated) the following books: “In Search of Pompeii”, “In
Search of Tutankhamun”, “In Search of Knossos”, “In Search of Troy”, Franklyn
Watts Publisher, London, 1999. These books have editions in several languages.
Retired to
the Casentino Valley, Tuscany, Italy, 2000 (direct ancestors are recorded since
1384). Lectures on local history and archaeology, and on the foundations of
European Medieval Culture to educators, under a EU contract.
Host of a
weekly local television program on Channel 102, Subbiano, presenting discoveries
of the Casentino from 2002 to 2005.
Consultant
for traditional recipes and for the history of cooking in
Lecturer,
the “History of Italian Cuisine”, the Lorenzo de Medici Institute for foreign
students of
Public
speaking appearances (6), “The roots of
Italian culture from the fall of
Published “The Great Book of Progress”, with De
Agostini Editore, for secondary school children in
Selected by
UNESCO as an expert on the history and anthropology of the Italian landscape,
to join a panel to research the subject of “Innovative use of World Traditional
Knowledge” in an effort to create a “Traditional Knowledge World Bank” based in
Florence, (Dec. 2006)
Currently
writing an autobiographical account of his research on the origins of modern
European culture at the request of journalist Stefano Malatesta of “
Curator
of the Filippo De Filippi Archive, specifically the explorer’s correspondence
with British explorer Sir Aurel Stein and his wife’s correspondence with
British and American
personalities of the time (1880’s to 1938), Rome.
Books written:
39 entries
credited to Giovanni Caselli, Library of Congress Catalogue (CNIDR Web-Z39.50 gateway, version 1.08). approx.
180 entries on <amazon.com>-British Library Catalogue. Many of these books can be traced by
searching Giovanni Caselli on the WWW.
A list of some books by Giovanni Caselli still
available:
1) Ancient Pathways of the
co-author of the English text (1988).
2)
3) Egitto, guida culturale (Giunti-Casterman)
original text in English (1991).
4)
5)
6)
7)
Guida alle Antiche Strade Romane (De Agostini) original text in Italian (1994)
8)
Viaggio in Egitto (CD ROM, ACTA, Italia) original text in Italian (1995)
9)
Il Cammino dell’Uomo (De Agostini) Co-author with Brian Fagan(1995)
10)
I Viaggi di Ulisse (Giunti) illustrations and text in Italian (Andersen Award
1994)
11)
Atlante di Mitologia Classica (Giunti) original text in Italian (1996)
12) History of Every-day Things: First
Civilizations (Macdonald Educational London and Peter Bedrick New York, 1986)
Author of original English text, and illustrator.
13) History of Every-day Things: The Roman
Empire and the Dark Ages (Macdonald Educational London and Peter Bedrick New
York, 1986) Author of original English text, and illustrator.
14) History of Every-day Things: The Middle
Ages (Macdonald Educational London and Peter Bedrick New York, 1986) Author of
original English text, and illustrator.
15) History of Every-day Things: The
Renaissance and the
16) Bulfinches Mythology (Macmillan, New York,
1997) Author of critical introduction and illustrations.
17) In Search of
18) In Search of
19) In Search of Tutankhamun (Watts Books,
London, 1999) Author and illustrator.
20) In Search of
21)
Casentino, guida storico-antropologica e ambientale (Le Balze, Montepulciano,
2003) Author.
22)
Translation of: Attraverso il Casentino by Lina Eckenstein 1902. (Federico
Frezzolini Editore, Chiusi della Verna, 2003) Translator
23) Il Grande Libro del Progresso dell'Umanità (De Agostini
Publisher) 2007 Author and illustrator.
Academic publications relevant to local
history, ethnography and archaeology:
Caselli, G., Guerrini, S. : La
treggia in Documentiamo Firenze e
G. Caselli : La treggia:
nota preliminare per uno studio dei materiali delle culture non-urbane in
Italia “Archeologia medievale”, II-1975, Firenze, CLUSF, 1975 pp. 440-454
G. Caselli : Cultura contadina: cultura di popolo. Note
in margine a una mostra di fotografie e attrezzi agricoli, Antella, Circolo
ricreativo e culturale, 1975
Cultura contadina, “Le gualchiere.
Ricerche sull'agro fiorentino”, II-1976, Antella, CRCMT, 1976, pp. 39-58
G. Caselli, S. Guerrini : Viaggio
nella cultura contadina, “La graticola”, Firenze, 1976;
G. Caselli, Per uno studio
tipologico dell’aratro con particolare riferimento alla regione Toscana,
“Archeologia medievale”, IV-1977, Firenze, CLUSF, 1978, pp. 281-296
G. Caselli: Ethnoarchaeology in
G. Caselli, A typology of peasant huts in Tuscany, “Ethnologia europaea”, X-2,
1977-78, Gottingen, Verlag Otto Schwartz & Co., 1979, pp. 144-160
S. Guerrini : Cultura
contadina: un esempio di ricerca a Bagno a Ripoli, “Le gualchiere. Ricerche
sull'agro fiorentino”, IV-1978, Antella, CRCMT, 1978
Inchiesta sulle tradizioni
popolari, CRCMT—centro Vita Popolare -- Biblioteca comunale di Bagno a
Ripoli, Bagno a Ripoli, 1978
G. Caselli : Cultura
contadina. Verso la riscoperta delle origini della cultura contadina sulle
colline toscane, “Mondo archeologico”,.35-36, Firenze, Corrado Tedeschi,
1979, pp. 44-48
S. Guerrini : Cultura
materiale contadina: proposte di schedatura, “Proposte e ricerche”, 3-4,
Universita di Urbino, Urbino, 1979, pp. 33-38
G. Caselli : La cultura
della treggia, “Mondo archeologico” 41, Firenze, Corrado Tedeschi, 1980,
pp. 't2-46;
G.Caselli : Il linguaggio
degli attrezzi agricoli tradizionali, in D. Herlihy R.C.Trexler “L’Impruneta una pieve, un santuario un
comune rurale”, Firenze 1988.
G.Caselli : The
Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoralism. A Paper, given to the Anthropology Society
of Malta University, 1998.
“Archeologia Medievale”
Italy (1975 and 1976)
“Ethnologia Europaea”
Germany (1981)
“Mondo Archeologico”
“The Museum Ethnographer’s Group Bulletin”
“Proceedings of the Committee for the
Ethnological Atlas of Europe and Neighbouring
Countries”
“Archeologia Viva” Italy (1989-90)
“Focus”, Italy
(2005)
“Corrispondenza”
“L'asfodelo”, Italy (2006-7-8)
“Memorie Valdarnesi” (2007)
Contact:
Giovanni Caselli – Palazzo del Podestà, Piazza Tarlati –
52011 BIBBIENA (AR) – Italy Tel.: + 39 (0575) 539048 / Mobile: +39 338 7144251
e-mail: giovannicaselli@giovannicaselli.com
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