martedì 4 maggio 2010

Bestiario


omnis mundi creatura
quasi liber et pictura
nobis est et speculum

del mondo ogni creatura
è un libro e una pittura
e uno specchio per noi

Alanus ab Insulis
(1128-1202)




l’uccello
Space for flying
God-bird 1
God-bird 2
God-bird 3
Chinese magpies
Persian thrust in Budapest
Uccello armeno a Venezia
canari bird in London
Owl above the olive trees
Waiting for you, comrade bird

l’usignolo
Sephardic nightingales
Singing for the second time
Singing for the third time
The prisoner’s romance
The zorzal
Morning bird

il gallo
The rooster is crowing
Crowing for the second time

il corvo
Grow a crow

il piccione
Piccione urbano a Praga

la farfalla
Heavenly and earthly love

la tigre
Tiger’s Year in Budapest
Paper tiger

i dodici animali
The great circle of time
Circular time
il cane
Dogs of God
The Trastevere’s dog
Lupus in tabula
Dogtours
Dogs of Sant Antoni
Sailor dogs
Semiramis’ dogs
Estonian military dogs
Dog on board
Frat dogs of Istanbul
Double-tailed dogs in Palma
Basket

l’orso
Bear cub
Bear hunting
Hunter’s equipment
The bear fires back
Bear ceremony in Moscow
Wandering bear
The Bear King
Little and Great Bear
Wine to the Two Bears
The two envious bear cubs
The Hungarian and his bear
Bear cave
Fox Tale

il lione
The educated lion
Lioness in Odesa
The lion’s tail
Double-tailed lion

e l’agnello
Agnus Dei

capre del mondo!
Gorgan
Chongqing
Mallorca, West
Mallorca, North
Mallorca, South
Istanbul
The Holy Land
The Goat Island

l’asino
Bookmobile

la scimmia
Monkey’s love
Kill King Kong!

la volpe
Fox Tale
The fox and the cheese
The fox and the mouse
il gatto
Muska
Yoshka
Hero cats of Leningrad
The Muromtsev Dacha
Cat funerals
Chinese cats
Cats in Mallorca
Cat in Cantabria
Argentine cats
The Cat Bride
Man with a Cat
The wind-swept spirit
Il pianeta dei gatti

il coniglio
Rabbit in the moon
Year of the rabbit

l’elefante
Czech elephant
Chinese elephant
Argentine elephant
Portuguese elephant
Nazi elephant

il rinoceronte
0. Rhinocerology
1. The Pope’s rhinoceros
2. Rhino on the reverse
3. The first litter
4. The truth suppressed
5. A distant relative
Bookmobile

il drago/serpente/coccodrillo
Dragon invasion
Hidden dragons
Terra Sancta
Dragon anatomy
Il serpente sugli affissi politici
Il dragone di Shaun Tan a Venezia
Blogger

il pesce
Little and big fishes
The big fish

la balena
Leviathan, or, The whale

il mostro
Pantagruel’s monsters
The monster of Anatolia

la formica
Ant marries

il grillo/la cavalletta
Like the cicada
Winter grasshoppers

l’insetto
Apotheosis of the bookworm