"Su Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, la più completa e rigorosa messa a punto in merito ai dati biografici e alla carriera pittorica". 

(Claudio Strinati, Caravaggio e Vermeer, Einaudi, 2021).

E' uscita alla fine di questo 2023 presso Schnell & Steiner l'edizione tedesca de "Il Rinascimento nei Musei Italiani", il libro scritto da Claudio Strinati e Fabio Scaletti pubblicato nel 2017 da Scripta Maneant.

Strinati C., Scaletti F., Meisterwerke der Renaissance in Italianischen Museen, 2023, 517 pp., ill., euro 79.

Dopo le traduzioni in diverse lingue europee (inglese, francese, spagnolo, olandese, russo e altre lingue dell'Est Europa) non poteva mancare l'edizione cinese...

Diversamente dalle altre edizioni, il volume, a parità di qualità e di pagine, ha un formato ridotto, più maneggevole (cm 23 x 16,5). 

Il 13 novembre 2019, al Carlton Hotel di Bratislava,  Fabio Scaletti ha presentato la traduzione in lingua slovacca (edita da Ikar) del volume Caravaggio Vero, curato e scritto insieme a Claudio Strinati e con il contributo di altri autori, pubblicato in Italia da Scripta Maneant, Bologna.  

Qui di seguito il testo dell'intervista fatta all'autore dalla casa editrice Kokboekencentrum che ha appena pubblicato l'edizione olandese della monografia su Leonardo e visibile sul suo sito. 

    What is the connection between Leonardo Da Vinci and The Netherlands? Is there a connection at all?

It is very difficult, in the case of an absolute genius like Leonardo da Vinci, to speak about the influence on him by other artists or cultures. But surely there were some elements that connect the most important Flemish painters of the XVth century to Leonardo's mind and works. First of all, the new method of oil painting. Moreover the drawing up by light and thin glazes. The third point is the attention to the reality and to the landscape. Last but not least, the well-known "sfumato", that Leonardo emphasizes to the maximum. 

Did you come across new information about da Vinci when you were writing this book?

Every time a scholar writes a book on an artist, he learns something of new, even if he has already published one or more texts dedicated to him. For example, i have found again how he excelled in everything which caught his interest (painting, architecture, engineering, science, even weapons of war), seeing also in his tormented personality. But i have come across new information not before but after the issued of my "Leonardo 500", particularly in terms of some new paintings that i didn't know before. I refer to three paintings in private collections, the "Portrait of Lucrezia Crivelli", the "St. Apollonia" and the "Dame with a fur": very interesting, i would have insert them in my monography if i had seen these works on time. In addition, some scientific research made known to the public in an exhibition currently underway at the National Gallery in London ("Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece", until January 2020) lead me to expand further the role of the master in the second version of "The Virgin of the Rocks" compared to what i have already noted in the book. 

    What is your favorite work of da Vinci, and why?

As everybody may imagine, it is impossible to choose a single work between such a series of masterpieces. But i have a weakness for the shady "St. John the Baptist" in the Louvre, perhaps it resembles Caravaggio's style, my favorite painter, the artist of whom i am an expert! Seriously, that panel is painted with such a tactfulness of brush, essentially with only one colour, the white (the mark of the lights) in a sea of darkness, that it is impossible to go beyond and to do better. Furthermore, it is the last painting of the master, i like to think to his last days with this work in the studio.  

     What was your personal motivation behind writing this book?

As i said above, i am a specialist of Caravaggio, but i am also a scholar of the Renaissance, so that, when the Publisher asked to me to begin with Leonardo a trilogy on the giants of the Italian Renaissance (in this 2019 is issued my book on Raphael, in Italian edition, and now i am going to write a monography on Michelangelo Buonarroti that will be published in 2020), i replied: "I agree with great pleasure!". However, my book on Leonardo, which encloses also an essay by Martin Kemp on the painting called "La Bella Principessa", allowed me to talk about the work of the master (all the pictures and many drawings from the famous Codices), offering, i hope, a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analyses, of the oeuvre of this mastermind, a truly modern man and an artist that in his religious paintings and in his secular portraits has transposed his scientific studies, also by establishing an intimate dialogue between the painting's subject and the observer.

Editore: Scripta Maneant

Anno edizione: 2019

In commercio dal: 1 gennaio 2019

Pagine: 304 p., ill. , Rilegato

EAN: 9788895847450

IFAR. International Foundation for Art Research

Fabio Scaletti, Caravaggio. Catalogo ragionato delle opere autografe, attribuite e controverse, Artstudiopaparo, 2 volumi, Napoli, 2017,

pages 248 + 288.

The catalogue includes all the known authentic paintings, as well as attributed works and rejected attributions. The first volume includes a biography of the artist, with the catalogue and discussion of the authentic works.

The second volume has a list of doubtful works, with a discussion of the opinions concerning their attribution. The paintings are organized by subject: still-lifes, portraits, secular paintings, religious themes.

There is also a biography and index.