# VARCHI BOOKS

> Independent publishing project: libri su città, immagini, territori, patrimonio, mito, architettura, società e trasformazioni.

## Site purpose

Varchi Books è un progetto editoriale indipendente. Il sito collega libri, schede, collane, Journal e Visual Archive. I contenuti principali sono in italiano e inglese britannico.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://www.varchibooks.com/)
- [Libri](https://www.varchibooks.com/libri/)
- [Varchi Journal](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/)
- [Visual Archive](https://www.varchibooks.com/visual-archive/)
- [Progetto](https://www.varchibooks.com/progetto/)
- [Linee di ricerca](https://www.varchibooks.com/linee-di-ricerca/)
- [English home](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/)
- [Books](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/books/)
- [Journal EN](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/)
- [Visual Archive EN](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/visual-archive/)

## High-signal public content

- [Visual Archive](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/visual-archive/) — [varchi_visual_archive limit="24" language="en"]
- [Visual Archive](https://www.varchibooks.com/visual-archive/) — [varchi_visual_archive limit="24"]
- [Varchi Journal](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/) — [varchi_journal_archive lang="en"]
- [The Trojan Horse](https://www.varchibooks.com/libri/the-trojan-horse/) — A horse enters history as a machine of deception and emerges transformed into a universal image. The Trojan Horse. Atlas of the Beautiful Lie crosses centuries of copies, reinventions and visual metamorphoses to examine how an object whose appearance has never been known with certainty became one of the most recognisable forms in the Western imagination. A visual atlas spanning archaeology, art, cinema, popular culture and contemporary imagery.
- [Matera’s Cave Dwellings: Architecture, Use and Transformation](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/matera-cave-dwellings-architecture-use-transformation/) — Matera’s cave dwelling is a hybrid architectural type: excavation, façade, lamione, cistern and shared spaces form an organism whose use, shape and meaning have changed over centuries.
- [Matera on Film: How the Screen Turned the City into a Universal Landscape](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/matera-on-film-universal-landscape-2/) — Matera has played Jerusalem, mythical worlds and itself. Cinema expanded its fame by selecting a different city, each time, within the same material fabric.
- [Does the Trojan Horse Appear in the Iliad or the Odyssey?](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/trojan-horse-iliad-or-odyssey/) — The Horse does not conclude the Iliad: it is recalled in the Odyssey and in the lost poems of the Epic Cycle. Here is where it appears and why the confusion persists.
- [Il Cavallo di Troia compare nell’Iliade o nell’Odissea?](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/cavallo-di-troia-iliade-o-odissea/) — Il Cavallo non conclude l’Iliade: viene ricordato nell’Odissea e nei poemi perduti del Ciclo epico. Ecco dove compare e perché la confusione è così diffusa.
- [L’Odissea al cinema: dal mito antico al film di Christopher Nolan](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/odissea-cinema-christopher-nolan/) — Un articolo sull’Odissea al cinema e sulla trasformazione del mito antico nelle immagini contemporanee.
- [The Odyssey on Film: From Ancient Myth to Christopher Nolan](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/odyssey-film-christopher-nolan/) — An article on the Odyssey on film and the transformation of ancient myth into contemporary visual culture.
- [Il Cavallo di Troia nell’arte e nelle mostre: immagini, reperti e metamorfosi](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/cavallo-di-troia-arte-mostre/) — Un articolo sulla presenza del Cavallo di Troia nell’arte, nelle mostre e nelle metamorfosi visive del mito.
- [The Trojan Horse in Art and Exhibitions: Images, Artefacts and Metamorphoses](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/trojan-horse-art-exhibitions/) — An article on the Trojan Horse in art, exhibitions and the visual metamorphoses of the myth.
- [Who Invented the Trojan Horse? Odysseus, Epeius and the Construction of Deception](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/who-invented-trojan-horse-odysseus-epeius-2/) — Odysseus devises the deception, Epeius builds the Horse and Athena supports the project. The story of an invention joining strategy, technique and narrative.
- [Computer Trojans: Why the Oldest Deception Still Works](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/computer-trojans-oldest-digital-deception/) — An article on why computer trojans take their name from the Trojan Horse and why the ancient structure of deception still works.
- [Trojan informatico: perché il più antico inganno funziona ancora](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/trojan-informatico-inganno-digitale/) — Un articolo sull’origine del nome trojan informatico e sul legame tra malware, inganno digitale e mito del Cavallo di Troia.
- [Imaginary Architecture: Ideal Cities, Utopias and Impossible Forms](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/imaginary-architecture-ideal-cities-utopias/) — An article on the Trojan Horse as impossible architecture, narrative object and threshold between city, myth and deception.
- [Il Cavallo di Troia è esistito davvero? Storia, mito e forma assente](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/cavallo-di-troia-esistito-davvero/) — Un articolo sul Cavallo di Troia tra storia, mito, fonti antiche e costruzione dell’immagine più celebre dell’inganno.
- [Did the Trojan Horse Really Exist? History, Myth and an Absent Form](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/did-the-trojan-horse-really-exist/) — An article on the Trojan Horse between history, myth, ancient sources and the most famous image of deception.
- [Architetture immaginarie: città ideali, utopie e forme impossibili](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/architetture-immaginarie-citta-ideali-utopie/) — Un articolo sul Cavallo di Troia come architettura impossibile, oggetto narrativo e soglia tra città, mito e inganno.
- [Laocoön and Cassandra: Why Warnings Are Not Enough](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/laocoon-cassandra-why-warnings-fail/) — An article on Laocoön, Cassandra and the ignored warnings in the myth of the Trojan Horse.
- [Sinon and the Art of Making a Lie Credible](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/sinon-art-making-lie-credible/) — An article on Sinon, the Trojan Horse and the rhetorical construction of a credible lie.
- [Laocoonte e Cassandra: perché gli avvertimenti non bastano](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/laocoonte-cassandra-avvertimenti-non-bastano/) — Un articolo su Laocoonte, Cassandra e sugli avvertimenti ignorati nel mito del Cavallo di Troia.
- [How Many Warriors Were Hidden Inside the Trojan Horse?](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/how-many-warriors-trojan-horse/) — An article on the number of warriors hidden inside the Trojan Horse and the variants of the ancient tradition.
- [Quanti guerrieri erano nascosti nel Cavallo di Troia?](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/quanti-guerrieri-cavallo-di-troia/) — Un articolo sul numero dei guerrieri nascosti nel Cavallo di Troia e sulle varianti della tradizione antica.
- [Who Invented the Trojan Horse? Odysseus, Epeius and the Construction of Deception](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/journal/who-invented-trojan-horse-odysseus-epeius/) — An article on who invented the Trojan Horse, between Odysseus, Epeius, material construction and narrative strategy.
- [Varchi Journal](https://www.varchibooks.com/journal/) — [varchi_journal_archive]
- [Il cavallo di Troia](https://www.varchibooks.com/libri/il-cavallo-di-troia/) — Un libro sul cavallo di Troia, sulla guerra, sullo stratagemma di Ulisse e sulla più celebre immagine dell’inganno. Un atlante visivo tra mito, archeologia, arte e finzione documentaria.
- [Io, Matera](https://www.varchibooks.com/libri/io-matera/) — Un libro sui Sassi di Matera, la città abitata e la sua trasformazione in patrimonio e immagine. Io, Matera racconta dall’interno un organismo scavato, rimosso e restituito allo sguardo contemporaneo.
- [Press & Rights](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/press-rights/) — [vb_press_rights language="en"]
- [Press & Rights](https://www.varchibooks.com/press-rights/) — [vb_press_rights language="it"]
- [About Varchi Books](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/about/) — About Varchi Books An independent publishing project Books that enter familiar places, images and narratives where they stop being obvious. […]
- [About Varchi Books](https://www.varchibooks.com/about-varchi-books/) — About Varchi Books Un progetto editoriale indipendente Libri che entrano nei luoghi, nelle immagini e nei racconti già conosciuti dal […]
- [Linee di ricerca](https://www.varchibooks.com/collane/) — Linee di ricerca Modi di aprire un varco Le collane sono linee di ricerca: non semplici contenitori bibliografici, ma modi […]
- [Lines of enquiry](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/series/) — Lines of enquiry Ways of opening a passage The series are lines of enquiry: not simply bibliographic containers, but different […]
- [VARCHI BOOKS](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/) — Independent publishing project VARCHI BOOKS We enter familiar places, images and narratives where they stop being obvious. Books on cities, […]
- [Home](https://www.varchibooks.com/) — Independent publishing project VARCHI BOOKS Entriamo nelle cose già conosciute dal punto in cui smettono di essere ovvie. Libri su […]
- [Il mio account](https://www.varchibooks.com/mio-account/) — [woocommerce_my_account]
- [Contact](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/contact/) — [vb_contact_page language="en"]
- [Books](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/books/) — Catalogue Books English-language editions published by Varchi Books.
- [Authors](https://www.varchibooks.com/en/authors/) — Catalogue Authors The voices and perspectives that cross the Varchi Books catalogue.
- [Contatti](https://www.varchibooks.com/contatti/) — Contatti e informazioni. Per richieste sui libri, sulle collane, sui materiali destinati alla stampa, sui diritti editoriali o sulle possibili […]
- [Progetto](https://www.varchibooks.com/progetto/) — Progetto editoriale indipendente VARCHI BOOKS Pubblicare libri che aprano un varco: tra il luogo e la sua immagine, tra ciò […]
- [Libri](https://www.varchibooks.com/libri/)

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