Francesco Galofaro and Jenny Ponzo Introduction. New theoretical and metholodological perspectives on sanctity
Paolo Bertetti Figures of sanctity. Semiotics, sacred texts and theory of culture
Luigi Berzano Saintly Models and Lifestyles in the Sociological Tradition
Armando Fumagalli Religious Dramas in Italy. Dramaturgical Models, Thematization and Effectiveness of Biographical Miniseries
Massimo Leone Sanctity and Theatricality. Exploring the Conversion and Representations of Saint Thaïs through Hagiography, Literature, and Art post the Council of Trent
Jenny Ponzo Saintly animals. A semiotic perspective on changing models of sanctity and personhood
María Luisa Solís Zepeda About Normative Sanctities and Dissident Spiritualities
Simona Stano The Mirror, the Self(ie) and the New Sacred. Bodies, Objects, and Figures of the Contemporary “Cult of the Self”
Ugo Volli In the place of sanctity. Religious eminence in Jewish tradition
Valentina Manchia and Salvatore Zingale Variations of writing. Visuality of writing and visual writings
Leonardo Romei Leonardo as a visual communication theorist. Principles of written/graphic/visual communication in Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks
Antonio Perri, Luciano Perondi, Daniele Capo, Roberto Arista and Giampiero Dalai Alternative graphemics. Aztec writing system as a case study towards an integrated, digitalised model of non-typographic graphemics
Giacomo Festi and Weihuan Hou Contemporary reinventions of Chinese calligraphy. A semiotic exploration
Mansu Wang Chu Calligraphy on Bamboo Slips. The Visual Evolution from Seal Script to Clerical Script and Its Artistic Value
Silvia Pireddu From matter to pixels. Notes on visual poetry between analogue and digital
Ludovica Polo New verbo-visual explorations. Forms and applications of visual writing in contemporary artefacts
Marcello Sessa Typewriting. The 'typewriter poem' as a paradigm of the 'informational' image based on Paul Valéry, Leo Steinberg, Walter Benjamin, Max Bense
Simona La Neve It is already politics. Visual proto-elements for self-determination
Davide Tolfo The March of the Alphabets. Semiological investigation of the Slavs and Tatars
Daniele Barbieri Systems of representation. Semiotic considerations on Typographische Gestaltung
Valeria Bucchetti Identity figures. The letter-image as an expression of product identity
Girish Muzumdar, Asha Deshpande and Ben Howell Davis Pictograms as Visual Communication. Tools for the Autonomy and Accessibility of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Andrea Benedetti, Ángeles Briones and Arianna Bellantuono Algorithmic you. A design-setting for the re-appropriation of personal data through poetic narratives and revisiting models of visual poetry
Rossana De Angelis Digital writing formats. A topological analysis of screen publishing