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  Luigi Serafini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luigi Serafini is an Italian graphic artist famous for his unusual and obscure works such as the Codex Seraphinianus.
Born in Rome in 1949, Serafini began his career as an architect before creating the Codex Seraphinianus; he also authored the Pulcinellopedia Piccola.
Serafini has also worked with the media of industrial design, film, and theater, and has also written stories for Italian magazines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luigi_Serafini   (89 words)

  
 Glenville Funeral Home
Luigi was fond of family get-togethers, enjoyed hunting, tending to his garden, his fig trees, his grape vines and was known to make some fine wine.
Luigi is survived by his brothers, Michael Serafini and his wife Vita of Rexford, Frank Serafini and his wife Maria and a sister, Filomena DiCocco and her late husband Ercole.
Luigi was the brother-in-law of Biagio, Vincenza and Lucy Polsinelli, the late Philomena and Ben Valentine and Peter Polsinelli.
www.glenvillefuneralhome.com /viewobit.cfm?ObitID=393   (419 words)

  
 Luigi - Unipedia
Luigi is the Italian version of the given name Louis.
Luigi is a character from the Mario series of video games developed by Nintendo.
Luigi is a common nickname for the famous teacher of jazz technique Eugene Louis Faccuito.
www.unipedia.info /Luigi.html   (170 words)

  
 Serafini's Codex
The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by Italian graphic designer and architect, Luigi Serafini during the late 1970's.
Luigi Serafini is an Italian artist whose works all tend to be unusual.
Serafini teaches graphic design at the Futurarium Art School in Italy.
www.archimedes-lab.org /Serafi/C_serafini.html   (365 words)

  
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 Fantastic Metropolis » Another Green World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Imaginary worlds are as old as the human imagination itself and will be with us for as long as imagination lasts, despite their currently rather devalued reputation as staples of bad science fiction and fantasy.
Luigi Serafini takes the whole game a very difficult step further, by creating a complete work which describes his own fictional world in detail, with numerous colour illustrations and the whole written in a completely invented language and alphabet.
Serafini has sections on physics, chemistry, mineralogy (including many drawings of elaborate gems), geography, botany, zoology, sociology, linguistics, technology, architecture, sports (of all sorts), clothing, and so on.
www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/codex/full   (1407 words)

  
 todd: On Fictional Location and World Building
It should also be noted that Serafini and Borges' worlds serve purposes beyond simply existing, they act as part of the larger goal.
Serafini uses the world to examine our own, and how we classify existing objects.
Borges' uses the world of Tlon to show that an invented world is easier to understand than our existing one, no matter how "alien" it may be, as it would come from a human author or authors.
interactive.usc.edu /members/todd/archives/001304.html   (974 words)

  
 LUIGI SERAFINI
The fantastic universe of Serafini in its encyclopaedia "Codex Seraphinianus" at Franco Maria Ricci Editor gives us several representations of men here and animals strange, unreal, with getup indescribable, fanstastic, but which do not frighten.
Curious scene where strange characters, under the monitoring of a skeleton, remove the skin of individuals died and hung right behind.
The human figure is made up of as many faces than the wind vane on the head offers prospects for directions.
www.almaleh.com /art/salleserafini-e.htm   (194 words)

  
 "you're not the only genius in this family, Brian": Codex Seraphinianus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"It is the Codex Seraphinianus, perpetrated by Luigi Serafini in 1981 and since published in a number of different countries.
I cannot say "translated into a number of different languages" since the text is written in a wholly imaginary language, which must remain untranslatable.
Imaginary as well is the world depicted in the lavish illustrations — not just the cities, dress, and customs of beings which are themselves bizarre variations on the human theme, but flora and fauna, and "natural elements" that are utterly foreign to us.
www.thoughtpeach.com /archives/000288.html   (147 words)

  
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Paolo Bouquet and Bernardo Magnini and Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini, "A SAT-Based Algorithm for Context Matching", pp.
Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini, "On the Difference between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms", pp.
Luciano Serafini and Fausto Giunchiglia and John Mylopoulos and Philip Bernstein, "Local Relational Model: A Logical Formalization of Database Coordination", pp.
www.eecs.umich.edu /~rthomaso/bibs/context.bib.txt   (3125 words)

  
 Stone Cold Pimpin'
Fans of surrealism, fantasy, and late '70s European illustration should find much to groove on in Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus, a 400-page imaginary encyclopedia of a world similar to ours populated by bizarre creatures.
Serafini has a site, but it's under construction.
And apparently Serafini is just updating the original "mysterious" work, the Voynich Manuscript.
www.tedmills.com /2004/09/codex-seraphinaianus.shtml   (118 words)

  
 FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Art, music & theatre - Lyon Opera Ballet, Sadler's Wells   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Decouflé's speciality is eye-teasing spectacle, something after the fashion of Alwin Nikolais's offerings 30 years ago, but bare of movement save of the most simple-minded kind.
The argument for Tricodex proposes a cabinet of curiosities inspired by the artist and naturalist Luigi Serafini, who published a "visual encyclopedia of an imaginary universe" in 1981.
Serafini's caprices have given Decouflé the starting point for the capers and laboured japes that are the tasks for his performers.
news.ft.com /cms/s/d21ec27e-39f4-11da-806e-00000e2511c8.html   (315 words)

  
 Fantastic Metropolis » Another Green World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If Borges’ story sparked the creation of the book (and it’s a good bet that this was the case), Serafini’s pictures, in style and content, seem to owe much to the cartoons and drawings of another master of baroque European fantasy, Roland Topor.
Topor was an equally polymathic figure—cartoonist, writer, film maker—who still seems better known in his native France than elsewhere.
Topor and Serafini share a certain naïve draughtsmanship which nonetheless is in the service of an enthusiastic and deliberately Surrealist (in the original sense of the term) level of invention.
www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/codex/2   (706 words)

  
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1930 - 1933 vacant 1933 - 1936 Luigi Sincero 1870 - 1936 1936 - 1939 Angelo Maria Dolci 1867 - 1939 1939 - 1947 Carlo Salotti 1870 - 1947 Cardinal Bishops of Porto e San Rufina The diocese of Porto was erected in the 3th century.
Heads of the Papal administration Vice Chancellors and Chancellors (1) Vice Chancellors 1852 - 1878 Luigi, Cardinal Amato di San Filippo e Sorso, Bishop of Porto e San Rufina (1870 - 1877), of Ostia since 1877 s.a.
1939 - 1944 Luigi Maglione 1877 - 1944 1944 - 1958 none (1) (1) all duties were assumed by the Pope himself.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Holy_See.html   (1365 words)

  
 One of the great mysteries of all time, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is finally broken !
After a careful study of the phenomena known as the Codex Seraphinianus I have discovered the 'Jewel hidden in plain sight' and deciphered the other rosetta stone - the one that was contained inside an image known as the Matrix.
The Italian artist Luigi Serafini produced a richly illustrated book called the Codex Seraphinianus in the late 1970's.
Don Luigi chose to express alien ideas inside surreal artistic images that were his deciphering of the thoughts and ideas pressed upon him by the aliens; whether in dreams or a dreamlike state of consciousness only he can choose to say.
www.cr.cx /seraphinianus/codex   (2119 words)

  
 Luigi Serafini -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Luigi Serafini -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Luigi Serafini is an Italian graphic artist famous for his unusual and obscure works, such as the (additional info and facts about Codex Seraphinianus) Codex Seraphinianus.
Born in (Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire) Rome in 1949, Serafini began his career as an architect before creating the Codex Seraphinianus; he also authored the Pulcinellopedia Piccola.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lu/luigi_serafini.htm   (83 words)

  
 CODEX SERAPHINIANVS
The Codex is a collection of original artwork by Italian artist Luigi Serafini, presented as a travalogue or scientific study of an alien world.
He does costume and set design for the Teatro alla Scala and Piccolo Teatro in Milan, collaborated with Fellini on La voce della luna and is a visiting artist at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada.
I have heard of another book by Serafini, Pulcinellopedia Piccola; however, I have heard nothing about what it contains, who publishes it, or how it might be acquired, except for one image available here.
www.io.com /~iareth/codindx.html   (805 words)

  
 Apostolic Signatura (Tribunal) [Catholic-Hierarchy]
Luigi Serafini † (13 May 1884 Appointed - 31 Jul 1885 Appointed, Prefect of Council)
Carlo Luigi Morichini † (Prefect: 15 Jul 1878 to 26 Apr 1879)
Luigi Serafini † (Prefect: 13 May 1884 to 31 Jul 1885)
www.catholic-hierarchy.org /diocese/dxtas.html   (807 words)

  
 Qo'noS QonoS cha'maH chorgh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
paqvam qonmo' Luigi Serafini (Italyngan), 'oHvaD Codex Seraphinianus pongpu' je ghaH.
Serafini yabDaq chenlaw' Holvam; 'ej Hol yajmeH mIw peghlaw'taH ghaH.
Serafini Hol lumughqu'be'lu'pu', 'a paq navmey toghbogh mI' pat'e' pojta' 'Iwvan.
www.kli.org /QQ/QQ0312.html   (322 words)

  
 Codex Seraphinianus (John's Book Pages)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It's divided into a number of sections (each with its own table of contents) on subjects such as plants, animals, inhabitants, machines, clothing, and architecture.
After only a glance it becomes apparent that Serafini was not attempting to create a consistent alternate world.
A lot of the odd effect comes from parallelism between illustrations on a page -- Serafini plays with our desire to find patterns by providing just enough consistency to draw us into looking for an internal logic where there is none.
books.regehr.org /reviews/codexseraphinianus.html   (138 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Lyon Opera Ballet
Both modern dance productions were inspired by Codex Serafinius, an absurdist encyclopedia designed by contemporary Italian artist and naturalist Luigi Serafini.
One of the world's most fascinating publications, Serafini's stunning 400-page masterpiece features illustrations, graphs, charts, and descriptions depicting an imaginary world of fantastical animals, plants, objects, and machines.
Serafini's evocative encyclopedia has inspired Decouflé throughout his career, and it continues to feed his imagination with Tricodex, the culmination of his infatuation with Serafini.
www.kennedy-center.org /programs/dance/lyon_feature.html   (326 words)

  
 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - The Roman Curia
Luigi De Magistris, titular archbishop of Nova, pro-penitentiary (2001-2003)
In the thirteenth century the Sovereign Pontiffs used the services of officials-reporters (referendarii) to prepare petitions for signature or to refer questions involving justice or favors to the auditors (cardinals- auditors and chaplains-auditors).
Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. Luigi Poggi, pro-archivist and librarian (1992-1994); archivist and librarian (1994-1998)
www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/curia.htm   (3417 words)

  
 Lyon Opera Ballet -- George Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the beginning, after the curtain went up, darkness covered the stage and then, behold, light—ingenious lighting that made a bed of sea anemones not only fluoresce but also helped them undulate so convincingly that the cast seemed to consist not of dancers but specimens.
Decoufle gradually gathered an astonishing number of species into his arc—frogmen with flippers instead of ballet slippers, a spider with pointe shoes on her hands as well as feet, octopuses, hen, camel, unicorns plus others from a book of beasts by the artist and naturalist Luigi Serafini.
Translating Serafini's imaginary encyclopedia onto the stage was made possible by 25 dancers, about 75 movement tricks (my estimate), and 150 seductive yet dehumanizing costumes.
www.danceviewtimes.com /dvdc/reviews/spring04/lyonballet.htm   (399 words)

  
 Please let me know... - The Voynich Manuscript - tribe.net
i'd like to mention a work which should be of interest to anyone interested in the Voynich Manuscript in that it has many points of similarity - fantastic illustrations, an invented script for an imaginary language, etc. : Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini.
Luigi Serafini is a hard one to track down.
I once found that he was giving an archetecture seminar in Italy a couple of years back.
www.tribe.net /thread/4bf1d109-0e4b-46f7-b436-15aeb93b2e60?tribeid=8da27cb7-7924-4967-8c07-8151a7abb366   (328 words)

  
 Codex Seraphinianus: Some Observations
Anyway, don't blame me; it was Luigi Serafini who started it.
I don't own a copy of the Codex; I'm working from some notes I took in Michael Everson's library.
Telefol uses a base-27 system, and its speakers have the same anatomy as the rest of us, which is more than can be said of many kindreds in Serafini's world.
www.math.bas.bg /~iad/serafin.html   (1250 words)

  
 Obituaries
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Sea Cliff Fire Department Ambulance Fund, Roslyn Ave., Sea Cliff, NY 11579.
Fannie Serafini of Sea Cliff on October 5, 2004.
Cherished grandmother of Charles Martone, Laura Novosad, Frank Giannattasio II, William Giannattasio, Louis Serafini, Danny Serafini, Nicholas Serafini and great-grandmother of Holly Fincher, Frank Giannattasio III, Christopher Teal, Kelsey Martone, Marisa Martone, Elizabeth Giannattasio, Jake Giannattasio, Joseph Giannattasio and Lauren Serafini.
www.antonnews.com /glencoverecordpilot/2004/10/15/obituaries   (672 words)

  
 Where is Luigi Serafini? - Seraphinians - tribe.net
Now I realize that the Codex Seraphinianus, whatever else it may turn out to be when and if the text is translated into anything meaningful, is one of the greatest works of graphic art of the last 100 years and without peer in terms of an artistic representation of a created or alternate world.
It would also seem apparent that Serafini is not at all anxious to put himself forward at all, certainly not in any respect having to do with elucidating the many questions that we all have regarding the Codex.
Frank, thanks for the insite into a fantastic book of art; so I go read the Burroughs' book of Breathing which gives me to ponder the Luigi frame of it in text.
www.tribe.net /thread/39eda584-f588-4156-9215-73257d0d3006?tribeid=dc7167b8-597d-4d17-a6f6-98efbe4569e2   (768 words)

  
 UMS | Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The work is inspired by Codex Serafinius, the encyclopedia of the Italian artist and naturalist Luigi Serafini, who created a stunning and fascinating book of fantastic animals, imaginary plants, insects, and vegetables.
Tricodex is the third in a trilogy of works by Decouflé, who staged the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
The culmination of Decouflé’s infatuation with Serafini, the work features 30 dancers, 150 costumes, and video projections.
www.ums.org /secondary/season/artist/artistpage.asp?pageid=181   (135 words)

  
 Gordon Coale Weblog Entry - 05/12/2003
h, at Giornale Nuovo has a couple of posts of two amazing books by Luigi Serafini.
In the course of my search for the Codex Seraphinianus (see below), I gathered that Luigi Serafini had one other book to his name, the intriguingly titled Pulcinellopedia Piccola.
I scanned thousands of bookshop shelves during my two years in Italy, but never caught sight of a copy.
www.electricedge.com /greymatter/archives/00003265.htm   (261 words)

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