Documenti Letterari

Literary experiments, essays on literature, history of literature: the identity of the "Documenti letterari" (literary documents) series was never made explicit even by Rizzoli in the advertisements of the time. Released in conjunction with the "Saggi" and the "Collana Storia", it was interrupted after a few years, between 1972 and 1973, with less than twenty volumes published.

The covers, however, are a clear expression of Bruno Munari's "playful" approach, more than other editorial projects for Rizzoli. Fixed a horizontal band of repeated black dots, two other colored bands surround the title, and a third band results from the overlapping of the inks. The palette is mainly composed of primary and secondary colors, but there are exceptions, such as a pink and blue box containing two volumes of Tolstoj.

This solution will be reused by Munari for Einaudi's Centopagine, with repeated illustrations in place of dots, and colored horizontal bands. And looking at Rizzoli's context, it's not far from the previous and more famous project for the covers of the Saggi Rizzoli, whose title breaks a vertical colored band.