One day in October 2015 Ivana Marrone bought a handful of old amateur and family pictures at a second-hand market. Some time later those photographs, joined by others, left the trunk and were sent to writers, songwriters, journalists and cultural workers, to come back with a new story written especially for them: a new life handed to anyone who wants to read it. These are the Riscatti. The first book published by RVM Hub, it appears with three different dust jackets, each reproducing a pattern sampled from the decorated papers used on the covers and endpapers of fifteenth and nineteenth-century books, held in the collections of the Biblioteca Guarneriana in San Daniele del Friuli and the Letterform Archive in San Francisco: decorative motifs and a very light coated stock that recall the papers once used to protect books and photographic albums, or to line the inside of furniture, boxes, cases and drawers. “What you are holding is a family album. The album of a family of strangers, united by being, in their turn, strangers to whoever looks at them.” (Valerio Millefoglie)

Stories by: Davide Toffolo, Giovanni Truppi, Simona Pampallona, Errico Buonanno, Giorgio Cappozzo, Francesca De Salvia, Luca Longobardi, Francesco Di Bella, Carlo Virzì, Flavio Soriga, Alessandro Fullin, Giorgio Zanchini, Roberto Saviano, Davide Orecchio, Giorgio Nerone, Fernando Masullo, Andrea Bozzo, Dente, Francesca Mancini, Francesco Pacifico, Alessandro Mazzarelli, Irene Dionisio, Giuseppe Rizzo, Massimiliano Coccia, Giuseppe Catozzella, Noemi Gentiluomo, Antonella Lattanzi, Valerio Valentini, Carlo Ruggiero, Claudia Ferri, Corrado Fortuna, Aldo Nove, Iosonouncane, Vins Gallico, Giuditta Sin, Giordano Meacci, Maria Rita Di Bari, Riccardo Festa, Chiara Gamberale, Matteo B. Bianchi, Nadia Terranova, Paola Moretti, Francesco Ciavaglioli, Bianca Pitzorno, Claudio Morici, Carlo De Ruggieri, Caterina Venturini, Paola Soriga, Ester Armanino, Pino Marino, Angelo Trabace, Paolo Di Paolo, Francesco Lettieri, Giorgio Poi, Francesca Genti, Erri De Luca, Vinicio Capossela, Maurizio Carucci, Ivan Talarico, Gianluca De Rubertis, Gianluca Vassallo, Susanna Marietti, Patrizio Gonnella, Martina Zucca, Colapesce, Melissa Panarello, Carolina Cutolo.