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Some notes on Edoardo Sanguineti, Atlante del Novecento italiano. La cultura letteraria. Fotografie di Giovanni Giovannetti. Manni Editore: Lecce 2001, pp. 127, Ill., ˆ 11,36. ISBN88-8176-180-7. Quite a peculiar book, this elegant Atlante is, according to Edoardo Sanguineti himself, more an index of a (not yet written) anthology than a real one. To describe it: there are 77 pictures of Italian writers, intellectuals, poets and artists mostly chosen by (and not by as stated in the book title -- apart from a few maybe!) Giovanni Giovannetti. They range, in alphabetical order, from Corrado Alvaro (San Luca, Reggio di Calabria, 1895 – Roma 1956) to Cesare Zavattini (Luzzara, Reggio Emilia, 1902- Roma 1989). As an introduction, the book opens with a long interview to Edoardo Sanguineti by Erminio Risso (44 thick pages), who already edited a substantial collection of essays by Edoardo Sanguineti, full of Gramscian echoes (Il chierico organico. Scritture e intellettuali, Feltrinelli: Milano 2000). Here Sanguineti provides us with some guidelines to better understand his choice of the authors, or better the authors’ portraits, to be included in this atlas. It might be easy to dismiss a book like this as a graphically impressi