

Furor Mathematicus
Seventy years after it was first published – back in 1950 – Leonardo Sinisgalli’s Furor Mathematicus is back in bookshops in a new edition from Oscar Mondadori. This is possibly the most representative work by the engineer-poet from Montemurro: a collection of thoughts, aphorisms, dialogues, and moral fables dating from around the time that Sinisgalli created Pirelli magazine together with Giuseppe Luraghi in 1948. Available for consultation in the library of the Pirelli Foundation, Furor Mathematicus is an ever-shifting point of equilibrium between words and numbers, poetry and mathematics, figures and algorithms. It is the milestone at which humanistic and scientific culture come together: a non-place that Sinisgalli searched for throughout the second half of the twentieth century – and eventually found.