The Little Knight of the Chess King

by Carlo Alberto Cavazzoni
2016, Vignola Foundation
€ 18.00 pp. 88 – color ill.
ISBN 978-88-7866-024-3

To read Master Carlo Alberto Cavazzoni’s book is to breathe the world of fantasy of colors, values and magic; one enters the world of fairy tales, where with a great sweetness and with refined elegance of tells the beauty of dreams.
The dreams that each of us has had and wished to realize, the dreams that have increased man; the author tells a story with the eyes of a child, he concretely lives his emotion in writing about the world of Chess, duels, chivalrous honor and love.
The fairy tale is sweet and colorful like a blossoming plant, it is fragrant like a rose, it is the voice of dreams imbued with delicate poetry.

A friend in the Fortress

by Andrea Marcheselli
illustrations by Paolo Domeniconi
2012, Vignola Foundation
€ 8.00 pp. 36 – color ill.
ISBN 978-88-7866-020-5

“And who are you?” the child asks him. “Me? I’m Milo. And I’m the painter’s helper!” he says, puffing up his chest a little. “Ah, I thought you could play with me. Everyone here only seems to have work to do…” It seemed like just another boring day, but Isabella’s arrival changes everything! The new friendship is to be celebrated by exploring the Rocca in all its wonders, running up and down between stables, towers and kitchens even though this may make one forget that the painter, in the meantime, begins to rage…
A new fairy tale set in the Fortress of Vignola, where the friendship between Milo and Isabella d’Este will blossom.

In the Fortress of Vignola…

by Andrea Marcheselli
illustrations by Antonella Battilani
2011, Vignola Foundation
€ 8.00 pp. 28 – color ill.
ISBN 978-88-7866-019-9

“In the Fortress of Vignola what animals have dwelling?
It is the Leopard and the Lion that greet you in the hall!
…
Then who is behind the doorway the one at the bottom of the staircase?
Could it be that the Arthurian Dragon snoozes there and is safe?”

An Adventurous Rhyme-step Journey to the Fortress of Vignola, to learn more about its curious Inhabitants.

At the court of Uguccione

by Paolo Domeniconi
2006, Vignola Foundation
€ 8.00 pp. 36 – color ill.
ISBN 978-88-7866-006-9
88-7866-006-X

“Uffa… what good are all these swords, crossbows and armor if war is no more?” In the dark armory of the Fortress of Vignola, little Milo was about to get up to one of his own! From that day on, a new life would begin for him…
A fairy tale set in the Fortress of Vignola at the time of Uguccione, where little Milo, who prefers to paint rather than clean armor, learns the art of painting and life, thanks to the teachings of Master Frescobaldo.

Playground of the Fortress of Vignola

by Patrizia Belloi and Elis Colombini
illustrations by Gian Luca Bozzoli
2006, Elis Colombini publisher in Modena
€ 10.00 (at Rocca di Vignola: € 9.00)
pp. 72 – color ill.

The Fortress of Vignola, a splendid example of a severe fortress and sumptuous residence told to children by an exceptional guide: Uguccione. An exciting and adventurous journey to discover sumptuous halls and gloomy dungeons, lofty towers and marvelous paintings, aerial patrol walkways and dark dungeons. History and legend, tales and mysteries, games and curiosities serve as the guide’s guiding thread, which moves among lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, among heraldic symbols and sacred depictions, among noble families and mysterious painters. A playguide of the Fortress of Vignola to learn about, while having fun, a beautiful castle. A play guide, so a serious thing.

The Castle Notebook. The Adventures of Fantasma Lenzuolino in the Fortress of Vignola.

by Pierluigi Albertini
illustrations by Elena d’Agostino
2006, Vignola Foundation
€ 6.00 pp. 32 – color ill.

“In the fortress of Vignola/every day there is school./The teacher is an owl/who came on a bicycle. “
Fairy tale-rhyme set in the Fortress of Vignola, for coloring.

The Fortress of Vignola, color cardboard model

by Loreno Confortini
2005, Vignola Foundation
€ 10,00
With 15 color plates with pre-cut templates

Using glue, tape and ruler, it will be possible to make a cardboard model of the Fortress of Vignola.