![]() Borges was knowledgeable on the matter: Many of his short stories, from “The Library of Babel” to “The House of Asterion,” featured a labyrinth, both as a spatial concept and as a philosophical category. Ricci was working with the author Jorge Luis Borges on curating a book series for FMR when he told the Argentine master that he planned to build a labyrinth. Its catalog, specializing in art, design and literature, includes the first edition of the mysterious “Codex Seraphinianus” and possibly all works by the 18th century Italian typographer and printer Giambattista Bodoni, who lent his name to the typography font. In 1965, he created the publishing house FMR - his initials, and a pun on the French word éphémère (“ephemeral”). Ricci - a publisher, designer, book lover and art collector who died last September - was an enigmatic figure in Italian culture. It is no surprise that Franco Maria Ricci chose this location near the medieval town of Fontanellato to build something that - by definition - is easy to enter, but nearly impossible to exit. In the fall, the fog gets so thick that people often get lost driving home from work. This is a common sight in the Pianura Padana, the vast plain that takes the Po, Italy’s longest river, from the Alps all the way to the Adriatic Sea. ![]() The narrow, poplar-lined road leading to Labirinto della Masone, the world’s largest labyrinth, runs straight across the flat fields, with only a few mild bends.
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