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Bibliopolis - Edizioni di Filosofia e Scienze was founded in 1976 by its owner and director Francesco del Franco, together with his wife, Nella Castiglione Morelli, an archeologist in classical antiquity. Even if addressed, for their specialized contents, to a restricted scholarly readership, under the imprint of Bibliopolis over 300 volumes (periodicals not included) have appeared, a good many of them in English or in native language of authors.

The focus of Bibliopolis on scientific and philosophical subjects is strictly related to the background of his publisher. Francesco del Franco, on the one hand, was awarded a degree in physics from the Theoretical Physics Institute of University of Naples, on the other he has inherited from his father Constantino, a bibliophile who cultivated humanistic studies within B. Croce's entourage, a genuine interest in philosophy and in classical world where it rose, as welI as a taste for publications conforming to high printing standards.

The logotype of Bibliopolis, a siren framed by the inscription "non sempre nuoce" , suggests "it is not always harmful" to be taken by a fascinating, though very challenging idea: actually the attitude Bibliopolis has started with. The picture was originally designed by A. Bulifon, a Frenchman who moved to Naples around 1650, where he was known both as a publisher and an active scholar...