Pazzini Editore

Pazzini Editore — formally Pazzini Stampatore Editore S.r.l. — is an Italian printing and publishing house founded in 1886 by Domenico Pazzini and headquartered at Villa Verucchio, in the province of Rimini. It began as a typography workshop and grew into a family business that today describes itself as a leader in offset and digital printing, while running a publishing arm whose catalogue exceeds 530 volumes. The company presents itself as a "family of artists: poets, writers, who became publishers and printers," and frames its books as "Arte Impressa" — printed art — produced with rigorous typographic criteria. The publishing catalogue is unusually broad for a regional house. It spans art and architectural guides, literary criticism, photography, graphic design, narrative, poetry, essays, history, spirituality, Franciscan studies, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, solidarity economics and globalization, current affairs and journalism, theology and philosophy. A significant share of its roughly thirty series is devoted to religious subjects, and it also publishes dialect literature and studies of Romagna dialects, notably in the series Vernacula and Parole nell'ombra and in the journal Il parlar franco, edited by Gualtiero De Santi. Authors who have published with Pazzini include Massimo Cacciari (La città) and Luigi Bettazzi (Esseri ed Essere; La Chiesa dei poveri. Dal Concilio a papa Francesco). The house operates from Villa Verucchio and sells directly through its website, which offers e-books, a customer area, wish lists, promotions and free-shipping incentives. Its series include Narrativa, Arte Grafica, Testimoni, Frontiere, Koinonia, Absorbeat, Al di là del detto, Theoria, XXI Secolo and Scienze religiose, alongside a Kids line. Recent titles listed on the site include Un tesoro ritrovato, Il paese del vento, Intermezzi semidialettali Verucchiesi e Cesenati del Settecento, I custodi della memoria, Cadere nelle braccia di Dio, Cammini di liberazione, Passione per l'unità, Francesco e l'oriente cristiano, Kratèr IV (2025) and Trasfigurazione. Pazzini remains a privately held Italian company, owned by the Pazzini family, and is not listed on any stock exchange. Its dual identity as both a commercial printer and a literary-religious publisher is central to its brand: the publishing house, in its own account, grew in parallel with the typographic business and inherited its technological and graphic expertise.

Pazzini was founded in 1886 by Domenico Pazzini as a typography workshop. For the first four decades it operated purely as a printer. In 1927 Domenico's son Eugenio launched the publishing activity alongside the typographic business, publishing his own collection Poesie giocose. From that point the house developed a dual identity as both printer and publisher, and the publishing arm grew in parallel with the printing operations, drawing on the firm's technological and graphic expertise. Over the following decades Pazzini built a catalogue of more than 530 volumes and around thirty series. A large part of the list is dedicated to religious subjects, reflecting the house's strong ties to Franciscan spirituality and to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue — themes consistent with its location in Verucchio, in the Romagna region. The catalogue also extends into art and architectural guides, literary criticism, photography, graphic design, narrative, poetry, essays, history, solidarity economics and globalization, current affairs and journalism, theology and philosophy. Pazzini has additionally published dialect literature and studies of Romagna dialects, in series such as Vernacula and Parole nell'ombra and in the journal Il parlar franco, edited by Gualtiero De Santi. Among the authors published by Pazzini are the philosopher Massimo Cacciari, with La città, and Bishop Luigi Bettazzi, with Esseri ed Essere. Cicaléccio... per i filosofi principianti and La Chiesa dei poveri. Dal Concilio a papa Francesco. The company describes itself as a "family of artists: poets, writers, who became publishers and printers," and continues to present its books as the product of meticulous typographic work in which intuition, genius and skill combine. Today Pazzini Stampatore Editore S.r.l. operates from Villa Verucchio, in the province of Rimini, and describes itself as a leader in the offset and digital printing market. It sells its books directly through its website, which offers e-books, a customer area, wish lists, promotional codes and free shipping, and it maintains a Facebook presence. Its recent output includes titles such as Un tesoro ritrovato, Il paese del vento, Intermezzi semidialettali Verucchiesi e Cesenati del Settecento, I custodi della memoria, Cadere nelle braccia di Dio, Cammini di liberazione, Passione per l'unità, Francesco e l'oriente cristiano, Kratèr IV (2025) and Trasfigurazione. The firm remains privately held by the Pazzini family.

• 2025

  Kratèr IV (2025) appears among the new releases on the publisher's website.

• 1927

  Eugenio Pazzini, son of the founder, launches the publishing activity with his own collection Poesie giocose.

• 1886

  Domenico Pazzini founds the company as a typography workshop.

A historic Italian family printing and publishing house combining artisanal typographic craft with a broad literary, artistic and religious catalogue, marketed as "Arte Impressa".

• Un tesoro ritrovato

• Il paese del vento

• Intermezzi semidialettali Verucchiesi e Cesenati del Settecento

• I custodi della memoria

• Cadere nelle braccia di Dio

• Cammini di liberazione

• Passione per l'unità

• Francesco e l'oriente cristiano

• Kratèr IV (2025)

• Trasfigurazione

1. 1Pazzini Stampatore Editore — official websitepazzinieditore.it
2. 2Chi siamo — Pazzini Stampatore Editorepazzinieditore.it
3. 3Pazzini Editore — Wikidatawikidata.org
4. 4Pazzini Editore — Wikipedia (Italian)it.wikipedia.org