The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


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First American edition of Edoardo Albinati’s La scuola cattolica, a novel based on the 1975 Circeo massacre. It was translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The Catholic School in 2019.

The type-only book jacket uses Lydia, Benjamin Critton’s digital interpretation of Lydian Bold Condensed. It was designed by Rodrigo Corral, who was also seminal in the reevaluation of (regular-wide) Lydian around 2010, see for example his design of The Barbarian Nurseries from 2011.

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Lydia is also used on the title page. The interior design was done by Abby Kagan.

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The paperback edition (Picador, 2020) uses the same basic design.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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