PIRIN

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Sebastiano B. Brocchi (Author) was born on 18 March 1987 in Montagnola (Switzerland), where he currently lives. He left high school to become an independent writer and researcher in the field of Art History, Hermetic Philosophy, Sacred Symbology and Inner Alchemy. In 2004 he published his first work, the brief treatise Collina d’Oro – I Tesori dell’Arte. In the following years he also published Collina d’Oro Segreta (2005), a book causing amazement in the Canton Ticino local press, and Riflessioni sulla Grande Opera (2006), considered by specialists as a masterwork on Alchemy. In 2009 he dedicates the essay Favole Ermetiche to the esoteric interpretation of traditional fairy-tales. In 2011 the historical detective-story L’Oro di Polia is published, while in 2012 he presents to the general public the first edition of the first volume of the Pirin fantasy saga, titled Memoirs of Helewen. The second volume, Hairam the Queen, is published in 2016. while the final chapter of the trilogy, " The Gests of Nhalbar", comes out in 2017.

He is also the author of several articles, studies, and interviews to important international characters, published on journals and web-pages, both in Switzerland and Italy.

Giovanni Carmine Costabile (Translator), indipendent scholar, translator, teacher. Born in Italy in 1987, MPhil in Philosophy, chiefly concerned with Fantasy and Tolkien, on whose work he did authorized research in Oxford archives, presented at conferences in Europe, published a book in Italy ( Oltre le Mura, Il Cerchio 2018), contributing to academic journals Mythlore, Inklings Jahrbuch, Tolkien Studies, and books (Luna Press, 2017, 2019; Walking Tree, 2019). His article “Fairy Marriages in Tolkien's Works”, Mallorn 59 (2018), is forthcoming in Chinese on web journal ArdaNews. As a translator, trained at Forlì Translation School, he published the outstanding US Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger in an authorized Italian version online (2017), was the translation consultant for Oronzo Cilli's Tolkien the Esperantist (2018), while several more translations of his are scheduled for publication.