Limina

Limina was initially created in 1995. It was called that – from the Latin limen, limina: the borders and equally the thresholds, entrances, openings to something yet unknown – because of its ambition to explore new horizons. It succeeded in that aim, putting sports literature at the heart of its output, giving it a cultural dignity that had been previously unknown in Italy, and effectively bringing to the public at large a genre that had until then been prominent only in the Anglophone world. La farfalla granata [‘The Pomegranate Butterfly’], dedicated to the Torino star player Gigi Meroni, and Una porta nel cielo [‘A Door in the Sky’], the autobiography of Roberto Baggio, were among Limina’s greatest successes, although from the outset the spirit of the brand reached out way beyond sport, in order to tell the exceptional stories of individuals like Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and Paolo Borsellino.
Following a long period of inactivity, Limina was reborn in 2025, fuelled by the same ambition as before: to present the world through the extraordinary lives of men and women, athletes who achieved excellence – like Lewis Hamilton and Novak Djokovic – but also entrepreneurs and champions of the arts, like music, film and literature. The Limina catalogue contains the stories of those who, when faced with a border, have had the courage to cross it and blaze a new trail. Italian and international “non-fiction” and “literary non-fiction” titles fill an output that exalts all the true stories worth reading, beyond all borders.