Description
LA DOTTA Paradisus
There is a city that, more than any other, has entrusted writing with the task of safeguarding freedom. Bologna, with its ancient stones and porticoes, is a promise handed down through time.
Here, the written word has never been a mere testimony, but a founding act, a civic gesture, a vision of humanity. It is in this deep-rooted tradition that LA DOTTA Liber Paradisus was born.
In the heart of the Middle Ages, when Europe was still bound by immutable constraints and hierarchies, Bologna chose to write a different page. A book of law that affirmed, with lucidity and courage, a radical idea: freedom as the original condition of human beings. A text that did not shout but declared. That did not impose but restored.
Once again, writing became a tool for emancipation, shared memory, the foundation of a new dignity.
LA DOTTA Liber Paradisus was born from that same tension. Not only as a celebratory object, but as a contemporary symbol of an intellectual legacy. Writing with this pen means recognising the value of free, slow, conscious thought. It means choosing words as a space for autonomy, as a gesture that belongs only to those who perform it. In a time that consumes everything quickly, Liber Paradisus invites us to pause, to leave a trace, to give shape to what is born within.
The LA DOTTA collection has its roots in the deepest soul of Bologna: that of knowledge, law and culture as a common good. It is a tribute to the city that has made intellect a daily practice, combining rigour and humanity, study and vision.
Each fountain pen in the collection tells a fragment of this identity, but Liber Paradisus represents its symbolic heart: writing as an act of freedom.
Made of ebonite, a living and noble material, Liber Paradisus stands out for its matte finish that gives a warm, deep, almost organic feel to the touch. The red version, crossed by yellow veins and embellished with gold finishes, evokes the warmth of the earth and civic passion. The blue version, streaked with red veins and platinum finishes, evokes the depth of thought, the dialogue between rigour and imagination. Two chromatic interpretations of the same principle: freedom as movement, never as stagnation.
Liber Paradisus is a collector’s item, designed to last over time, far from the fashions and urgencies of the present. It is a pen that does not demand attention but deserves it. It accompanies the writer in an ancient and ever-new gesture, transforming every word into an act of presence.
Because freedom is not only what is conquered. It is what is written, every day, with responsibility and care. And some pens are created to remind us of this.
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
(Martin Luther King)
