An ambitious and complete work that combines the charm and the knowledge of astronomy with the masterful evocative interpretation of a great illustrator. The encounter between astronomy and art has given birth to a work of great value, a cross-cultural journey to discover the meaning and the interpretation of the sky and constellations. A complete work that offers the evanescent magic of a shimmering sky, through the seasons and the different hemispheres. An ambitious work, because the sky, as known, is not only populated by stars… It hosts a multitude of mythological characters, dreams and poems, stories and tales… Twenty fascinating illustrations collected in a volume of a large format are accompanied by brief literary and mythological narratives or in-depth scientific information. A tribute, in a contemporary key, to the iconography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to the large atlases which have laid the foundation of the cartography of the world, from Abraham Ortelius to Gerhard Kremer, to Hevelius’s star atlas.