Typographer Ruari McLean has died, which is too bad. He wrote a fine biography of Jan Tschichold, among many other things.
A story by Alberto Savinio at Green Integer Review (there are other nice things there too). Here is a picture by Savinio, La famille de lions, from 1927:
And another, Le troisieme jour, from 1929 in the Palazzo Cavour in Torino:
