The Italian Ministry of Culture, the Superintendent for Fine Arts in Florence, Pistoia and Prato, the Bardini Museum in Palazzo Mozzi, Florence and the Municipality of Florence contributed to the release of this book, which is written in Italian and English. "Oriental geometries. Stefano Bardini and the antique carpet" was published as a volume accompanying the homonym exhibition organized in concomitance with the IX International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC), which was held in Italy in 1999.