Armenia Edizioni is an Italian

Italy

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 publisher founded by Giovanni Armenia in 1972. Armenia specializes in two areas: one deals with fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 novels, the other concerns paranormal phenomena, astrology

Astrology

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 and new age

New Age

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. It also publishes several books dealing with oriental philosophies and styles of life, as well as essays of pedagogy

Pedagogy

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 and psychology

Psychology

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. Armenia is also the publisher of the Italian editions of Louise Hay

Louise Hay

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's books.

Fantasy and science-fiction

During the 1970s, Armenia published one of the most popular Italian science-fiction magazines, Robot, edited by Vittorio Curtoni

Vittorio Curtoni

Vittorio Curtoni was an Italian science fiction writer and translator.-Biography:Curtoni was born at San Pietro in Cerro, in the province of Piacenza, and entered the Italian science fiction world at a very young age. In 1970 he was co-editor of Galassia, a series publishing science fiction novels...

, as well as a series of novels issued under the same label.

Armenia was one of the first publishers in Italy to publish novels in the fantasy genre. Among its most important fantasy series are Dragonlance

Dragonlance

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...

 and Forgotten Realms

Forgotten Realms

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; authors published by Armenia include Margaret Weis

Margaret Weis

Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in fantastic worlds.-Early life:Margaret Weis was born in 1948 in Independence, Missouri, and later attended...

, Tracy Hickman

Tracy Hickman

Tracy Raye Hickman is a best-selling fantasy author, best known for his work on Dragonlance as a game designer and co-author with Margaret Weis, while he worked for TSR...

, R. A. Salvatore, Jean Rabe

Jean Rabe

Jean Rabe is a fantasy and sci-fi author and editor who has worked on the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and BattleTech series, as well as many others.-Career:...

, Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks

Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...

, Ed Greenwood

Ed Greenwood

Ed Greenwood is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms. He invented the Forgotten Realms as a child, as a fantasy world in which to set the stories he imagined, and later used this world as a campaign setting for his own personal Dungeons & Dragons playing group...

, and Richard A. Knaak

Richard A. Knaak

Richard A. Knaak is the author of Dragonlance novels, Dragonrealm, six novels for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, and nine works in the Warcraft universe...

.