Books in Italy explained

Italy is the home of two of the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Messaggerie Italiane and Mondadori Libri. Other large publishers include De Agostini Editore, Feltrinelli and the RCS MediaGroup.

History

Early printing press on Italian soil were established by a German colony in Subiaco in 1464, when Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim produced a Latin grammar by Donatus. Printing technology later developed in the 1460s in Rome and Venice, and in the 1470s in Bergamo, Bologna, Brescia, Cremona, Ferrara, Florence, Genoa, Lucca, Mantua, Messina, Milan, Modena, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Piacenza, Reggio Calabria, Treviso, Turin, Verona and Vicenza. By the 1480s printing facilities were also present in L'Aquila, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Siena, and Udine.^[1]

At the time of Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the Biblioteca Magliabechiana in Florence merged with the, and by 1885 became known as the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library). The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma was founded in 1876. As official legal deposit libraries, both maintain copies of all works published in Italy.^[2]

Notable publishers in Italy include Valentino Bompiani, Giovanni De Agostini, Giulio Einaudi, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Aldo Garzanti, Ulrico Hoepli, Leo Longanesi, Arnoldo Mondadori, Angelo Rizzoli and Albert Skira.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization named Turin the 2006 World Book Capital.

Bookselling

Notable bookstores in Italy include:

• Casella Studio Bibliografico (est. 1825), Naples
• Feltrinelli (est. 1954), chain retailer
• Libreria antiquaria Bourlot (est. 1848), Turin
• Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco (est. 1912), Turin
• Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg (est. 1872), Turin ^[3]
• Libreria Babele (est. 1987), Milan
• Libreria Bozzi (est. 1810), Genoa
• Libreria Internazionale Hoepli (est. 1879), Milan
• Mondadori Mediastore (est. 1907), Milan
• Rizzoli (est. 1927), Milan

Fairs

• Bologna Children's Book Fair https://web.archive.org/web/20171210044404/http://www.aie.it/Cosafacciamo/Fieredellibro.aspx

In popular culture

• The Name of the Rose (film), 1986

See also

• Category:Book publishing companies of Italy
• Collection (publishing)
• Publishing in Italy (in Italian)
• List of libraries in Italy
• Italian bibliophiles (fr)
• Italian literature
• Media of Italy
• Copyright law of Italy

Bibliography

in English

• Book: List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum . 3816244 . London . 2nd . G.W. Porter . G.K. Fortescue . 1889. Bibliographies of Countries: Italy. https://archive.org/stream/listofbibliogra00brit#page/n43/mode/2up. Internet Archive.
• Book: George Haven Putnam. Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages . G. P. Putnam's Sons . US . 1897. Privileges and Censorship in Italy, 1498-1798. https://books.google.com/books?id=ncoDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA343. George Haven Putnam .
• Book: Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum . Robert Proctor . London . Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company . 6438080 . 1898 . Books Printed From Types: Italy . 221+. HathiTrust. . 2027/uc1.c3450631 . Robert Proctor (bibliographer) .
• Book Trade at the Time of the Roman Empire . Felix Reichmann . . 8 . 1 . 40–76 . 4302429 . 1938. 10.1086/614173 . 144265336 .
• Book: Early printing in Italy, with special reference to the classics, 1469-1517 . John F. Peckham . Princeton University Library . US . 1940. .
• Book: . Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science . 23 . Dekker . 978-0-8247-2023-0 . https://books.google.com/books?id=tmnVublw2pwC . etal . 1978. Printers and Printing. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science . (Includes info about Italy)
• A Theory of the Early Italian Printing Firm . M.D. Feld . Harvard Library Bulletin . US . 0017-8136 . 33 . 1985 . + part 2, 1986
• Bibliographical Studies in Italy since 1945 . Enzo Esposito . etal . . US . 25 . 3 . 433–445 . 25542279 . 1990.
• Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620 . Deborah Parker . . 49 . 3 . 509–541 . 10.2307/2863365 . 1996. 2863365 . 164039060 .
  • Book: Western Europe . 5th . . Italy: Directory: Publishers . 396+ . 978-1-85743-152-0 . Regional Surveys of the World . 2003 .
• Book: Lisa Pon . Craig Kallendorf . Books of Venice . . 9781584562573 . 2009.
• Book: Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities . Benito Rial Costas . Brill . 9789004235748 . 2013. Paul F. Gehl. Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy.
• Book: Michael F. Suarez . . The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-967941-6 . 2013. Italy. Neil Harris. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2008-11882/
• Book: Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance . Angela Nuovo . Brill . 9789004245471 . 2013.
• Bibliography and Book Bureaucracy: Reading Licenses and the Circulation of Prohibited Books in Counter-Reformation Italy . . Hannah Marcus . 110 . 4 . 433–457 . 10.1086/689821 . 2016. 159814116 .

in Italian

• 1886-
• 1899-
• 1923-

External links

• (Bibliography of editions published on Italian peninsula)
• Web site: National Bibliographic Register: Italy . Ifla.org . . The Hague .
• Web site: British Library . UK . Help for Researchers . Italian Printed Books 1501-1800: Some Bibliographical Resources .
• Web site: . OCLC . (su:Book industries and trade -- Italy) . US . (Bibliography)

Notes and References

1. . (Searchable by town)
2. The Two National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome . Franca Arduini . . 25 . 3 . 383–405 . 25542277 . 1990 .
3. Web site: Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg .