Elegant, lofty, charming, brilliant, bellicose, refined, capricious, superb, temerarious, vain. Giulio Einaudi is an oxymoron. From the extensive literature that has furthered our understanding of his figure, he emerges as the synthesis of divergent behaviours and contrasting inclinations. This oxymoron translates in the features of his publishing house, which integrates diachronicity and current affairs, tradition and newness, scientificity and militancy. The book deepens our knowledge of one of the most neglected aspects of Giulio Einaudi’s outstanding service towards Italian culture: namely his promotion of public libraries in the 1960s in Italy. Our starting point is the establishment of Dogliani’s civic library, dedicated to his father the President Luigi Einaudi. Setting out from this event – which we have retraced with a particular eye towards oral history – the book proposes to rethink the relationship between Einaudi’s view on library project and his cultural programme, which he expressed in the same years through an intense political campaign for the promotion of public access to reading.
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-2999-1883
Book Title
Come un Ministro per la cultura
Book Subtitle
Giulio Einaudi e le biblioteche nel sistema del libro
Authors
Chiara Faggiolani
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
370
Publication Year
2020
Copyright Information
© 2020 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-134-1
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-133-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-134-1
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-135-8
Series Title
Biblioteche & bibliotecari / Libraries & librarians
Series ISSN
2612-7709
Series E-ISSN
2704-5889