Italy is the home of two of the world's biggestpublishers ofbooks in terms of revenue:Messaggerie Italiane andMondadori Libri .[ 1] De Agostini Editore ,Feltrinelli and theRCS MediaGroup .[ 2] [ nb 1]
Early printing press on Italian soil were established by a German colony inSubiaco in 1464, whenArnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim produced a Latin grammar byDonatus .[ 4] Rome andVenice , and in the 1470s inBergamo ,Bologna ,Brescia ,Cremona ,Ferrara ,Florence ,Genoa ,Lucca ,Mantua ,Messina ,Milan ,Modena ,Naples ,Padua ,Palermo ,Parma ,Pavia ,Perugia ,Piacenza ,Reggio Calabria ,Treviso ,Turin ,Verona andVicenza . By the 1480s printing facilities were also present inL'Aquila ,Pisa ,Reggio Emilia ,Siena , andUdine .[ 5] [ 6]
At the time ofItalian unification and the creation of theKingdom of Italy in 1861, the Biblioteca Magliabechiana in Florence merged with theBiblioteca Palatina Lorenese [it ] , and by 1885 became known as theBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library). TheBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma was founded in 1876. As officiallegal deposit libraries, both maintain copies of all works published in Italy.[ 7]
Notable publishers in Italy includeValentino Bompiani ,Giovanni De Agostini ,Giulio Einaudi ,Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ,Aldo Garzanti ,Ulrico Hoepli ,Leo Longanesi ,Arnoldo Mondadori ,Angelo Rizzoli andAlbert Skira .
TheUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization namedTurin the 2006World Book Capital .
Notable bookstores in Italy include:
Casella Studio Bibliografico (est. 1825), Naples Feltrinelli (est. 1954), chain retailerLibreria antiquaria Bourlot (est. 1848), TurinLibreria Antiquaria Pregliasco (est. 1912), Turin Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg (est. 1872), Turin[ 8] Libreria Babele (est. 1987), Milan Libreria Bozzi (est. 1810), GenoaLibreria Internazionale Hoepli (est. 1879), MilanMondadori Mediastore (est. 1907), MilanRizzoli (est. 1927), Milan^ Messaggerie and Mondadori also topped the list in 2016 and 2017.[ 3] [ 2] ^ "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018" ,Publishers Weekly ^a b "World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017" ,Publishers Weekly , US, 25 August 2017^ "World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016" ,Publishers Weekly , US, 26 August 2016^ Peckham 1940 .^ Proctor 1898 .^ "Index: Place of Publication" ,Incunabula Short Title Catalogue : the International Database of 15th-century European PrintingBritish Library , retrieved3 December 2017 ^ Franca Arduini (1990). "The Two National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome".Libraries & Culture 25 (3):383– 405.JSTOR 25542277 . ^ "Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg" .G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889)."Bibliographies of Countries: Italy" .List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London.OCLC 3816244 – viaInternet Archive . {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )George Haven Putnam (1897)."Privileges and Censorship in Italy, 1498-1798" .Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy".Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum . London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. pp. 221+.hdl :2027/uc1.c3450631 .OCLC 6438080 – viaHathiTrust .Felix Reichmann (1938). "Book Trade at the Time of the Roman Empire".Library Quarterly 8 (1):40– 76.doi :10.1086/614173 .JSTOR 4302429 .S2CID 144265336 . John F. Peckham (1940).Early printing in Italy, with special reference to the classics, 1469-1517 Allen Kent ; et al., eds. (1978)."Printers and Printing" .Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0 M.D. Feld (1985)."A Theory of the Early Italian Printing Firm" .Harvard Library Bulletin .33 . US.ISSN 0017-8136 . part 2 , 1986Enzo Esposito; et al. (1990). "Bibliographical Studies in Italy since 1945".Libraries & Culture 25 (3). US:433– 445.JSTOR 25542279 . Deborah Parker (1996). "Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620".Renaissance Quarterly 49 (3):509– 541.doi :10.2307/2863365 .JSTOR 2863365 .S2CID 164039060 . Paul F. Gehl (2000),Printing History and Book Arts: Recent Trends in the History of the Italian Book the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved2017-11-27 – viaNewberry Library "Italy: Directory: Publishers".Western Europe Europa Publications . 2003. p. 396+.ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0 Lisa Pon; Craig Kallendorf, eds. (2009).Books of Venice .Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana .ISBN 9781584562573 Paul F. Gehl (2013). "Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy". In Benito Rial Costas (ed.).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 . Brill.ISBN 9789004235748 Neil Harris (2013). "Italy". In Michael F. Suarez;H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.).The Book: A Global History ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6 [2] Angela Nuovo (2013).Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance . Brill.ISBN 9789004245471 Hannah Marcus (2016). "Bibliography and Book Bureaucracy: Reading Licenses and the Circulation of Prohibited Books in Counter-Reformation Italy".Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110 (4):433– 457.doi :10.1086/689821 .S2CID 159814116 .
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