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Preserving Knowledge
and Promoting Reading

Preserving Knowledge
and Promoting Reading

The first Pirelli library was set up in 1928, when a subscription library with 800 books was made available to personnel who were members of the Dopolavoro Aziende Pirelli, the workers’ club. It was one of the first examples of a company promoting reading and the start of long tradition that Pirelli has continued to this day with company libraries in the Headquarters at Milano Bicocca, in the factory in Bollate and in the Industrial Centre in ​​Settimo Torinese. But there is more, for the company has also been collecting scientific texts for over a century, and these now form part of the Scientific and Technical Library at the Pirelli Foundation. The panorama of Pirelli libraries ends with the Pirelli Foundation Library, which has books ranging from the history of the company to corporate communication.

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A Christmas Memory
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The Rome Book Fair
From 4 to 8 December, “Più Libri Più Liberi”, the National Fair of Small and Medium-sized Publishers, returns to the Nuvola in Rome. The programme for the five-day book fair features around 700 events with authors from around the world, and the participation of 569 publishers from across Italy has...
From 4 to 8 December, “Più Libri Più Liberi”, the National Fair of Small and Medium-sized Publishers, returns to the Nuvola in Rome. The programme for the five-day book fair features around 700 events with authors from around the world, and the participation of 569 publishers from across Italy has been confirmed. The 2025 theme, “Ragioni e sentimenti” (“Sense and Sensibilities”), has been chosen to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, explicitly recalling the novel that ushered in modern fiction. To view the full programme, click here. .

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