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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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Nord Nord
Marco Belpoliti’s latest book makes for essential reading. It charts the landscapes of Northern Italy closest to his heart, interweaving lyrical nature writing with recollections of people, objects and encounters, adding literary allusions to travellers’ impressions. What emerges is a tapestry of knowledge and memory spoken in the first person,...
while also offering a coherent, persuasive portrait of those lands, which he observes with empathy and a keen, human and intellectual curiosity. Milan, Monza, Brianza and Bergamo, and later the “Nord Nord” – Chiasso and the regions beyond the frontier – follow on from each other in Belpoliti’s memoir like the pages of an atlas, their images and episodes coming alive in the book’s thirty‑six chapters. We learn of photographers, artists and writers, whom he has met and frequented over the years and who have shaped Italian culture in recent decades – Alberto Arbasino, Marina Ballo, Gabriele Basilico, Mario Dondero, Enzo Mari, Lea Vergine, and the Sicilian émigrés to the North, Vincenzo Consolo and Ferdinando Scianna – capturing their world‑view in a single gesture or remembered moment. Rivers, mountains, hillsides, furtive creatures, exotic plants, primordial rock formations and collections of everyday objects reveal personal rituals which, taken together, constitute a snapshot of an era. In Nord Nord, Belpoliti consolidates the literary genre he launched with Pianura in 2021: a way of talking of his own experience as seen through places, objects, spaces and encounters that always interact with their author. The concept is what he attributes in the book to Mario Dondero – “in his shots there was not just the person depicted, but him as well”and “all his pictures are selfies of others”. Nor is there any shortage of references to Stendhal’s amorous escapades at Oggiono in this marvellous, at times sentimental, journey that indissolubly binds his own personal identity to the maps of places he has known, inhabited and loved.

Nord Nord
Marco Belpoliti
Einaudi, 2025

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Il Libro Possibile 2025
Now in its 24th edition, Il Libro Possibile is in full swing, once again supported this year by Pirelli as its main sponsor. The festival, which opened with its London stage from 11 to 13 March, continues from 9 to 12 July in Polignano a Mare and from 22 to...
26 July in Vieste. Among the many events scheduled, we highlight “Turning Points”, taking place on 10 July at 9:30 p.m. in Piazza Aldo Moro—a conversation featuring Marco Tronchetti Provera, executive vice president of the Pirelli Group, Tommaso Pincio, and Antonello Piroso, moderated by the journalist Stefania Pinna. On 11 July at 7 p.m., on Lungomare Domenico Modugno, Antonio Calabrò, director of the Pirelli Foundation, will participate in “Racconti d’impresa: elementi di valore per il Made in Italy nel mondo”, moderated by Enzo Magistà, and joined by Lucia Forte, Anteros Marra, and Angelo Riviezzo. To view the full programme, click here.

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