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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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Frankenstein
One of the best-loved fantasy classics of all time. One of the most translated, illustrated and reproduced horror tales ever written. Yet also one of the most profound and visionary works to explore questions that remain strikingly relevant today: can human beings overcome death? What makes a creature truly “human”?...
And can man create life? The story was the brainchild of the English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851), who began writing the novel in 1816 while staying in Switzerland with the poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, her future husband. The idea arose from evenings spent reading ghost stories. Doctor Frankenstein—“The Modern Prometheus”—is a scientist determined to bring to life an inanimate body assembled from lifeless human limbs. Using the power of galvanism, he succeeds in creating a grotesque being, crude yet endowed with terrifying strength—a monster incapable of distinguishing good from evil, and shunned by a society that fears him. Battello a Vapore presents this unabridged, easy-to-read Italian edition of Frankenstein, printed in the Leggimi© font, which makes it easier for children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and Special Educational Needs (SEN). A captivating novel, rich in questions and reflections, to be read and relished by young readers well beyond Halloween.

Recommended reading age: 9 and up

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, illustrations by Matteo Pincelli
Il Battello a Vapore, 2020

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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, on 30 October 1885. An American poet, essayist, and translator, Pound was a central figure of modernism, championing new poetic movements such as Imagism and Vorticism, which proved to be turning-points in contemporary verse. His monumental masterpiece, The Cantos, was composed between 1915...
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, on 30 October 1885. An American poet, essayist, and translator, Pound was a central figure of modernism, championing new poetic movements such as Imagism and Vorticism, which proved to be turning-points in contemporary verse. His monumental masterpiece, The Cantos, was composed between 1915 and 1962. The section known as The Pisan Cantos was written after the Second World War during his internment in a US detention camp in Pisa, where he was accused of collaboration with the Fascist regime.  

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