L'editoria italiana nell'era digitale. Tradizione e attualità

The Italian Publishing Industry in the Digital Era. Tradition and Current Situation (edited by Claudio Marazzini) This e-book celebrates the great tradition of the old and modern Italian book in which culture, knowledge and editorial technique have combined for centuries in order to transmit beauty, art and new ideas. G. Chiarle opens with the history of the Italian book from the origins of printing to nowadays. The essay also includes a valued map by F. Sabatini which indicates the places in Italy where the first printing works developed. The ennoblement of the ‘book-as-an-object’ through artistic binding is the subject of F. Malaguzzi’s essay, while M. Sebastiani deals with Italian and international commitment for the Internet cataloguing and revitalization of the immense heritage of Italian libraries; M. Biffi then illustrates the rich Digital Library of the Accademia della Crusca. The European and international dimension emerges both from the essays by C. Marazzini (Ten Fundamental Italian Works Conceived Over the Italian Border) and by L. Tomasin on the Italian editorial industry in Switzerland. E. Lanfranchi deals with the Historical and Future Role of Dictionaries, with reference to the continuous efforts of the Accademia della Crusca in preserving and renewing the lexicographical tradition. The essay ends with a series of interviews for the major contemporary Italian lexicographers (V. Coletti, T. De Mauro, L. Enriques, G. Patota, L. Serianni, R. Simone). A. Musazzo has edited the final glossary, The Words of the Book, which lists the terms of editorial industry, printing and binding.