Social Sciences Library, second floor
4 pm - Via delle Pandette, 2 - Novoli Campus - Florence
“Se tremila non sono pochi” (When 3000 are not that few).
Books and Reading between the two Wars
Books and libraries also participate in wars and are imprisoned in political prisons, just as reading can be an instrument of resistance, propaganda, reconstruction.
The meeting will address these issues starting from a YMCA project for the distribution of books to Italian prisoners in the camps during the Second World War, a project that involved Ernesto Rossi (economist, journalist, politician). An article on the subject was published in the May 2019 issue of Biblioteche oggi.
Programme:
4 pm: Welcome greetings
- Lucilla Conigliello, University of Florence, Social Sciences Library
- Caterina Del Vivo, MAB Toscana
Moderator:
Simone Neri Serneri, University of Florence
4.15 - 4.45 pm: Books at war in the First World War
Loretta De Franceschi, University of Urbino
4.45 - 5.45 pm: Books for Italian military internees in the Second World War.
Ernesto Rossi's vision
- Andrea Becherucci, Historical archives of the European Union
- Silvia Bruni, University of Florence, Social Sciences Library
- Benedetta Calonaci, University of Florence, Social Sciences Library
- Emilio Capannelli, Archival Superintendency for Tuscany
- Anna Lucarelli, Central National Library of Florence
- Sonia Puccetti, Luciano Caruso Archive
5.45 pm: Between past and present: libraries in the prison
Maria Grazia Pazienza, University of Florence, University Penitentiary Campus
6.15 - 6.30 pm: Debate and conclusions
Images are taken from the book Storia fotografica della prigionia dei militari italiani in Germania, (Photographic history of the imprisonment of Italian military in Germany) edited by Adolfo Mignemi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2005