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The
publishing house Feltrinelli was founded in Milan towards the end of 1954 by
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli who, in 1949, had set up the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Library dedicated to the study of contemporary history and social movements.
The publishing house took over what was left of the Coli (Cooperativa del
Libro Popolare, Cooperative of the
popular book 1949-1954), and, in particular, one of its most prestigious
publications, the series "Universale Economica".
At first, the head office was at N.15 Via Fatebenefratelli, but by 1957 the
editorial staff had moved to the present offices at N. 6 Via Andegari, the
building here represented. The editors Luigi Diemoz, Gian Piero Brega, Valerio
Riva, Luciano Bianciardi, the editorial secretary Renata Cambiaghi and the
graphic artist Albe Steiner all collaborated with the publisher. Another
editorial office was later opened in Rome, under the guidance of Giorgio
Bassani.
The first two volumes, Nehru’s Autobiografia and Il flagello della
svastica by Lord Russell, Liverpool, appeared 18th June, 1955.
In
1961 the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Institute, together with the library, moved
from N. 35 Via Scarlatti where it had been founded in 1957 to the same
building in Via Andegari, but with its own entrance from N.3 via Romagnosi.
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1955
Rome
8th July, 1955. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli presents Jawaharlal Nehru with the
Italian edition of his Autobiografia. Sitting beside him is his
daughter, Indira Gandhi, who was to lead the Indian government in the future.
The previous April, together with Ciu En Lai, the Indian Prime Minister had
played a leading role at the historic Bandung Conference of the Afro-Asiatic
States. Jawaharlal Nehru was in Rome on a State visit.
  
The
first promotional leaflet of the Publishing House with the logo GGF. Asia
figures in these first publications with Diario di Hiroshima by
Michihiko Hachiya, Il bisturi e la spada . La storia del dottor
Brthune by Sydney Gordon and Ted Allan , La vera storia di AhQ e altri
racconti by Lu Hsun.
"L'Indicatore",
an informative bookstore journal, was edited by EDA (Associated Publishers and
Distributers). Feltrinelli entered the group and, in 1963, formed a merger. In
1955, the first year of activity, the Publishing House brought out twenty
books. The choice of titles is an indication of the features that were to
characterise future publications in four different series.
In the photo (from left) Lord Russell from Liverpool, Albe Steiner,
outstanding personality of postwar graphic art and Luigi Diemoz, editor of the
non-fiction and the history series.
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