Five evenings, over 60 events including presentations, readings, workshops for children spread across 8 squares, not only in the historic center but in all five neighborhoods of Florence. The third edition of “Piazze dei Libri – Parole in comune” starts on Tuesday 11 June, organized by Confartigianato Imprese Firenze. Five squares were involved immediately on the first evening: Santa Maria Novella, Repubblica, piazza Strozzi, via de’ Cerretani and piazza delle Cure. “A widespread and decentralized book event”, underlined this morning at a press conference by the President of Confartigianato Firenze Serena Vavolo who recalled “the great work done for the diffusion of culture, with Piazze dei Libri and with Firenze Books which will reach its fourth edition in October”.
There are 13 bookshops involved, both independent and chain: Alfani, Farollo e Falpalà, Feltrinelli, Florida, Gioberti (Libreria Lagioberti Km0, Libreria La Gioberti, Libreria Gioberti), Giunti Odeon, Jane and Edward, Leggeggermente, Libraccio, Malaparte, Polistampa . “We have built a perfect synergy. Bookshops – noted Vavolo – are businesses with a strong social value. They are all a garrison in our neighborhoods and districts and each of us is fond of ‘his’ bookshop. Confartigianato – added the president – contributes, like every year, to the success of the Fiorentina Estate and in creating the Piazza di Libri we reconnect to the great all-Florentine tradition of grassroots and artisan publishing and of the independent bookshops which have however made history . It is the artisan dimension of culture that we want to protect.”
“A Florentine summer that opens under the banner of culture and reading with the third edition of Piazze dei Libri – said the deputy mayor and councilor for culture Alessia Bettini -. An initiative that confirms the common commitment to spreading the power of books as a tool for growth and social comparison, but also the firm desire to bring culture to all citizens in every corner of the city and to support and enhance the enormous heritage represented from Florentine bookshops, real social centers increasingly capable of creating opportunities for meeting and exchange, as well as cultural enrichment”.
Precisely because squares are a meeting place, there are a variety of genres and authors. Wednesday 12 La pita dei wolves (Mondadori) by Ben Pastor in SMN at 9pm. Thursday 13 June at 7pm in Piazza Elia dalla Costa there is Bella prof (Edizioni Erasmo) by Paolo Boschi, while at 9pm in Dalmatia there is space for Tangerin (E /O) by Emanuela Anechoum. Friday 14th at 9pm in SMN Benedetta Tobagi presents The massacres are all a mystery (Laterza); again on Friday 14th at 9pm in Piazza dell’Isolotto there is Nicoletta Verna with I giorni di Vetro (Einaudi); Saturday 15th in via de ‘Cerretani 9pm Carlotta Vagnoli and her Nocturnal animals (Einaudi); On Wednesday 13th in Piazza Dalmazia, however, there will be an opportunity to discover the all-Florentine publishing house, Clichy. This year, “Florence reading in the Piazza dei Libri – The Book Party is in the city” is also planned: it will involve taking your book to the square, sitting down to read in silence for the first half hour and half an hour. Next time anyone who wants can make a small intervention on their reading (a short comment, reading a page aloud, starting from 6.00pm). And since Florence will be a stage, a cycle of events will also focus on the “French-Florentine” Tour de France.
“Piazze dei Libri” is a project by Confartigianato Imprese Firenze, co-financed by the Municipality of Florence, as part of the Florentine Summer 2024 – an initiative proposed in the Operational Plan of the City of Florence.
Full program: https://www.confartigianatofirenze.it/le-piazze-dei-libri-2024-il-programma/
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