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| Centro Studi Piero Gobetti | |
|---|---|
| Name | Centro Studi Piero Gobetti |
| Founded | 19xx |
| Headquarters | Turin, Italy |
| Focus | Cultural history; archival research; publishing |
Centro Studi Piero Gobetti is an Italian research center and cultural institution based in Turin dedicated to the preservation, study, and promotion of the legacy of Piero Gobetti and related intellectual currents. It operates as an archive, library, publisher, and forum connecting scholars, activists, and institutions across Europe and the Americas. The center engages with historiographical, literary, and political currents through exhibitions, conferences, and digitization projects.
The center was founded in Turin amid postwar reconstruction and has been associated with figures linked to the Risorgimento-era networks such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, and Giovanni Giolitti; intellectuals from the early 20th century like Piero Gobetti (subject omitted from linking), Antonio Gramsci, Benedetto Croce, Gaetano Salvemini; and contemporary historians such as Renzo De Felice, Sergio Romano, Raffaele Romanelli. Its archives and activities reflect intersections with institutions including Università degli Studi di Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino, Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Movimento di Liberazione in Italia, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, and international partners like British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Library of Congress, Biblioteca Nacional de España. Over decades the center has navigated relationships with political movements tied to Fascist Italy, Italian Republic, Italian Socialist Party, Italian Communist Party, and civil society actors such as Anpi and Libera. Directors and collaborators have included scholars connected with Salvatorelli, Carocci Editore, Laterza, Einaudi Editore, and curators allied with museums like Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano and Museo del Risorgimento.
The center's mission foregrounds archival preservation, critical editions, and public programming engaging traditions associated with Piero Gobetti and interlocutors such as Antonio Gramsci, Gaetano Salvemini, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Ugo Spirito, Palmiro Togliatti. Activities include curating exhibitions in collaboration with Museo del Risorgimento, staging conferences tied to universities like Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", and participating in European frameworks such as Horizon 2020, Creative Europe, European Research Council. The center runs seminars that interface with publishers Einaudi, Mondadori, Feltrinelli, Il Mulino and cultural journals such as La Rivista del Centro Studi Piero Gobetti (internal title), Rivista Storica Italiana, Il Mulino Magazine.
Collections encompass personal papers, correspondence, manuscripts, and periodicals related to figures like Piero Gobetti’s contemporaries Antonio Gramsci, Benedetto Croce, Gaetano Salvemini, Palmiro Togliatti, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Ugo Spirito, as well as letters from international figures including Lionel Trilling, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Georges Sorel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Aron. The archive holds periodicals and press clippings from La Rivoluzione Liberale, Il Baretti, Avanti!, La Stampa, Il Corriere della Sera, L'Unità, Il Popolo d'Italia. Holdings include photographic collections connected to Turin Cathedral, Palazzo Madama, ephemera from events such as Biennale di Venezia, correspondence with institutions like Accademia dei Lincei, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and depositions linked to legal archives such as Piazza Fontana materials. The center collaborates on digitization with Europeana, Digital Public Library of America, Gallica, HathiTrust.
The center publishes critical editions, monographs, and edited volumes engaging scholarship on influences from Giovanni Gentile, Ugo Spirito, Carlo Rosselli, Piero Gobetti’s milieu including essays by Norberto Bobbio, Lucio Colletti, Renato Treves, Nicola Tranfaglia, Piero Gobetti’s critics and defenders. It issues thematic series with publishers such as Einaudi, Laterza, Il Mulino, Donzelli, and collaborates on bilingual editions with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Harvard University Press. Research projects have addressed comparative studies linking Italian Risorgimento archives with files from Weimar Republic, Third French Republic, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and transnational networks including International Institute of Social History and Fondation Jean Jaurès.
Educational programs include seminars for students from Università degli Studi di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Scuola Holden, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, and teacher training with regional authorities such as Regione Piemonte, Comune di Torino, Provincia di Torino. Outreach extends to partnerships with cultural festivals like Salone del Libro, Festa del Cinema di Roma, Torino Film Festival, and public lecture series featuring scholars from Università di Cambridge, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Columbia University, New York University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, Università Bocconi. Workshops address archival methods with organizations such as ICA, IIPC, ISKO.
The center is governed by a board including academics affiliated with Università degli Studi di Torino, representatives from Fondazione CRT, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, and cultural figures linked to Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, Fondazione Cariplo. Administrative structures coordinate conservation with Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, legal counsel related to cultural heritage rules under Ministero della Cultura, and grant management for projects funded by Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione CRT, European Commission, Fondazione CRT. Advisory committees include scholars associated with Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea, Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana.
Notable initiatives include digitization efforts with Europeana, editorial collaborations with Einaudi Editore and Laterza, exhibition projects with Museo del Risorgimento, joint conferences with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Università degli Studi di Torino, and transnational research with International Institute of Social History, Fondation Jean Jaurès, British Academy, American Academy in Rome. The center has contributed to documentary films screened at Torino Film Festival and archives used by filmmakers linked to Cineteca Nazionale, Cineteca di Bologna, and has supported theses supervised by faculty at Università degli Studi di Milano, Università di Bologna, Università di Padova, Università di Firenze.
Category:Archives in Italy Category:Cultural organisations based in Turin