Giulio Einaudi
Giulio Einaudi ( January 2, 1912 in Dogliani; † 5 April 1999 in Magliano Sabina ) was an Italian publisher and founder of the publishing house Einaudi.
Family
Giulio Einaudi was born in Dogliani, the son of Ida Pellegrini and Luigi Einaudi, who later became President of the Republic of Italy ( 1948-1955 ). His son is the composer Ludovico Einaudi.
Life
Einaudi visited the Massimo d'Azeglio High School in Turin and studied literature at Augusto Monti, a dedicated opponent of fascism. Against the wishes of his father, to complete a medical degree, he soon turned to journalism. In 1933 he founded with friends, Massimo d' Azeglio all graduates of the Gymnasium, the publisher Giulio Einaudi Editore, based in Turin. The publishing emblem, a bird Strauss, he took over from the magazine " Cultura ", whose Chefradakteur he was when the magazine was banned in 1935 by the Fascist government. To his former friends were Leone Ginzburg, Massimo Mila, Norberto Bobbio, Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, and later, the woman Leone Ginzburg and Giaime Pintor, journalist and writer, translator of German literature and resistance fighter against fascism. The newly established publishing company soon attracted the attention of the secret police themselves. On 15 May 1935 he was " " imprisoned Giustizia e libertà together with his friends and then banished from Turin, but was able to resume from 1936 along with Ginzburg and Pavese the publishing work, he brought, among other things, the series "because of cooperation with the Turin group Poets ", edited by Eugenio Montale out.
On September 8, 1943, the publishing work came to a standstill: Leone Ginzburg was arrested on 20 November in Rome, spent in jail " Regina Coeli ", where he died on 5 February. The then only 24 years Giaime Pintor, also came to when he wanted to join a group of partisans. Giulio Einaudi went on for some time in Switzerland, where he made contact with fellow American authors, but then went back to Italy and joined in the Aosta Valley, a resistance group. In 1944 he was sent to Rome, where he met for the first time in Togliatti. About Togliatti be developed contacts with other cadres of the Communist Party.
1945 took the Einaudi publishing house back to work and he brought the first edited by Vittorini, just two years existing magazine " Il Politecnico " out. Vittorini discovered and promoted many young authors whose first publication was concerned by Einaudi. The young Italian authors included, inter alia, Carlo Cassola, Beppe Fenoglio, Mario Rigoni Stern, Anna Maria Ortese, Lalla Romano.
It succeeded Einaudi, many important authors, most anti-fascists, to bind to its publisher, he published works by Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg and Luciano Foà. Between 1947 and 1951 he published Antonio Gramsci's " Lettere dal carcere " ( prison letters ) and " Quaderni " ( Prison Notebooks ). In 1949 Giulio Bollati in the publishing house, which soon Co-Director and then Director General was and who extended the contacts between the publisher and authors Norberto Bobbio, Massimo Mila, Antonio Giolitti, Franco Venturi and Carlo Muscetta.
A second focus of his publishing company was the translations of international authors into Italian. In Einaudi published works of Bertolt Brecht, Jean Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann, Jorge Luis Borges and Robert Musil. 1946 published by Einaudi, the first volume of Proust's " In Search of Lost Time " in a translation by Natalia Ginzburg.
Today, the publisher is part of the Mondadori Guppe Silvio Berlusconi.