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Leggere le montagne
Biblioteca Nazionale del Cai – Monte dei Cappuccini
from 21.02.2008 to 07.05.2008
A series of meetings with authors in order to travel – at least on an intellectual level – through far-away and unknown lands. We start off from Rwenzori with a discussion about the days of historical-anthropological study being held in Torino and in Kampala for the exhibit “I popoli della luna” (“The People of the Moon”) created for the centennial of the expedition carried by the Duca degli Abruzzi (on the 21st of February). The second stop of Leggere le montagne (Read the Mountains) focuses in on “Le Alpi” with the presentation of the large 12 volume encyclopedia dictionary set edited by Priuli & Verlucca in 2007. The meeting is also expecting the participation of both the editor as well as the editor of the Italian edition, Enrico Camanni (March 19). The trip continues toward “Il Picco Glorioso” a precious anthology with writings by E .S. Kennedy, D. W. Freshfield, and other alpine climbers, mostly English, edited by Tarara and overseen by the president of the Club Alpino Accademico Italiano (Italian Academic Alpine Club), Giovanni Rossi (on April 2). The fourth stop is made around Monte Rosa, beginning with the book by Eliza Robinson Cole, “Viaggio di una signora intorno al Monte Rosa” (“Trip by a Lady Around Monte Rosa”), Art Point Editions. The narrator of the meeting will be the editor of the Italian edition, Gianluigi Discalzi (April 9). On the 16th of April, we leave again, this time for the Dolomites, led by the alpine climber, photographer, and writer Alessandro Gogna , brought in to present his “Dolomitit e calcari di nordest” (Dolomites and Limestone in the Northeast”), Cda&Vivalda Editions. The sixth and last meeting in the review is with “Le valli italiane delle Alpi Pennine”(“Italian Valleys in the Pennine Alps”) by Samuel William King, Zeisciu Editions, Magenta/Alagna. Present will be the editor of the complete translation, with notes and additions in the typographic style of the period when the book was written (1858), Luigi Garavaglia.
Tel.: (39) 011 660 4104 Museo Nazionale della Montagna
