Books

The book collection, which includes more than 80.000 books, has a profoundly political-historical specialization.

As regard the acquisition, enhancement and recovery of texts, materials and documents, the collection is particularly focused on: study on contemporary history, political and philosophical thought in the end of the 19th century and 20th century, social and economic history of Italy and Europe, contemporary history of Bologna and the Region of Emilia-Romagna. Furthermore, a particular attention is paid to: sources and study on the political thought of the Italian and European Left in the 20th century, on the Italian political and social movements from the post-World War II to the present day and on the political communication and propaganda.

Among the most interesting collections, we highlight the publications on Antonio Gramsci and others written by him; the large collection of pamphlets concerning the birth of the Democratic and Socialist Italian Movement and the political and trade-union Associationism of the Italian Left; the collection of texts on policy, history and publishing which comes from Libreria Palmaverde di Roberto Roversi.

Another significant collection is la ‘collana del Canguro’ of L’Universale economica.

 

Periodicals

The catalogue of periodicals includes more than 1800 periodicals, among Italian and foreign magazines and daily newspapers of historical and philosophical-political interest, of which around 90 are current. You can find them in the Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici ACNP.

A special collection is composed of socialist periodicals of the collection Fondo Luigi Arbizzani.

 

Photos

The collection includes social and political photographs taken mainly from 1945 to 1980s. The photos come from local newspapers (“Il Progresso d’Italia” and “La Lotta”), from the documentary collections of the Italian Communist Party in Bologna; from Fondo Giuseppe Dozza’s collection and from Fondo Luigi Arbizzani’s collection; moreover, you can find a smaller number of photographs in the Fondo Valdo Magnani’s collection and Fondo Guido Fanti’s collection.

The collection includes around 45.000 prints.

 

Audio-visual material

The collection of political and social audio-visual material includes films and documentaries (8, Super8, 16 and 35 mm) produced from the 1950s to the 1980s (around 360 pieces) that come from the Archive of Pci of Bologna and private collections.

The collection of our Foundation is stored in the Cineteca comunale di Bologna. The catalogue is available at the Cineteca (Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Biblioteca Renzo Renzi, Via Azzo Gardino 65/b, 40122 Bologna (tel. 051 2194843 / e-mail: cinetecabiblioteca@cineteca.bologna.it).

Collection of audio-visual materials: 360 pieces. Political and social films and documentaries (8, Super8, 16 and 35 mm) produced from the 1950s to the 1980s coming from the Archive of Pci in Bologna and private collections. They are stored and available at the Cineteca comunale di Bologna.

Audio Archive regarding Archive of Pci of Bologna: 2.036 pieces (512 film bobbins; 1.357 audio tapes; 167 vinyl records). Recording of meetings of the federative bodies of Pci of Bologna, public meetings or events promoted by Pci, speeches of political and cultural local and national personalities happened in Bologna and its territory.

Audio Archive of our Foundation: 485 pieces (99 bobbins; 386 audio tapes); recordings of public meetings and conferences organized by our Foundation between 1981 and 2010.

 

Political posters

Consult Manifestipolitici.it, the online data bank created by the Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna containing 13.000 political and social contemporary manifestos. There are mainly manifestos, but also announcements, posters, leaflets and postcards produced and diss

eminated from the 20th century to the present day.

They come from:

• our collections: the Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna collects around 12.000 political manifestos produced mainly from the 1950s to the present day; leaflets, political postcards and other propaganda papers. Almost half of these are available on the data bank.
• from the collections of other 15 institutes or private collectors that wanted to participate in this online iconographic archive.

The data bank is open to all.

If you – institutes or individuals – own manifestos and are interested in donating or depositing your manifestos or in participating in the project Manifestipolitici.it, please contact the Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna.