La promozione della lettura in Italia e il ruolo del Centro per il libro

Abstract

The article describes origins, evolution, strategies and targets of the Centro per il libro e la lettura, the Italian most important institution regarding reading promotion. After a reflection about the critic situation of reading promotion in Italy and its cultural and social reasons compared to other European nations, the article describes what the Centro has done to improve reading promotion, in order to overcome the existing initatives fragmentations in order to realize organic operations of reading promotion.