Le Lettere is an Italian publishing house based in

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, founded in 1976 by publisher Federico Gentile, son of the philosopher

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History

It was founded in 1976 by the publisher Federico Gentile (

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1904 -

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/ref>), who worked for a long time at Sansoni, the Florentine publishing house bought by his father, the philosopher Giovanni. When in 1975 the historic Sansoni was bought by Rizzoli, Gentile decided to found "Le Lettere" with his son Giovanni (who shared the name with his grandfather), specializing it in university literary publications: more than 1500 books divided into forty series, from history to poetry, from art to fiction. The company also publishes eighteen specialized periodicals including '' Giornale critico della filosofia italiana'', '' Lingua nostra'', '' La Rassegna della letteratura italiana'', the annual bulletins of the

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. Many books previously published by Sansoni have been republished by the publishing house, which also published Giovanni Gentile's ''Opera Omnia'', completed in 1999. Since 1994 it has taken over from

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in the publication of the works of

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on behalf of the ''

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'' ("Italian Dante Society"). The company has series of

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, and

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

References

External links

Le Lettere at the Enciclopedia Italiana

Le Lettere official website
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