Edizioni Bietti

Edizioni Bietti is a publishing house based in Milan, Italy, founded in 1870 by printer Angelo Bietti. It has published classic authors and evolved over time, with recent leadership changes and new series.

The publishing house Bietti was born in Milan in 1870, by the will of a printer: Angelo Bietti. At the beginning of the 20th century it was a big publisher of great classics – Verne, Dumas, Dostoevskij, even the first edition of the Zingarelli. In the 1960s it became a national point of reference, also thanks to the publication of P.G. Wodehouse. Then, as happens to everyone, it changes, goes into crisis, falls, gets up, evolves. At the end of the 1990s Federico Milesi arrives, who takes over the property and entrusts the direction to Valerio Riva. At the beginning of 2000, Federico passes the baton to his son Carlo, who takes it with fearless enthusiasm and shares it with his lifelong friend, Tommaso Piccone, more fearless than him. The idea is to become princes of the village rather than citizens in the empire, specializing and working with chisel, on the one hand preserving the heritage of the publishing house, on the other increasing the range of cultural action. For this reason, some historical series are maintained, such as Documenti Bietti Storia, Biblioteca Bietti – which becomes a flywheel for the promotion of science fiction and fantastoria thanks to an excellent parterre of local authors – and Caleidoscopio, entrusted since 2019 to one of the authors of the stable, Massimiliano Scuriatti. And new series and magazines are created: since 2010 Heterotopia, dedicated to the Seventh art – relaunched in 2014 by its new editorial directors Claudio Bartolini and Ilaria Floreano – followed from 2015 by the magazine INLAND. Quaderni di cinema (founded and led by Bartolini), from 2018 the paper series I Libri di INLAND and from...

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