Giulio Einaudi (ˈdʒuljo eiˈnaudi) (January 2, 1912 – April 5, 1999) was one of the most important publishers in Italian

Italy

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Biography

Giulio Einaudi was born in Dogliani

Dogliani

Dogliani is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km southeast of Turin and about 35 km northeast of Cuneo....

 (Province of Cuneo

Province of Cuneo

ayr is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ....

) in 1912, the son of Luigi Einaudi

Luigi Einaudi

Luigi Einaudi , Cavaliere di Gran Croce decorato di Gran Cordone OMRI was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the second President of the Italian Republic between 1948 and 1955.-Early life:...

, future president of the Italian Republic

President of the Italian Republic

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, and his wife Ida.

He attended the Massimo d'Azeglio liceo classico

Liceo classico

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, and became a student of noted anti-fascist

Italian Fascism

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 Augusto Monti

Augusto Monti

Augusto Monti was an Italian writer and professor.Strenuous opposer of fascism since its beginning, he was imprisoned by the regime...

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On November 15, 1933 he founded his own publishing house, Giulio Einaudi Editore, located on the third floor of Via Arcivescovado 7 in Turin

Turin

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 (the same building that had hosted Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci

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's Ordine Nuovo

Ordine Nuovo

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). After working 64 years in the publishing business, he retired on September 4, 1997, aged 85.

Giulio Einaudi died in 1999, aged 87.

His son is the pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian contemporary music composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Turin, Italy, Einaudi's mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982...

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