Books at San Giorgio is a series of meetings that presents the latest Fondazione Giorgio Cini publications, usually the outcome of its Institutes’ research activities in various disciplines: art history, 20th-century music, Venetian history, the music of Vivaldi, drama and ethnomusicology. In 2015 the series enter its tenth year. Over the past decade the Fondazione Giorgio Cini has published over 250 publications and has presented 60 of them at these launches (books of essays, art catalogues, critical editions of music and latest issues of magazines). The guest speakers at the presentations are leading figures from the world of culture and offer audiences of specialists and enthusiasts evidence of the vitality and variety of the cultural production on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

The spring series begins on 19 March with Tiziano Terzani’s Guardare i fiori da un cavallo in corsa, and illustrated book edited by Àlen Loreti and published by Rizzoli. This work provides an intimate portrait of the great journalist, who died ten years ago, based on his personal documents kept in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. It reconstructs the world of a free thinker who chose to be a journalist, life explorer and traveller, through his own views, photographs, objects and favourite books.

On 8 April the latest volume in the Saggi e Memorie series will be presented. Founded by the Institute of Art History in 1957, the review now has a revamped graphic look, new cover and layout, and colour illustrations.

Lastly, on Wednesday 16 April, the featured book is the latest volume in the Drammaturgia musicale veneta series, set up in 1984 with the publishers Ricordi under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. This volume is devoted to La Finta Pazza with music by Francesco Paolo Sacrati to libretto by Giulio Strozzi.