Armando Dadò Editore
| Armando Dadò Editore SA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1961 |
| Seat |
Locarno TI Switzerland
|
| management | Armando Dadò ( Chairman of the Board and Delegate) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.editore.ch |
The Armando Editore Dadò SA is a Swiss publishing house based in Locarno .
The focus of the publishing activities is the publication of prose from Italian-speaking Switzerland , corresponding Italian translations from Swiss literature, non-fiction books on cultural, historical, political, economic or current topics of the canton of Ticino as well as the whole of Switzerland as well as biographies , in particular of personalities with reference to the Ticino. In total, Armando Dadò Editore has published more than 700 titles since its inception.
history
The publishing house has its roots in the “Tipografia Stazione” in Locarno, which was founded in 1961 as a printing company . Through her acquaintance with the Ticino poet and wood carver Giovanni Bianconi, she entered the publishing industry a short time after its foundation under the direction of Armando Dadò. In 1965, Giovanni Bianconi's Artigianati scomparsi, a book about the crafts that had disappeared in Ticino, was the first work. As a result, a close friendship developed between the two, which strongly influenced the further course of the publishing activities and led to numerous other books by Giovanni Bianconi.
The collaboration with Giovanni Bianconi's brother, Piero Bianconi, who created various works on cultural and cultural-historical life in Ticino, such as Occhi sul Ticino and Ticino com'era , was just as important . The books on Ticino identity formed a focus of the publishing program in the 1970s.
From the 1980s the publisher began to publish its first thematic book series . These initially dealt with Ticino, but were later expanded to include translations across Switzerland, among other things. Today these book series include works by numerous Ticino authors as well as works by Karl Viktor von Bonstetten , Samuel Butler , Karl Kerényi , Victor Hugo and Hugo Loetscher .
In addition, other book series were brought into being, including those that have no real reference to Ticino or Switzerland, including a classic series, The Book of Job , the Gospel , Voltaire's treatise on tolerance, Alessandro Manzoni's Storia della Colonna Infame, Die Includes Lamentation of Peace by Erasmus of Rotterdam and other works.