Barbanera

Barbanera is an Italian almanac that was first printed in 1762 and is still published annually today.

Content

The Barbanera has been published as a wall calendar and pocket almanac since the first editions. In addition to the calendar for the current year, it also contains weather forecasts , information on the phases of the moon and ephemeris , cooking recipes, curiosities, proverbs and tips for home, garden and health.

Long-term success

Because of its popularity, the most important Italian dictionaries give the Barbanera as a synonym for almanac. He is an indispensable part of the lives of generations of Italians who let him guide them in questions of religion and other matters. For centuries it also served to disseminate technical knowledge relating to agriculture.

Gabriele D'Annunzio described him as "the prime of time and the wisdom of peoples".

Barbanera in the "Memory of the World" Unesco world document heritage

With the almanac collection of the Fondazione Barbanera 1762, the Barbanera has been part of the world document heritage since 2015 as part of the UNESCO program " Memory of the World ". It stands there as "a symbol of a literary genre that has contributed to creating a mass culture and an identity-creating cultural heritage for entire peoples until more modern forms of mass communication have emerged".

Individual evidence

↑ Some sources, such as the Treccani dictionary , give 1743 as the first year of publication. The oldest copy that has survived to this day, which is kept in the archives of the Fondazione Barbanera 1762 (Barbanera Foundation), is a single sheet from 1762 on which the calendar of that year and a forecast of Barbanera are printed, which, according to Ivo Picchiarelli, was already at that time was considered "famous". (cf. “I primi passi di una tradizione italiana. I più antichi Lunari Barbanera in folio”. In: Fondazione Barbanera 1762 (ed.): “Barbanera 1762”. Editoriale Campi, Spello, 2012. p. 72)
^ See the letter from D'Annunzio to the parish priest of Gardone Riviera dated February 24, 1934, which is kept in the Fondazione Vittoriale degli italiani and from Attilio Mazza in "D'Annunzio e l'occulto", Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome, 1995, p. 29 is cited.
↑ The “Memory of the World” program has included the collection of 356 Barbanera almanacs, which were published between 1762 and 1962 and are kept in the Fondazione Barbanera in 1762 in Spello , Umbria , in its register. The collection can be viewed in the digital library of the Barbanera Foundation .
↑ See UNESCO Official Website, Memory of the World Program .

[1] Some sources, such as the Treccani dictionary , give 1743 as the first year of publication. The oldest copy that has survived to this day, which is kept in the archives of the Fondazione Barbanera 1762 (Barbanera Foundation), is a single sheet from 1762 on which the calendar of that year and a forecast of Barbanera are printed, which, according to Ivo Picchiarelli, was already at that time was considered "famous". (cf. “I primi passi di una tradizione italiana. I più antichi Lunari Barbanera in folio”. In: Fondazione Barbanera 1762 (ed.): “Barbanera 1762”. Editoriale Campi, Spello, 2012. p. 72)

[2] See the letter from D'Annunzio to the parish priest of Gardone Riviera dated February 24, 1934, which is kept in the Fondazione Vittoriale degli italiani and from Attilio Mazza in "D'Annunzio e l'occulto", Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome, 1995, p. 29 is cited.

[3] The “Memory of the World” program has included the collection of 356 Barbanera almanacs, which were published between 1762 and 1962 and are kept in the Fondazione Barbanera in 1762 in Spello , Umbria , in its register. The collection can be viewed in the digital library of the Barbanera Foundation .

[4] See UNESCO Official Website, Memory of the World Program .