ADELPHI EDIZIONI

Adelphi, the publishing house founded in 1962 by Luciano Foà and Roberto Olivetti started its publications in 1963 with a new translation of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Roberto Calasso became editorial director in 1971, and subsequently president and ceo of the company in 1999 until July 2021. Since September 2021 Teresa Cremisi is the President of the board and Roberto Colajanni is the CEO and editorial director. Since the very beginning, the publishing house’s purpose has been to publish books of the highest literary and speculative quality, stretching back to the very distant past.Characteristic of the catalogue is the first critical edition of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Colli and Montinari, which began to be published in 1964, prior even to the same edition appearing in Germany.Among others, the house has published Milan Kundera, James Hillman, Vladimir Nabokov, Leonardo Sciascia, Irène Némirovsky, Georges Simenon, Sándor Márai, Joseph Roth, Elias Canetti, Bruce Chatwin, Jorge L. Borges, Emmanuel Carrère, Carlo Rovelli, Giorgio Manganelli, Tommaso Landolfi, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Anna Maria Ortese.