Riva Palacongressi Hosts Book Launch on Trentino Paper Mills History

Major cultural event this morning at 10 a.m. at the Palacongressi di Riva. The presentation of the book “Mulini da carta. Le cartiere dell’Alto Garda – Tini e torchi fra Trento e Venezia” will take place, on an initiative of Cartiere Fedrigoni.

On the occasion of the launch of this brand new publication, following Giuseppe Fedrigoni’s welcoming speech, journalist Piero Ostellino, former director of Corriere della Sera, will speak on “The economy of the Republic of Venice and the Principality of Trento from 1400 to 1800.” Then, it will be the turn of the Benacense researcher Mauro Grazioli (“A history of the paper mills in Riva and the Trentino territory”), Ivo Mattozzi, professor at the University of Bologna (“The paper mills in the Venetian State: a history between structures and conjunctures. 1450 – 1797”), and Ennio Sandal (“Printing and book trade in the Veneto domain and the Trentino Principality”).

The content of the volume and the contributions of the speakers

The volume to be presented includes—besides the speakers’ interventions—contributions from Carlo Simoni, Nadia Olivieri, Antonietta Curci, and Franca Maria Errico, which “summarize some phenomena affecting certain specific territorial realities or families of papermakers and printers. The result is a complex picture that, over more than six centuries, offers an original perspective on the influence of this sector within the social, cultural, and economic fabric between Trento and Venice.”

A context, that of the centuries analyzed, “in which the story of the Fedrigoni family fits, which, partly using capital from the Venice market, in the early 1700s started a paper mill in Rovereto.” A family saga that follows tortuous paths but ultimately will resume the tradition by founding a new paper mill once again.