Associazione Librai Antiquari d'Italia
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Italy
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, was founded in 1947 as Circolo dei Librai Antiquari.
In spite of a previous attempt, established in the 1880s by Italian jurist Carlo Lozzi and his review Il bibliofilo, the association was created only after the Second World War and it assumed its current name in 1971.
ALAI includes 116 members throughout Italy and its main scope is to promote the knowledge about ancient and rare books, as well as to represent the Italian antiquarian booksellers within the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers is a non-profit umbrella organization of bookseller associations, with its legal location in Geneva, Switzerland. It federates 22 National Associations of Antiquarian Booksellers, representing nearly 2000 dealers in 32 countries...
(ILAB), whose it is a founding member.
The association organizes annually international antiquarian book fairs in Milan
Milan
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, Bologna
Bologna
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and at the Turin International Book Fair
Turin International Book Fair
The Turin International Book Fair is Italy's largest trade fair for books, held annually in mid-May in Turin, Italy....
, and promoted several other cultural events throughout the past years in Florence
Florence
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and Rome
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.
It also hosted five LILA-ILAB Congresses and Presidents' meeting, in Milan
Milan
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(1953), Ravenna
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(1964), Turin
Turin
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(1974), Venice
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(1986), Florence
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(1999) and will host the 39th International Congress in Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
in 2010.
The current President of ALAI is Umberto Pregliasco, elected in 2004 and confirmed in 2006 and 2008.
See also
- Libreria antiquaria BourlotLibreria antiquaria BourlotLibreria antiquaria Bourlot is an historic antiquarian bookshop in Turin, Italy. It was founded in 1848 by Vittorio and Pietro Bourlot in the courtyard of a seventeenth century palace at the Piazza San Carlo. It was owned by the Bourlot family for five generations. In 1947, owner Gian Vittorio...
, whose owner, Gian Vittorio Bourlot, was one of the cofounders of ALAI