Cultura Roma

In the prestigious Borrominiano complex of the ex Oratorio dei Filippini situated in Piazza dell'Orologio, you can find the Casa delle Letterature of Rome, a centre for the citizens entirely dedicated to the Italian and foreign literature of the Nineteenth Century.

The Casa delle Letterature is the result of a cultural activity promoted and carried out in Rome by the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali. It puts together the heritage of the experience formed during these years thanks to the work of the Department of Culture together with the Office for Conventions, Shows and Conferences Office.

It is, in fact the actual seat of this programming sector, the production centre for all scientific, literary and editorial proposals. In this way, the precision of the scientific approach is combined with the availability of making their deductions known to a large part of the City's public.

The institution of the Rome Library provides these permanent services: the library, the newspaper and the periodical library, specialised in Italian and foreign literature of the Nineteenth Century. The office for Conventions - Exhibitions - Conferences avails itself of the co-operation with Italian and foreign institutions, organisations, universities and cultural associations, in the Research and Planning of these projects. This precious network of relationships will be extended further because of the need of an approach to this cultural activity which is both international and inter-disciplinary

The Casa delle Letterature is the place in the city for literature and literature for the city:

• A privileged place for authors and public.
• An area for getting together for groups and tendencies, associations and institutions.
• A centre of interaction between literature, arts and communications.
• An exhibition place, a structure planned for making literary works known to the public.
• A telematic workshop/archive of documentation, conservation and valorisation of the literary heritage of different types.
• A place for reading or surfing on the net, an oasis you can visit, a cultural area in the centre of Rome.
• A free entrance to an entire literary universe.

In Casa delle Letterature you will find:

• A library, which besides the lending and consulting services, offers the possibility of consulting a permanent collection of the Italian and foreign literature of the Nineteenth Century. This library is enriched by funds and special donations (the Giorgio Caproni Library, the Sandro Penna donation, the Giovanni Fredi Fund, part of the historical fund of the National body for Popular and Scholastic Libraries).
• The show-case of editorial novelties, updated all the time.
• The newspaper and periodical library specialised in Italian and foreign literature.
• The Data Bank on CDRom of the principal National Libraries and the Catalogues of the books on the market (Italy, France, England, Germany, Spain, Portugal and the Usa), for a total of over two million bibliographical records - one of the most important international CDRoms of a literal nature of Italian and foreign literature with bibliographical information and electronic editorial texts.

Permanent cultural initiatives:

• Exhibitions, also bibliographical and thematic documentaries and documentaries describing the life and works of major authors in Italian and international culture - exhibitions of artists, painters, sculptors and photographers - musical and theatrical performances, showing films and other activities that present the "literary" mixed with the other languages of cultural communication.
• Workshops and seminaries about writing and reading.