Garzanti s.r.l. is an Italian publishing company founded in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, Italy, in 1938. It is known for publishing school textbooks,

dictionaries A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, radical an ...

(such as the ''Dizionari Garzanti''), and

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(''Le Garzantine'').

History

The company was founded by Aldo Garzanti in 1938 by acquiring the publishing house

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, whose editorial activities, in particular the publication of the weekly magazine ''

L'Illustrazione Italiana ''L'Illustrazione Italiana'' was an illustrated Italian weekly subtitled; 'news, public and social life, science, fine arts, geography and travel, theatres, music, fashion.' Based in Milan, the magazine was distributed across Italy and abroad, a ...

'', were continued. In 1961, following the death of the father, Livio Garzanti took over the leadership of the company. The first publication of the ''Dizionari Garzanti'', the first set of Italian dictionaries published by a group of editors instead of a single author, dates back to the same period. In 1995 the company was acquired by UTET, later merged in 2002 with the Gruppo De Agostini.Since 2006, the company is part of the Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol (GeMS).

References

External links

Garzanti official website
1939 establishments in Italy book publishing companies of Italy companies based in Milan Italian brands Italian companies established in 1939 publishing companies established in 1939 publishing companies of Italy {{publish-company-stub