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Libreria Bozzi is the oldest 
bookshop
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People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, book people, bookmen, or bookwomen.
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The foundi ...
in Italy
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. The bookshop is situated in via Cairoli in Genoa
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History
The bookshop was founded by a Jewish French refugee fromBriançon
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, Antone Beuf (Antonio Beuf), in 1810.
The bookshop was visited in the 19th century by the writers Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, , ), was a French writer. Best known for the novels ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' ('' The Red and the Black'', 1830) and ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' ('' T ...
, Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher.
He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...
, Charles Dickens
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, Herman Melville
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and Henry James
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After Mario Bozzi's death, the bookshop passed to his son Tonino, who was president of the Italian Booksellers Association for 12 years. To this day, the bookshop incorporates a portion of the ancient cloister of the Church of San Siro, whose columns and even the remains of a Turkish bath are still visible.
See also
*Books in Italy
Italy is the home of two of the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Messaggerie Italiane and Mondadori Libri. Other large publishers include De Agostini Editore, Feltrinelli and the RCS MediaGroup.
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