Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade: Publishers, Agents, and the State (1900-1947)

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Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
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List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: A Copyright Revolution
	The Historiographical Debate
	The Law and the Archive
	The Structure of the Book
Chapter 2: Modernisation, Professionals, Copyright: Preconditions for the Italian Translation Industry
	Publishing as a Cultural Industry: Britain, the United States, and Italy
	The Professionalisation of Publishing and the Literary Agent
	1886, 1892: International Copyright and Translation Rights in Italy
Chapter 3: Intellectual Networks, Professional Societies, Translators: The “Informal Agents” of Laterza, Bemporad, and Sonzogno
	The Intellectual Networks of Giovanni Laterza
	Bemporad and the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori
	Sonzogno’s Translators as Literary Agents
Chapter 4: Direct Contacts and Delegation: the Shifting Strategies of Arnoldo Mondadori
	Arnoldo Mondadori and the Translation Market in the 1920s
	Channelling Works of English-Speaking Writers: An Analysis of the Readers’ Reports
	An Experiment in Archival Triangulation: Mondadori, Helicon, and the ALI
	A Transnational Mediator: “Mr. Montano, Reader of the Casa Mondadori”91
Chapter 5: The Rise of the Italian Literary Agent: Helicon and the Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale
	British, US, and Continental Literary Agents
	From Publishers, for Publishers: Helicon and the Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale
	Translation Rights in Fascist Italy: Authors’ Interests and Censorial Constraints
Chapter 6: Publishers’ Agencies: Helicon, Ulisse, and the New York Branch of Einaudi
	Mondadori’s Swiss Enterprise: The Second Helicon
	“What Is Happening on the Other Side”: The New York Branch of Einaudi
	Ulisse, Between Theatre and Archival Silences
Chapter 7: Translation Rights Matter: Wartime Cultural Diplomacy and the Italian Book Trade
	Restoring the Italian Translation Industry: the Rome Embassy and the British Council (1945–1946)
	The Central Office of Information and Translation Rights (1946–1947)
	Translation Rights to US works: the Rome Embassy and the United States Information Service
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards a Transnational History of the Translation Rights Trade
Bibliography
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	Published Works
	Translations and Source Texts Referred to in the Book
Index