Valentino Bompiani

Biography

Valentino Silvio Bompiani was a prominent Italian publisher, writer, and playwright. He co-founded Bompiani publishing house in 1929, which became a leading publisher in Italy, and published 17 Nobel Prize winners. A playwright since 1931, his masterwork is considered to be Albertina, written in 1945. He was involved in censorship cases, including a notable controversy over Elio Vittorini's Americana, and collaborated with Mussolini on Mein Kampf translations.