Fondo Camilleri, an archive of 120 folders including scripts and letters

An archive that is a precious treasure chest, open to the public, with 120 folders to contain 60 directories and essays, 30 theatrical scripts, 300 screenplays and adaptations for radio and TV as well as subjects for cinema; as well as posters, reviews, stage photos, mostly unpublished poems, correspondence with writers and directors, family letters. All this is the Andrea Camilleri Fund, inaugurated today in Rome in via Corridoni, a short distance from what was once his private house in the Prati district, in the Rai ‘quadrilateral’ between the viale Mazzini headquarters, the TV production center. in via Teulada, the Teatro delle Vittorie in via Col di Lana and the Radio Rai headquarters in via Asiago, where the initiative was presented with the interventions of the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, the mayor of Rome Capital Roberto Gualtieri, the president of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti, of Antonio Sellerio representing the publishing house that published the novels of the Sicilian writer, creator of the literary and television character of Inspector Montalbano, as well as the closest family members of Andrea Camilleri. The Camilleri Fund – conceived and designed by the writer himself – is now born with the declared intention of “protecting his cultural heritage, to offer itself as an identity space for the knowledge of his work as a writer, theater and radio author, director, intellectual and public figure “. “A gift to the country, to the world of culture and to all Italians”, commented Minister Franceschini, recalling “the beautiful chats in his house, of literature and politics, always with great passion and critical force. In his head he had a universe, an infinite sea: it is a pity that we cannot ‘archive’ his mind with its memories and reflections … “, commented the owner of the Mic.” A gift to the city of Rome and to all of Italy – he did echo the mayor Gualtieri – available to the scientific and university community as well as to the wider one of simple readers, passionate about culture and literature, for those who want to get even closer to the figure of this great intellectual, Italian and European, Sicilian and also Roman “. For the regional governor Zingaretti,” today we are celebrating yet another act of love for the thought, life and literary work of Andrea Camilleri. It does not happen often, especially in recent times, to have intellectuals with finely critical reflections and great popularity. Camilleri had a purity of thought flanked by a civic passion, which made him free in every manifestation of him “. (Di Enzo Bonaiuto)