ROMANO, Sergio

Les instituts italiens de la culture à l'étranger : une mission impossible? - Paris : IIAP, avril/juin 1982

After the second world war, Italian cultural policy abroad radically changing by discontinuing to serve political window-dressing purposes while upholding, nevertheless, the general trend towards recuperating the great literary and artistic tradition for determining and upbuilding Italian cultural presence worldwide as inherited from the Unità movement. As the authors states, this policy is disctated both by its past and by parallel endeavours by its rivals, in particular the French and German Cultural Centres whose performance is taken as a yardstick for self-evaluation purposes