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Fratelli Fabbri Editori is a publishing house founded in 1947 by brothers Giovanni, Dino and Ettore 'Rino' Fabbri. Coming from a family of small bourgeois merchants Forlivesi, the brothers Fabbri started with little more than a love for art and culture inherited from their father Ottavio.

The eldest, Giovanni, just graduated from medical school joined the partisan of the Val d'Ossola. After the war, preferring books to the medical profession, he decided to take up a career of the editor, managing to involve his brothers.

The "Brothers Fabbri Editori" found immediate success printing text books for schools and, later, became the leading publisher in this area. They took a leap in the quality of printing to publish regular, large classical works such as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Bible". The approval of the public encouraged them, and at the end of the fifties remain in the history of publishing with works such as "Masterpieces in the Centuries" and, particularly, "The Masters of Color."

In the sixties, "Fratelli Fabbri Editori" reached the height of fame by proposing the illustrated encyclopedia "Knowing" that entered the homes of millions of Italians. The encyclopedia was sold in bound volumes, with payment by installments. During those years, the publishing house sold approximately a billion and a half books, published in dozens of countries and translated into 14 languages, including the 'Hindi, Urdu, l'Afrikaans, Turkish and Bulgarian.

They are also the first publisher to place on the Italian market multimedia products; producing the new series "The Stories of Sound" and "The History of Music, which combines the book and the record, addressing issues unknown at the time. For example, for "The History of Music" in order to fall within the standard packaging industry, they commissioned Philips to produce 10 million of the LP Special, of 20 centimeters in diameter.

Towards the end of the sixties, due to the saturation of the market and social unrest, the brothers Dino and Rino sold their shares to engage in other activities abroad, thwarted by the refusal of the elder brother.

In 1971 the 'Istituto Finanziario Industriale (IFI), the financial house "Lambs", purchased 53% of the shares of Fabbri Editors. Dino & Rino relocated abroad, but Giovanni remained on as chairman; the operational role entrusted to Piero Stucchi Prinetti, acting as managing director.

Towards the end of the Seventies, Giovanni Fabbri entered the viewfinder of the Red Brigades and decided to move to Lugano, Switzerland, where he resides today. Rino Fabbri chose Paraguay. Dino Fabbri died following a long illness of ALS on '10 December 2001 at his home in Aventura, Florida.

The "Brothers Fabbri Editori," now form the "Gruppo RCS - Rizzoli Corriere della Sera", and continues to be active in the publishing of textbooks and publications. With the spread of 'home-video (especially with the arrival of the DVD) Fabbri concluded agreements that allow it to distribute through the network of kiosks a monographic series on actors (such as the series of films of 007) and collections of the movies of Alberto Sordi and Gilberto Govi(directors and genres of film). This translations is true to the original Italian version:1