Beautiful Bologna
“It is not because Italy is maybe the most beautiful country in the world, not because Italian cuisine and wine are among the best in the world. It is not because we will visit the Biblioteca Malatestiana with its enchained incunables and plenty of unknown small treasures of art, having also the chance to reach easily places like Florence or Venice, if we wish. The real reason for which we should come to Bologna is that all of us need and have to rediscover the sense of belonging to our association. We need to forget the websites, the emails and the virtual reality for a moment and to meet each other; talk together; and drink in good company one or two glasses of Sangiovese. The ILAB must be considered as a real “Internationale” of the love for books and culture, which rejects any difference of race, nation, religion, with a Code of Ethics, its own traditions and history, gathering different people and cultures under the motto – which says it all – Amor Librorum Nos Unit.”
Umberto Pregliasco
