Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Glass-and-timber foundation echoing Lombardy farm barns, housing a historical library and archive.
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This guide to the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan opens in Berlin in 1956, when a smuggled manuscript of Doctor Zhivago reaches a young Italian publisher willing to defy Moscow to print it. It follows Feltrinelli through the fallout with the Kremlin, his expulsion from the Communist Party, and the radical turn his life took across the 1960s, from meeting Fidel Castro to going underground under an alias. The glass-and-timber building around you, echoing old Lombardy farm barns, houses the library he built from that one act of defiance.
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