Valentino Bompiani

Valentino Silvio Bompiani (27 September 1898 – 23 February 1992) was an Italian publisher, writer and playwright.

[1] Born in Ascoli Piceno (Marche), he entered in the publishing world as a secretary working for Arnoldo Mondadori in 1922.

He was involved in a number of censorship cases, one of which was related to Elio Vittorini's Americana (published in 1942),[3] and was viewed as anti-Fascist, though he was willing to collaborate for financial reasons, unlike other publishers such as Editori Laterza and Giulio Einaudi Editore.

In 1933, Mussolini acquired the rights to an Italian translation of Mein Kampf; after Arnoldo Mondadori Editore refused, Bompiani accepted the offer in July 1933.

He also wrote about his activities as a publisher in Via privata (1971), Dialoghi a distanza (1986) and Il mestiere dell’editore (1988).