Issue 8: The Sixties Issue
176 Pages
21x26cm
2023
English/Anglais

ARCHIVIO no.8 starts with the Autostrada del Sole, a motorway inaugurated in 1964 which runs from Milan to Naples. Valerio Millefoglie, the magazine's editorial director, has travelled that same road encountering evidence of the daily life of an Italy that was changing.
We've made so many archival discoveries: Folco Quilici's unpublished photos shot in Rosarno Calabro and the samples he used for filming the documentary L'Italia vista dal cielo; the board games and the toy soldiers created by Guido Crepax; the poetics applied to life in Giovanni Giudici's diaries.
This issue of ARCHIVIO is special—says Andrea Montorio, CEO of Promemoria Group. It is special because it is the last of a second successful series—an editorial decision (that of changing the editorial team every three years/four issues to experiment with new perspectives and partnerships) that Promemoria took a gamble on and won with this exceptional team and thanks to all our open-minded, discerning, and curious readers. It is also special, however, for me personally, as unlike the last three issues, it tells the story of a decade I did not witness directly, which I have no personal memory of nor emotional ties to, but which conditioned me directly nonetheless.
The inability to draw from personal memory and experience brings us to the higher purpose of ARCHIVIO. A purpose borrowed from historiography and which we seek to pursue, mindful of the importance of truth, but free in our forms of expression, which is to build a dialogue between People and History, connecting the sources of the past and future generations, to uncover what came before us so a