Marietti Editori

Description

The history of Marietti started in Turin in 1820, when Giacinto Marietti opened a library in the same building where the University had its base, and then, in 1825, he opened a printing works. The publication of school textbooks was supervised by experts belonging to the Jesuit order and the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
In 1861, the year of Giacinto's death, Pope Pius IX granted the company a licence for printing, and its name was changed to Editrice Tipografica della Santa Sede e della Congregazione dei Riti (Printing Press of the Holy Seat and of the Sacred Congregation of Rites). Pietro, who followed his father as head of the company, was invited to Rome in 1865 to manage the Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana (the Vatican's Multilingual Printing Press). The activities of both companies ran in parallel, as they both published primarily religious and lithurgical works, but also school textbooks.
In 1909, Pietro's son, Edoardo, furthered his father's and grandfather's legacy and opened the Marietti publishing house in Turin. The company's premises were destroyed during air raids in 1942, but they were rebuilt in Casale Monferrato after the end of the Second World War.
During the 1980s, Marietti had to face a crisis which was affecting the Italian publishing sector at the time. The publisher, which had always been a family- run business, became a joint-stock company, and in 1986 the main offices were moved to Genoa.
In the 1990s, the catalogue of the publisher was expanded. Then, in 2001 it was acquired by a company based in Milan. Marietti's main offices also moved to Milan. Finally, in 2017, Marietti was acquired by the Centro Editoriale Dehoniano, a catholic publishing house based in Bologna, which is the current location of Marietti's headquarters.