Messina, “May of books” begins: a month a dedicated to promotion

Today begins “May of books”, A month dedicated to the promotion of the book and reading with meetings of presentations, conversations, reading inserted in Messina in the billboard prepared by the municipal administration as part of the campaign promoted by the Ministry of Culture. The world of restoration and conservation of the world of the book is part of the Messina Gloria Bonanno which works at the Regional Center for the design and restoration by dealing with restoration interventions on paper and parchment artifacts, Ercelicca design. But what is the book for Bonanno who possesses skills and passion for his work experienced as a journey into the object but also in the meanings and memories in dizziness. “Each page is an open door towards eras, worlds and different lives – he tells us – the consistency of the paper, the smell of the ink, the sound of the pages browned give the book a tangible soul. Restoring an ancient book is a privilege, travel unexplored ways through the knowledge of techniques and processes, appreciates complexity and understand how many stories are intertwined in it.” In her long journey of restorer of book and archival goods, the coordination of the restoration two volumes of the Mume also dealt with Messinesicon works, made by the winner of the scholarship of the La Pira Foundation; The restoration two rare editions of the Caneizzaro Library (an incunabulum and sevenentin), with a construction site open and that of the letter of S. Ignazio di Loyola created in Montalto in collaboration with the University of Messina. “On the perceptive scale of cultural heritage- the book is often found in the end, because seen as a support and not as an autonomous product of material culture. Librarian goods are not attractively, be underestimated. More space should be given to this sector in terms of economic and human resources. Deferences of competitions, retirements that are not replaced with new hires, create gap for the conservation and, therefore, for the protection and museumization of a book heritage that is instead rich and extensive. A treasure that remains in the rear, but fundamental and preliminary atutta the transmission of knowledge.