{"id":17177,"date":"2026-01-26T08:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=17177"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:12:07","slug":"una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/","title":{"rendered":"Una Montagna di Libri: an interview with founder Francesco Chiamulera"},"content":{"rendered":"The beating heart of the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cortina has long been a destination for personalities connected to the world of culture, who have found an inexhaustible source of inspiration in the Ampezzo setting. Since 2009, <em>Una Montagna di Libri<\/em> has been bringing together authors, who take part in meetings organised during the winter and summer months. The edition preceding and accompanying the Olympic Games is just as intense. We talked about it with the founder of the festival, Francesco Chiamulera.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Cortina is one of the protagonists of the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but since 2009 it has also been home to <em>Una Montagna di Libri<\/em>. How does the event interact with the Olympic Games? <\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<em>Una Montagna di Libri<\/em> has chosen to accompany the months of waiting for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games with a wonderful journey through sport, but above all through the lives and stories of the athletes. We have avoided \u201cpanels\u201d and round tables with too many institutional roles, and focused entirely on the exciting history of bobsleigh (with the Bob Club Cortina), the downhill and giant slalom races of Kristian Ghedina, Deborah Compagnoni, Paolo De Chiesa, Ren\u00e9 De Silvestro and Luca Palla, with Olympic memories magically collected by Massimo Spampani and Andrea Goldstein. With profiles of the great skiers brought to life by Aldo Cazzullo. With the exciting story of the skaters and timekeepers of Cortina \u201856 \u2012 in short, the women of the Olympics at that time \u2012 narrated by Antonella Stelitano and Adriana Balzarini with champion Manuela Angeli, who flew across the ice back then. Antonella Palmisano told us about her gold medal in Tokyo 2020. Massimo Zanella and Vittorio Linfante took us on a journey through the beauty and design of winter.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>How has Cortina changed over the years, not only as a destination for sports enthusiasts, but above all as a cultural hub? For over a century, it has been a crossroads for personalities linked to the world of culture who have found inspiration here. <\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThis has always been Cortina\u2019s great difference, its strong point, compared to other equally magnificent locations in the Alps. Writers, artists, visionaries and journalists have gathered in the Ampezzo Valley. Taking advantage of the enchanting location, both isolated and connected between several borders, ideas have come together. Publishers have signed publishing agreements with authors such as Ernest Hemingway. Parise, Buzzati and Comisso were regulars, as was the great Cesare De Michelis. Saul Bellow and Edward Morgan Forster set their stories and novellas there. And today, from Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum to Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, Javier Cercas, Alessandro Piperno and Giovanni Montanaro, contemporary writers continue to choose it. And to love it. We celebrate them through the first widespread museum of literature in the Alps: <a href=\"http:\/\/accaddeacortina.it\/\">accaddeacortina.it<\/a>.<br \/>\r\n<h2>UNA MONTAGNA DI LIBRI IN CORTINA<\/h2><br \/>\r\n<strong>How has <em>Una Montagna di Libri<\/em> helped define Cortina\u2019s identity? <\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nCortina didn\u2019t need us to define its identity, but we wanted to continue to protect and expand the role of the Ampezzo Valley as a cosmopolitan crossroads. <em>Una Montagna di Libri<\/em> has been here for sixteen years, with tireless enthusiasm, never missing a single season, and year after year, with seventy events between summer and winter, we accompany life in the Dolomites, ensuring that readers and authors continue to meet in the shadow of the Tofane mountains. There are so many of them.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>What impact do you hope the Olympic Games will have on Cortina, and on the Ampezzo area in general, from a socio-cultural point of view? <\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nI hope and believe that they will bring more infrastructure to our mountains. Not just roads, which we need anyway, because it\u2019s not right that it takes two hours to get to the nearest hospital: while we wait for the railway network to be upgraded, residents in the mountains still need to be able to get around in their own cars. Not just healthcare facilities themselves, starting with the Codivilla hospital in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo. But also the very way of life in the mountains. With a contemplation nourished by affection and respect, with the pragmatism of understanding that people\u2019s needs are many and varied. There are those who love skiing and have the right to continue doing so, given that this is a key industry for our mountains, and in the same way there is the varied and beautiful world of new sports, in the silence of a climb, in the pursuit of health, in a different relationship with nature. I believe and hope that these games will write a new page in the eternal imagery that Cortina, a city of holidays and nostalgia, has created around itself.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Interview by Arianna Testino<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":16993,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-17177","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Una Montagna di Libri: an interview with founder Francesco Chiamulera - Marsilio Arte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Una Montagna di Libri offers readers the opportunity to participate in a busy calendar of events in both winter and summer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Una Montagna di Libri: an interview with founder Francesco Chiamulera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Una Montagna di Libri offers readers the opportunity to participate in a busy calendar of events in both winter and summer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marsilio Arte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-26T07:12:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Estate-2022.-Courtesy-Una-Montagna-di-Libri.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"801\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/\",\"name\":\"Una Montagna di Libri: an interview with founder Francesco Chiamulera - Marsilio Arte\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Estate-2022.-Courtesy-Una-Montagna-di-Libri.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-26T07:07:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-26T07:12:07+00:00\",\"description\":\"Una Montagna di Libri offers readers the opportunity to participate in a busy calendar of events in both winter and summer\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/una-montagna-di-libri-interview-francesco-chiamulera\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Estate-2022.-Courtesy-Una-Montagna-di-Libri.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Estate-2022.-Courtesy-Una-Montagna-di-Libri.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":801,\"caption\":\"Estate 2022. 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