Silvio Berlusconi Editore is a prominent Italian publishing house, and has two completely different historical stations in the process of the Italian book industry. It was first established in 1987 as an independent publishing house founded by the businessman and late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to support his media empire. Then it was acquired by the giant Mondadori Group in 1994 and remained active until it completely stopped operating in 2012. As for the second and most prominent station, it was inMid-2024, when the Mondadori Group (headed by Marina Berlusconi, Silvio's daughter) decided to relaunch the house again as an innovative and vibrant publishing brand bearing the name of the group's historical founder in memory of his legacy and philosophy.The intellectual line of the house in its new guise is based on a special focus on promoting liberal and democratic thought and defending the concept of freedom in its broadest manifestations and its cognitive and political diversities. The current management of the house is keen to assert a completely independent and strict identity that separates its cultural material from any form of affiliation, partisanship, or direct political mobilization, which allows it to be a free arena for publishing solid philosophical literature and the intellectual biographies of major international writers from intellectual stripes.Diverse principles that come together around the principles of freedom, democracy, and management of modern societies.
The production strategy of the house in its modern version is divided into issuing a limited and carefully selected number of titles annually, which are distributed through two main series: the "Biblioteca" series and the "Libera" series. The Library series focuses on reviving and translating major classic masterpieces that have stood the test of time and shaped human consciousness; While the “Al Hurra” series is concerned with attracting and offering businessesContemporary authors and thinkers who address hot issues, current events, and complex files that occupy the world and contemporary politics at the present time.
The house launched its global commercial launch in September 2024 by issuing three major books at once that clearly reflected its philosophy. The first and most prominent of which was the book On Leadership: The Art of Governance by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which was published simultaneously with its English version. This contemporary version is integrated with two books fromThe classic thought in the library series are the book “The Death of Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century” by the French historian François Foret, and the book “Letters on the English” by the French philosopher Voltaire, which was translated into Italian for the first time, confirming the house’s position as a major tributary of free thought under the umbrella of the largest publishing conglomerates in Europe.
