As part of the sixty-first edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, Thursday, June 28, 2018, from 9:30 am, the headquarters of the local Section of the State Archives (Largo Ermini) will host the opening of an exhibition, the presentation of a book and a conference on the theme: Spoleto 1959. The Second Festival of Two Worlds. The initiative takes place in collaboration with Umbria’s Order of Journalists and under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto, the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, the Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Rocca Albornoz – Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto and Amici di Spoleto association. Institutional greetings will be given by Luigi Rambotti, Director of the State Archives of Perugia, Umberto De Augustinis, Mayor of Spoleto and President of the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, and Giorgio Ferrara, Artistic Director of the Festival of Two Words. Roberto Conticelli, President of Umbria’s Order of Journalists, Paola Mercurelli Salari, Director of Rocca Albornoz-Museo del Ducato di Spoleto (Polo Museale dell’Umbria) and Rosaria Mencarelli, Collegio dei garanti Fondazione Polo del ‘900 (Turin) and Director of the Abruzzo ABAP Superintendence will also give a speech.

In continuity with the publication of the volume Spoleto 1958. Alle radici della storia, il primo Festival dei Due Mondi, published in 2017 on the occasion of the sixtieth edition of the Festival of Two Worlds and with the exhibition dedicated to the first year of the Festival, the Spoleto Section of the State Archives has continued the research on the origins of the event that has marked Spoleto’s history and Italian cultural life.

Through a conference, a book and an exhibition, extraordinary moments in the history of the city will be retraced in order to reread the origins of the event, understand today’s heritage and trace future scenarios.