Olivetti is the story of Camillo, the pioneer, the inventor, the capricious and brilliant nonconformist who founded, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the first Italian typewriter factory.
With the help of biographies, interviews, literary texts (Natalia Ginzburg’s witty description of him in Lessico Familiare was indispensable), his life, the figures around him, his environment and his enterprises have been reconstructed.
The narrative voices were then entrusted to two fundamental characters in his story: his mother, Elvira Sacerdoti, and his wife, Luisa Revel.
These two women, both from a minority culture (the first Jewish, the second Waldensian) were the silent protagonists of the formation and realization of the Olivetti dream. It seemed right to bring their voices back to the forefront, a paradigm of the many female voices that built in the shadows in those years.
It is the epic tale of an adventure, and as such, gripping, full of twists and turns, of trials to overcome, of struggles, of loves, of heroes.
The most extraordinary thing is that it is… all true.
