"...going from piazza Navona along via della Cuccagna or across piazza Pasquino leads us to piazza San Pantaleo (corso Vittorio Emanuele II). In the photograph (1888): on the right, a corner of Palazzo Braschi (today the Rome Museum); behind the monument of Marco Minghetti, the ancient Giocomo Protto Caffé, the present head offices of the Gangemi Editore publishing house..."

«...to put into the bookshops the more difficult classical texts, on subjects that are less up-to-date or of immediate attraction, but written with extensive notes, compiled with thorough information and research, with indications of names, places, ideas, many useful illustrations giving documentary evidence, and not just ornamental. Books that do not age, which will be available on microfiches even when they are out of print; and furthermore the network of contemporary subjects, those on the expansion of European culture in other continents, on the motivations and the economic bases, has also been enlarged; great attention has also been paid to the attempt to trace back to their historical roots some of today's ideological debates. But time, together we hope with reason and modesty, will tell..." From the manifesto of the publishing house on its foundation in 1962 »

Gangemi Publishers was established in 1962 with a strong belief in the principles of economic and corporate efficiency as well as editorial rigor and graphic quality. It soon became one of the top Italian publishers included in the widest circles of production and sales in Italy and abroad. Indeed their books and periodicals (often published with facing English text or exclusively in English) can be found in all of Italy's bookshops and news sellers and in major foreign venues. Using the most modern sales techniques and newest technologies, Gangemi is able to offer authoritative texts of genuine graphic appeal.