The Giorgio Cini Foundation relaunches the historic series of volumes dedicated to collecting studies and contributions by internationally renowned scholars from different disciplinary fields on some of the most relevant contemporary issues. The Quaderni di San Giorgio constitute one of the most important publishing initiatives in the history of the Giorgio Cini Foundation: between the first volume published in 1955 and the last in 1984, the series has a total of thirty-eight titles.
Throughout these seventy years, this series has attracted constant attention, both from a cultural and a collecting perspective. Copies of the volumes are preserved in the libraries of the most prestigious international institutions, while universities and scholars have collected the entire series in order to continue to deepen the thought of the protagonists of the second half of the twentieth century, who confronted each other on theIsland of San Giorgio Maggiore. The Quaderni have synthesized and disseminated the Foundation’s commitment to topical issues, both in the cultural and scientific spheres, tackled with an interdisciplinary approach.
Forty years after the last publication, the publishing project now resumes. The new series will be devoted in particular to the collection and dissemination of the outcomes of Symposia organized by the Foundation on urgent and global issues. The new series, for Olschki Editions, will open with a volume entitled Global Health in the Age of AI, edited by philosopher Luciano Floridi, professor and director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University.
"The revival of the Quaderni is not a tribute to the past and to the publishing tradition of the Foundation, but the reaffirmation of a cultural model that has written a page of history: opening spaces for dialogue on fundamental issues, from artificial intelligence to health, from democracies to pandemics, from longevity to social transformations," said Gianfelice Rocca, president of the Giorgio Cini Foundation. "The importance of the Quaderni di San Giorgio lies not only in the content published but also in the spirit that generated them: that of a place that, from Venice, has positioned itself as an international laboratory of culture, a place of ideas that the Giorgio Cini Foundation wants to share with the world."
"As in 1955, the Quaderni di San Giorgio return as tools for the study and dissemination of ideas, testifying to the Foundation’s desire to continue to play an active and incisive role in the contemporary cultural scene," said Daniele Franco, Scientific Director of the Foundation. “Their importance, today as then, lies in their ability to combine rigor and openness, memory and topicality, local and global, acting as a point of reference for the study and understanding of the challenges facing civilization. These are the themes to which the Foundation is committed with a transversal and transdisciplinary work, involving its Institutes and Study Centers and the international network of institutions and universities.”
Global Health in the Age of AI, edited by Luciano Floridi, stems from the International Symposium of the same name held in November 2024 and represents number 39 of the San Giorgio Notebooks. Published in English by Olschki, the volume is available from March 2026 in major bookstores and online platforms. It collects the concluding contributions of the Symposium, offering an analysis of the impact of artificial intelligence on global health systems and proposing guidelines to guide their development in terms of equity, trust and transparency. Forty international scholars, among the leading experts in the field in academia, participated in the meeting.
The resumption of this significant publishing initiative represents a new challenge for the Foundation: it brings back to the center the material dimension of cultural production, fixes on paper the debates that animate the Island of St. George, and encourages the circulation of ideas through books.
“The analyses that emerged during the Symposium show that without a coordinated, multi-level effort, AI risks exacerbating, rather than reducing, global health inequalities,” concludes Luciano Floridi. “Hence the idea to formulate recommendations, which propose a systemic approach, capable of coordinating technical-scientific, social, ethical and regulatory dimensions. These recommendations are the content of this 39th Notebook, an outcome of the symposium but at the same time a starting point for new studies and solutions, a collection of coordinates to be shared in order to hypothesize future scenarios and what can be achieved as of today.”
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