(August 30, 2016) Buenos Aires remembers Giorgio Bassani. Its a fact, but also the title of the study day that on Monday, September 12 the Italian Institute of Culture and Adilli (Association of professors and researchers of Italian language and literature) will dedicate to the writer, on the centenary of his birth. Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was a leading figure of Italian culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Writer, university professor, playwriter and publisher: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Gold Rimmed Glasses, Stories of Ferrara, and The Smell of Hay are his main works of fiction. In the last years of life has intensified his civic engagement, being the founder and then president for 15 years of “Italia Nostra,” Civil Association for the protection of the Italian artistic heritage and environment.