Campania Libri Festival is a new cultural adventure run by Fondazione Campania dei Festival, in-house organization belonging to the Campania Region, led by Alessandro Barbano, with the artistic direction of Ruggero Cappuccio.

From the 29th of September to the 2nd of October 2022, the Fondazione put on the first edition of a major event dedicated to books, with the editorial curatorship of philosopher and university lecturer Massimo Adinolfi. The event, funded by the Campania Region, was realized in collaboration with Fondazione Guida alla Cultura.

For four days, Naples truly turned into a 'Kingdom of Books and Literature', welcoming prestigious Italian and international writers, intellectuals, journalists, philosophers, artists, and professionals from the publishing world. In addition to the bookfair, held at the Palazzo Reale, with 70 stands set up in the courtyards of one of most symbolic places in Naples, in order to map out a true journey through national publishing, many meetings taking place between the Palazzo Reale, the National Library and the Politeama Theatre made Naples a heart of culture and core attraction.
This outcome marked the opening of a new, successful chapter in our area's cultural programming, which aims to become an annual event capable of creating a wide-ranging synergy with the city and the cultural, entrepreneurial and tourist business that connects Naples to the rest of the world. The Festival's second edition took place once again at the Royal Palace, from the 5th to the 8th of October 2023.

The first edition of the event was dedicated, willed of the artistic director of the Fondazione Campania dei Festival Ruggero Cappuccio, to the writer Raffaele La Capria, who passed away in June 2022. The project was curated by Nadia Baldi, who assigned the reading of some pages from La Capria's works to actors Claudio Di Palma, Cristina Donadio and Gea Martire.

Meanwhile, the second edition was dedicated to Italo Calvino - on the occasion of the centenary of his birth - and his doctrine about lightness, contained in his 'Norton Lectures'. As with the first edition, the Festival was held at the Royal Palace in Naples, a unique location, where over 90 stands were hosted and about 200 meetings with national and international authors and artists took place.