Druss wrote:

Is a catalogue planned for this exhibition?

The most important retrospective of its kind in Italy in terms of spectacularity, size, unpublished materials on display and the authority of the international institutions involved: the Vatican Apostolic Archives, the Bibliothèque Alpha of the University of Liège, the University of Reading , the Oratory of San Filippo Neri in Birmingham, the Venerable English College of Rome, the Tolkien Society, the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation, the Benedetto Croce Library Foundation, the Biella Civic Library, the Astrolabio-Ubaldini and Bompiani publishing houses, the Greisinger Museum in Jenins and the Warner Bros Discovery.
The catalog that accompanies the exhibition makes use of the contributions of Adriano Monti Buzzetti Colella, Giuseppe Pezzini, Emma Giammattei, Francesco Nepitello, Chiara Bertoglio, Gianluca Comastri, father Guglielmo Spirito, Fabio Celoni, Davide Martini, Roberta Tosi, Salvatore Santangelo, Stefano Giuliano, Claudio Mattia Serafin, Gianfranco de Turris, Paolo Paron and Domenico Dimichino.
The capital will be the first stop on a journey that will continue in 2024 in other Italian cities.

An explicit certificate of gratitude then goes to the Oratory of San Filippo Neri in Birmingham, for allowing us to show the public the very precious material that belonged to Tolkien's mother, Mabel, which is exhibited outside the institute for the first time...to the Vatican Apostolic Archives, for the letter which testifies to the meeting between Christopher Tolkien and the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII in March 1947; to the Venerable English College of Rome, which was available to lend the paper and photographic documentation relating to the years in which one of Tolkien's sons, John Francis, was their seminarian; to the ULiège Library of the University of Liège, for having granted the original documents belonging to Simonne d'Ardenne and J.R.R. Tolkien; to the Tolkien Society, of which I am honored to have been a member for a decade, for allowing us to enrich the exhibition itinerary with two original letters from Tolkien and his wife Edith; to the University of Reading, for allowing us to reconstruct the correspondence between Tolkien's English publisher, George Allen & Unwin, and the Italian Mondadori and Astrolabio; to King Edward's School in Birmingham and to John Garth, one of Tolkien's most important biographers, for his approval of the reproduction of the film Tolkien's Great War; to the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation, for all the material concerning the relationship with Allen & Unwin in the two attempts to publish The Lord of the Rings in Italy already in 1955 and then again in 1962...to the Greisinger Museum in Jenins, Switzerland, and its founder, Bernd Greisinger, for the loan of works of art and some rare books preserved in what is the most important private museum in the world dedicated to Tolkien....father Guglielmo Spirito, for the photographs taken by Tolkien and his daughter Priscilla during trip to Italy in 1955 and some postcards bought by the Tolkiens and never use...

Italy's first major exhibition dedicated to the celebrated British fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien is preparing to open in Naples following a successful run in Rome.

Titled Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore, the exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the death of The Lord of the Rings writer and will open at the Palazzo Reale in Naples from 15 March until 30 June.

The show which first opened last November at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in the presence of Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni, attracted more than 80,000 visitors.

The Rome show was hailed as "an extraordinary success" by Italy's culture ministry Gennaro Sangiuliano whose ministry promoted the exhibition.

The exhibit, which comes to Italy 50 years after the first Italian edition of The Hobbit, comprises more than 150 works including photographs, documents, letters and virtual reconstructions of the first editions of the books from which the blockbuster fantasy trilogy by director Peter Jackson is based.

After Naples the show will travel to the north Italian city of Turin and the Sicilian city of Catania later this year.