The Guido Dorso Research Centre (Centro di Ricerca Guido Dorso), founded in 1978 by the Dorso family, the “G.G. Feltrinelli” Foundation of Milan, the Region of Campania, the Province and the Municipality of Avellino, is run by a highly qualified Scientific Committee and was chaired by Manlio Rossi-Doria, Attilio Marinari, Antonio Maccanico, Sabino Cassese and, currently, by Luigi Fiorentino.

Included in the Special Section of the Regional Register “Institution of High Culture”, is registered in the register of legal entities of the Region of Campania. In 2020 the Dorso Centre was recognized by the Ministry of University and Research as a national cultural institute.

It carries out, without profit-making aims, its own activities, which have the main purpose of promoting knowledge and study of the history, economy and social ideas of Southern Italy. From the initial nucleus of the Dorso Fund we achieved the establishment of a Library of about 60,000 volumes.

The Guido Dorso Research Centre has been committed for years to the exploitation of its documentary heritage through the recovery and reorganization of its archival heritage and an ever wider opening of its funds to the public also through the use of multimedia technologies. In addition to the reordering and inventory operations, the Guido Dorso Research Centre carries out initiatives aimed at enhancing, making known and making available the documents of these archives. All the archival heritage of the Dorso Center has been recognized “of particularly important historical interest” by the MIBACT, with Decree no. 3/2015.