Antonio Gramsci has become one of the leading names in contemporary social sciences and humanities. His skills as an analyst, forged as a political leader in the heat of the revolutionary situation and the fascist counteroffensive of the first third of the 20th century – and therefore not as an exercise in academic preciousness, but aimed at understanding their pressing circumstances – continue today to inspire readings and interpretations both in the strictly intellectual sphere and among political activists of various stripes, even becoming clichés of everyday political language and blurring the precision of their contours as the breadth of their scope grows. Given this fact, and so that this proliferation can, in addition to lasting, be enriched in its foundations, this edition offers the reader in Spanish a new version of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, the main source in which the its analytical categories, but where the broader, and less known, general perspective that gives them roots is also glimpsed.

The present edition, which combines readability and philological rigor, follows with very few changes the interpretation matured until today of the manuscript text, whose lines of chronological order were established in the critical edition of 1975. Likewise, the order and ecdotic interpretation of the Notebooks, directly on the facsimile reproduction arranged and commented on in the Edizione anastatica of 2009, and also taking into account the changes, comments and notes that the Fondazione Gramsci team has been contributing since the nineties in its Edizione Nazionale degli Written by Antonio Gramsci.