Bibliotecario e/o slavista: la missione di Enrico Damiani
Journal: Biblioteca di Studi slavistici
Year: 2025

Enrico Damiani’s life and work have always been strongly characterized by his dual vocation as a librarian and a Slavist. In both of these activities Damiani was always guided by an innate sense of duty and a firm conviction that he had a mission to fulfil: to foster the use of bibliographic resources and to spread knowledge of the languages and literatures of various Slavic countries in Italy. The article retraces some of the main stages of Damiani’s biographical and intellectual journey in ord