Biblioteche di Scienze Umanistiche
The library's assets, entirely organised on open shelves in order to allow users direct access to the documents, it consists of over 130,000 texts including monographs and magazine years. The main disciplinary sectors are linguistics, literature and philology, especially of the Romance languages, but many works from contextual disciplines appear: history, philosophy, psychology, geography, economics, sociology, religion, and so on. There is also a specific sector dedicated to books, understood as a physical object, an instrument of culture, a discipline of study.
Among the most important online resources, which can be consulted on the University network, the following are worth mentioning:
- BIGLLI General bibliography of Italian language and literature
- BLE Bibliography of Spanish literature
- FRANTEXT Textual database of French literature
- IN THE BEGINNING Incipit index of Latin texts
- KLAPP Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft
The ancient collection of the library consists of 3000 printed books published between the 16th and 19th centuries.
These rare and valuable works are preserved in the rare room, set up with adequate criteria for good conservation of the material.
The collection was born and developed over time thanks to the will and passion of scholars belonging to the Department of Literary Sciences, who increased the fund by dedicating themselves to research and finding precious specimens from the different disciplinary areas.
The cataloging of the Ancient Fund is almost complete, so all the material is now visible in the University electronic catalogue.
The consultation of ancient books is permitted to scholars upon reservation:
tel. 011 6705567
- Guglielminetti: nearly 6,000 texts of literary criticism and literary theory from the prof's personal library. Marziano Guglielminetti (1937-2006), literary critic and professor of Italian literature.
- Lanza: includes 837 works of literature and theater criticism belonging to Domenico Lanza (1868-1949), journalist, founder and director of magazines and highly esteemed theater critic.
- La Salle: a part of the legacy of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, including 783 narrative texts (of which 219 ancient), often by minor authors and therefore difficult to find.
- Mombello: over 1,500 works of fiction, history and criticism of French literature of the 15th and 16th centuries, the main focus of the studies of Gianni Mombello (1933-2005), academic of history of the French language.
- Morino: the personal library of Angelo Morino (1949-2007), Hispanist and contemporaryist, writer, translator, university professor, consisting of over 5,000 works of fiction, especially Latin American and Italian.
- Terracini: Lore Terracini (1925-1995), Hispanist, philologist, university professor, left around 150 monographs and hundreds of magazine issues relating to the history of the Spanish language and literature.
