Biblioteche di Scienze Umanistiche
Following a donation by his heirs, the Giovanni Tabacco Fund, professor of Medieval History at the University of Turin from 1966 to 1985, was acquired in 2013 by the Library of the Department of Historical Studies, named after the professor shortly after his death in 2002 at the age of 88.
The collection is made up of the personal library and a manuscript index, in which the professor traced his own "widespread" library, indicating for each text the place where it could be found: not only his home, but also the libraries in the Turin area (National, University, Foundations, Institutes). The file, thus organised, naturally also represents a precious bibliography of the professor's study activity.
In addition to books and journal issues, the collection contains manuscript notes and drafts of publications, as well as some letters, evidence of the correspondence between Tabacco and other scholars. The texts present in the Fund, over 4,000, are being cataloged and are organically preserved in an undivided collection, excluded from loan.
For further information on the figure of Giovanni Tabacco, see the entry written by Giuseppe Sergi in the Biographical Dictionary of Italians:
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-tabacco_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/
Bequest from the private library of Professor Gullini (1923-2004), who taught Archeology and History of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Turin, the Giorgio Gullini Fund is made up of approximately 1,500 documents including books, periodicals and pamphlets. It is preserved undivided, completely cataloged and, as regards the monographs, made available for external loan.
The University's School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage is named after Giorgio Gullini, who was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin for over forty years.
For further information on the figure of the scholar, see his profile on the Graduate School page on the Department of Historical Studies website:
https://scuolaarcheologia.campusnet.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=Giorgio_Gullini.html
The Fund includes the theses of the sections into which the History Department was divided (Economic History, Ancient History, Medieval History, Modern History, Contemporary History) discussed between the 1960s, although not continuously for each single year, and 2001, the year from which the digital file should be available for each degree thesis. The theses discussed from 2001 to 2007 were in fact transferred onto CDs currently stored in the Historical Archives of the University of Turin, while since 2009 they have been available in electronic format on the University portal in the online public archive of theses.
Those previously located in the SAAST Department were then added to the History theses, concerning: Oriental Archaeology, Egyptology, Etruscology and Italian Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Christian Archeology and Medieval Archaeology.
An indexed catalog was created of the Fund, undivided and excluded from the loan, following library economic standards. The material can therefore be found by consulting the .pdf file of the catalogue:
