Special collections

Donated by the wife of the American scholar Bernard Benstock to the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT).

It comprises around 1,500 items including the works of James Joyce, 20th-century novels and essays with particular reference to modernism, women’s writing and feminist criticism.

It also includes a particularly rich and interesting section with crime fiction studies and texts.

Donated to the Library by the wife of Professor Pasquale Fantini, professor of French translation at the former Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators.

It comprises around 400 books on French literature, language, culture and history.

Donated to the Library by the heirs of linguist Luigi Heilmann.

It comprises more than 4,000 books and over 200 journals on linguistics, glottology, dialectology, semantics, philology, prosody, metrics, foreign languages and Greek, Latin and Italian literature.

Donated to the Library by Professor Henry Huttenbach, history professor at the City University of New York.

It comprises around 3,000 books and journals on Russian history, language, literature and culture, Judaism and genocide.

It also includes rare and antiquarian books.

Donated to the Library by the heirs of Don Francesco Ricci, founder of Gioventù Studentesca and the Centro di Studi dell’Europa dell’Est (CSEO).

It comprises around 2,000 books and journals on the culture and institutions of Eastern European countries, with particular reference to the role of the Catholic Church and the political and cultural situation of the Balkans.

It also includes personal notes, manuscripts, typescripts of published and unpublished works, and correspondence (shelved under RICCI ARCH).

Donated by the family of linguist Luigi Rosiello to the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT).

It comprises around 2,600 books and journals and 1,800 offprints on linguistics, dialectology, philosophy of language, history of language and psycholinguistics.

Donated to the Library by the heirs of Senator Roberto Ruffilli.

It comprises around 5,000 books, journals and offprints on politics, the history of political movements and institutions, and modern and contemporary history.

Donated to the Library by Professor Philippe Schmitter, professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Fiesole.

It comprises around 500 books, journals and offprints mainly dealing with the political, economic and social situation of Latin America.

It also includes personal notes, correspondence and typescripts of published and unpublished works (shelved under SCHM ARCH).

Part of the personal library of Erio Sughi, well-known teacher, poet, critic and translator from Forlì.

It comprises around 800 books and journals on foreign languages and literatures, particularly German.