National Esperanto Library and Archive
National Esperanto Library and Archive | |
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Biblioteca Nazionale di Esperanto | |
Country | Italy |
Established | 1972 |
Location | Massa |
Coordinates | 44°02′15″N 10°08′18″E / 44.03760456853333°N 10.138329695781541°E |
Website | http://www.archiviodistatomassa.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/186/biblioteca-nazionale-di-esperanto |
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The Esperanto National Library and Archive is the biggest Esperanto library in Italy; it is located in Massa, in northern Tuscany.
Founded in 1972 as the official library of the [1] it is now a public collection, hosted by the and part of the REPROBI network of Italian libraries.[2]
,History[]
The concept of a national library that could host all the literary works in Esperanto was first imagined in the 1950s by professor (Pietrasanta, 1910 – , 1985)[3] and his sister, .
The first collection began in 1972, when Dazzini received a rare Esperanto book (the first grammar of Esperanto ever published in Italy, written by Bruno Migliorini and his brother , a geographer.[4]
). The book was donated by the Italian linguistThe core of the library consisted not only of books provided by the Migliorinis, but also of works donated by a lawyer Boscarino from Ragusa, , , and other Italian Esperantists.[4]
The library was first hosted in the Malaspina Castle, on the hills surrounding Massa, and was then moved to the building of the State Archive in Massa.[4]
In March 1994, the library and its archive were donated to the state and to the archive administration of the Italian Ministry of Culture.[4]
In January 2007, the local Esperanto group in Massa began to catalogue the books and works hosted by the library.[5] The work was helped and financed by the province of Massa-Carrara, together with the regional government of Tuscany and the Massa State Archive.[6] The inauguration of the library's new location in the building of the State Archive was celebrated on 25 October 2008 in a public conference, called "Dall'Esperanto storico al multimediale" ("From historical to multimedial Esperanto"), hosted in the Sala della Resistenza of the .[7]
Collection[]
The library hosts books written in or related to Esperanto; the books mainly deal with linguistics, literature, theology and politics.[6] Overall, the library hosts around 8,000 books.[4] The majority of them were donated by the Dazzinifamily, and later by other Italian Esperantists.[6]
The collection includes 176 magazines, not yet catalogued, as well as other documents such as travel diaries, correspondence, photographic images and music recordings.[6] About half of the collection is Esperanto translations of works of prose and poetry.
References[]
- ^ Amedeo Benedetti, L'Esperanto e la Biblioteca Nazionale di Massa, in "Charta", n. 97, May–June 2008, p. 60.
- ^ Elenco dei soggetti aderenti alla Rete Provinciale delle Biblioteche di Massa Archived 10 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ En memoro de Mario Dazzini, ne , luglio-agosto 1985, p. 3.
- ^ a b c d e Amedeo Benedetti, L'Esperanto e la Biblioteca Nazionale di Massa, in "Charta", n. 97, May–June 2008, p. 63.
- ^ http://www.comune.massa.ms.it/?q=node/848 Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d Provincia di Massa-Carrara - Biblioteca Nazionale di Esperanto Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ A Massa la presentazione della Biblioteca Nazionale di Esperanto - intoscana.it.
Bibliography[]
- Amedeo Benedetti, L'Esperanto e la Biblioteca Nazionale di Massa, in Charta, n. 97, May–June 2008, pp. 60–63.
External links[]
- Buildings and structures in Tuscany
- Libraries in Massa
- Esperanto libraries
- Library buildings completed in 2008
- Massa