Ricerc@Sapienza

In the context of the celebrations for the centenary of the birth of Italo Calvino (1923-2023) and of Italy's participation as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2023, this project aims to bring into being the first centre of digital documentation dedicated to the author: the Portale Italo Calino.
The Portale Italo Calvino will constitute an enrichment of the section devoted to Calvino on the Portale Spazi900 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, with whom the Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture Moderne of Sapienza envisages setting up an agreement for this purpose, and it intends to stress and disseminate the outcomes of the research carried out from 2015 onwards by the project "Calvino qui e altrove" and later by the Laboratorio Calvino of La Sapienza (active since 2018).
Thanks to its clear structure in different sections and the inclusion of multi-media tools and content, this Portal aims to bring an innovative approach to the study of Calvino's intellectual biography, works, collections of documents and bibliographical resources dedicated to him, and to become the authoritative point of reference for the knowledge and memory of Italo Calvino in the world. The resources of the digital environment that will be made available by the site of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome, as well as the interdisciplinary skills and competencies in the study of this author which are possessed by the Research Group of Laboratorio Calvino (including scholars who have a long track-record in Calvino criticism and are directly involved in the curatorship of his works) will allow us to overcome the limitations and dispersion of single scholarly approaches. There will be an overall view offered through innovative and rigorous tools, which will allow us to reconstruct links between Calvino's works, places and experiences, and to supply in-depth analyses, new areas of research and new possibilities in transmitting literary knowledge to a wider public.