The volume offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the salient moments in the history of Slavic studies at the University of Padua and sheds new light on the figures of the scholars considered, as well as on the role they played within Slavic studies based in Italy. Starting with Giovanni Maver, who first held the Chair of Slavic Philology in Padua, and continuing with Ettore Lo Gatto, Arturo Cronia, Evel Gasparini and Natalino Radovich as his successors, their scientific, organizational and didactic merits are highlighted and their work is put in historical |