Recently I heard that someone has defined me as an ‘author’s library’, an expression and concept introduced in the 20th century with the librarianship of Luigi Crocetti and with which I agree. An author’s library is strictly connected to the intellectual activity of an author and is quite different from a personal library of an ordinary collector, bibliophile or founder of a library, who has not developed his own thought expressed in texts of various types. Two specific points can thus be formulated to characterize the author’s library: provenance and homogeneity.
