Do you know where the largest semiotic library in Europe is located? Just a stone’s throw from A casa di Cilu!
It is located in Palazzo Tarallo in Palermo’s historic Albergheria district. It is named after the twentieth-century Italian structuralist semiotician Paolo Fabbri, who in Palermo donated his writings to the Circolo Semiologico Siciliano, chaired by Gianfranco Marrone, a brilliant pupil and fellow student.
The library includes more than 12,000 volumes and hundreds of folders of Fabbri’s personal archives, kept in a treasure chest, Palazzo Tarallo, which already houses some important libraries (Pitrè, Buttitta). A second home for the documents of the Rimini scholar, an environment that seeks to reproduce his atmosphere with furniture, drawings and portraits that were in his private home along with the volumes and papers, the original cataloguing criteria of which have been maintained.
Alongside the library, it will be possible to consult an impressive archive of more than 200 folders, consisting of handwritten and typewritten notes, correspondences, conference programs, bibliographies, abstracts and photocopies, university course notes, conference papers, and newspaper articles.
Antonio Pasqualino, together with whom he initiated, with other extraordinary scholars such as Umberto Eco and Antonino Buttitta, semiological studies in Sicily.”
