Abstract
<jats:p xml:lang="en">This volume brings together the proceedings of the Enrico Damiani Conference: Slavic Studies as a Tool for Friendship between Peoples, organized by the Università Orientale of Naples and held in Procida on June 12, 2023. The aim of the conference was not only to commemorate, seventy years after his death, one of the pioneers of Italian Slavic studies, but also to present his tireless work as a popularizer and cultural mediator from some new perspectives that could capture aspects not yet sufficiently explored, thanks also to the publication of unpublished materials preserved in the Luigi Salvini Archive and the Library of the Chamber of Deputies. The result is a familiar picture of Damiani, but at the same time shows him in a new light thanks to the interpretation we can give it today, allowing us to understand even better the fundamental role he played in the progress of Slavic studies in Italy.</jats:p>