CNSM

Centro Nazionale di Studi Manzoniani (CNSM)

The Centro Nazionale di Studi Manzoniani was set up by royal decree under Italian law 1679/37, and its statute approved under a second decree law enacted a year later on 23 June 1938. In 2002 it became a foundation.

As provided by Article 1 of the Statute, the purpose of the Centre is ‘to promote and co-ordinate study and research concerning the life and works of Alessandro Manzoni and the cultural movements related to him as writer and thinker’.The Centro Nazionale di Studi Manzoniani was set up by royal decree under Italian law 1679/37, and its statute approved under a second decree law enacted a year later on 23 June 1938. In 2002 it became a foundation. As provided by Article 1 of the Statute, the purpose of the Centre is ‘to promote and co-ordinate study and research concerning the life and works of Alessandro Manzoni and the cultural movements related to him as writer and thinker’.

The Centre offers scholars the use of a specialist library containing over 300,000 volumes. Among its most prestigious resources are the books which belonged to Manzoni himself and his stepson Stefano Stampa, the Treccani and Viganò donations, translations – the earliest dating back to 1827 and 1828 – into Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Hebrew, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Japanese, Greek, English, Latin, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, German, Turkish, Hungarian, and most recently, Chinese.