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Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni

Bozzano-De Boni Library

History

The Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni (Bozzano-De Boni Library) was born on the 1st January 1985, when it was officially presented on Luce e Ombra, the magazine concerned with problematics linked to Psychical Research and to Parapsychology. It is mostly the result of a fusion of the documentary collections of two well-known Psychical Research scholars, Ernesto Bozzano (1862-1943) and Gastone De Boni (1908-1986). Gastone De Boni was the main creator of the Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni; after having enlarged the collection inherited from Ernesto Bozzano, he spent the last years of his life encouraging a collaborator of his, Silvio Ravaldini, to find a permanent centre for the material and to form a cultural association that would manage the patrimony. For this reason the Archivio di Documentazione Storica della Ricerca Psichica was formed. Both the Library and the Association started working in 1985.

With time,other donations and purchases enriched the documentary patrimony. Forever alert to novelties being published and to the availability of libraries dealing in antiques, the managing board has tried to fill the gaps in the initial collection, a job that will never find an end. An analitical organization and classification of the material on computer was therefore started. This operation also finds space for Ernesto Bozzano's and Gastone De Boni's analitical classifications, that represent an important instrument for research in Parapsychology. Silvio Ravaldini took upon himself the responsability of reorganizing those classifications so as to collect them in an enciclopedia.

On the 3rd January 1996 the Library moved to its new premises in Via Guglielmo Marconi,8 in Bologna. A Foundation (Fondazione Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni) (Bozzano-De Boni Library Foundation), created for managing it, intends to continue and enlarge its activities and initiatives. Both the work of organizing and enlarging the patrimony and of updating the Catalogues (on computer and in a volume), the preparation of an enciclopedia of analitical classifications, the reproduction on slides of photographic material in the books and magazines are all to continue. The Board will also widen the range of initiatives towards the public of the Library and not only it will reinforce its contacts with other research centers but it will also establish new contacts with other libraries.

Main Topics

The main topics of the Fondazione Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni material are especially on:

Spiritualism, Psychical Research, Metapsychics, Parapsychology, Esoterism, Occultism, Philosophy, Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Theosophy, Medicine.

With reference to these topics and consulting the Library's computer catalogue, one can carry out bibliographic research.

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Details

• History and objectives of the Fondazione Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni (Bozzano-De Boni Library Foundation). 

  
  

• History of the Archivio di Documentazione Storica della Ricerca Psichica

  
  

• Biography of Ernesto Bozzano, his bibliography and list of some his articles recently published.

  
  

• Biography of Gastone De Boni  and his bibliography.

  
  

• Public relations and activities of the Biblioteca Bozzano-De Boni.

  
  

• Definition and brief history of Psychical Research (in Italian)

  
  

• Indication of some Web Pages about Psychical Research.

  
  

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Bologna, December 16th 1996

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