History
The concept of a national library which could host all the literary works in Esperanto was first imagined by professor Mario Dazzini (Pietrasanta, 1910 – Massa, 1985) and his sister, Catina Dazzini, already since the 1950s.
The first such collection began in 1972, when Dazzini received a rare Esperanto book (the first grammar of Esperanto ever published in Italy, written by Daniele Marignoni). The book was donated by the Italian linguist Bruno Migliorini and his brother Elio Migliorini, a geographer.
The core of the library consisted not only of books provided by the Migliorinis, but also of works donated by Mr. Boscarino from Ragusa, by Corrado Grazzini, by Luigi Minnaja and by other Italian Esperantists.
The library was first hosted in the Malaspina Castle, on the hills surrounding Massa, and was then moved to the building of the State Archive in Massa.
In March 1994 the library and its archive were donated to the State and to the archive administration of the Italian Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali.
The local Esperanto group in Massa began in January 2007 to catalogue the books and works hosted by the library, being helped and financed by the province of Massa-Carrara, together with the regional government of Tuscany and the Massa State Archive.
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