Riccardo Picchio sulle lingue letterarie degli Slavi

SUMMARY According to Riccardo Picchio’s vision of Slavic cultures, the history of literary languages represents a leading axis of Slavic cultural history. This theme has been developed from the beginning of his scientific activity in a strictly comparative way. The Author delineates the development of Picchio’s researches in this branch, emphasizing how they offered a fundamental contribution to international Slavistics, especially as regards the study of the wide Church Slavonic linguistic community in its long duration and under a supranational point of view. Picchio’s interpretation of Slavic linguistic and cultural history, his methodology and his terminology represent a heritage continuing to urge debates among scholars in national and international Slavic studies.