Una slavista italiana dimenticata. Umberta Griffini, traduttrice, mediatrice e scrittrice

Umberta Griffini (1880-1956) may be considered one of the most important figures in Italian Serbo-Croatian Studies before these were formally established. Although she spent a decade, at the beginning of the 20th century, vigorously disseminating Serbian literature, in numerous writings, reviews and a large number of translations of Serbian authors, her work has received insufficient scholary attention. A philologist by profession, she has remained almost unknown in Italian and Serbian Slavic studies, with the exception of some information about her and this despite the fact that Serbian literature was her most consuming interest. The aim of this article is to shed some light on an interesting woman who was atypical in the Italian cultural panorama of the first decade of the 20th century.