Felice Tocco

Tocco’s volumes arrived at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence in part through purchase (1914) and in part as a donation from Tocco’s son Roberto (1947). It is one of the most precious collections of the library of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Florence, since it fully covers Italian philosophic literature of the first fifty years after the unification of Italy. There are also important foreign volumes about various sectors of interest: psychology, pedagogy, philosophy, anthropology, history and literature. It contains 2,078 works and a miscellaneous section, of particular importance, with 3,579 brochures. The collection is enhanced with 56 files of Tocco’s manuscripts (preparatory materials for lections and publications, transcripts of codices and documents). There is still the original inventory of the collection.

Bibliography: Guida ai fondi speciali delle biblioteche toscane, a cura di S. Di Majo, Firenze, DBA 1996².