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.