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The article deals with Maria Gioia Tavoni (1939-2025), main librarian of the Biblioteca Comunale, Faenza, Book and Library Historian at the University of Pisa and Bologna, scholar of handprinted books, paratext and artists’ books, collector and cultural promoter of initiatives related to libraries and books. Since the Seventies in Faenza, dedicated to social and cultural engagement and biblio- graphic heritage events, like library exhibitions and children’s book fairs, to the Pisan and Bologna season, started in 1987 and focused on academic research and on teaching. Tavoni arranged in her lifetime the fate of her own and other people’s libraries, saved from dispersion and intended to be- come bibliographic collections open to the public.
