ДВАМА ЗАБЕЛЕЖИТЕЛНИ ИТАЛИАНСКИ БЪЛГАРИСТИ – НАШИ СЪВРЕМЕННИЦИ (Марио Капалдо, Джузепе Дел’Агата)
TWO DISTINGUISHED INTALIAN SCHOLARS IN BULGARISTICS – OUR CONTEMPORARIES (Mario Capaldo, Giuseppe Dell'Agata)

Summary/Abstract: The research activities of two well-known Italian scholars in Slavistics and Bulgaristics, who have defined their field of scientific research since an early academic age, are briefly studied. Throughout their scientific studies, Mario Capaldo and Giuseppe Dell'Agata relied on the secure basis of the original texts from the archive and handwritten Slavonic collections, and as early as the beginning of their career they emerged as excellent linguists in the field of Paleoslavonic studies and Old-Bulgarian studies, gradually expanding their scientific themes. Mario Capaldo, with the method of textology and comparativism, deepened the studies of the medieval Slavonic world and the dynamics of his literary and cultural relations with the neighboring lands and cultures - Greek and Latin German. He also achieved remarkable results in studying the works of the Old Bulgarian representatives of the Preslav Literary School of the IX-X century, discovering the Greek models of translated literature, brilliantly performed in this center. Giuseppe Dell'Agata subsequently manifested himself in the later period of the XVII-XIX centuries. In his works, he discussed the issue of the literary Bulgarian language in the perspective of the Balkan area, the peculiarities of the Church-Slavonic language, he also studied the Greek-Bulgarian parallels in the language of the damascenes, analyzed the works and sources of the brightest literary representatives of the early and mature Bulgarian Revival: Paisiy Hilendarski and Sofroniy Vrachanski. In the recent years, his translations into Italian of some of the most prominent contemporary Bulgarian fiction writers have helped a lot to popularize modern Bulgarian literature in Italy. With their overall scientific and teaching activities, the two Italian scholars in Slavistics and Bulgaristics have undoubtedly contributed to the development of Slavonic and Bulgarian studies not only in Italy, but also in an international context, as well as to the expansion of Italian-Bulgarian scientific and cultural relations

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