Abstract

In the recent development of linguistic historiography, the interest in foreign and second languages has developed considerably as regards the materials used to describe and learn/teach them, such as dictionaries, grammars, textbooks and other resources that have spread throughout Europe since the Renaissance. The nationalization of public education in Italy since the Unity represented an important turning point for their study, in the entire school system in the first place, and then in the universities, in which they made their way between literary and philological teachings up to the seventies of the last century, when linguistic teachings began to strengthen themselves through the creation of first and second level university chairs all over the country. The bibliography presented and commented in this study reflects these different issues and, in particular, the strong attempt made by linguists at the end of the last century to adapt university language teachings to the identity of the different faculties and the new methods of teaching.