Margherita Bettini Prosperi
Institute of Parasitology, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, I.
Keywords:
Malaria , Guido Casini , Marchiafava Institute
Abstract
The Parassitology Institute of the University of Roma "La Sapienza" keeps documents frome the Società per gli Studi della Malaria, form the Istituto Superiore di Malariologia Ettore Marchiafava and from the Ente Regionale per la Lotta Antianofelica in Sardegna (Erlaas). The papers arrived in the private Archive of Guido Casini, malariologist and secretary of the Istituto Marchiafava, who involved himself in many activities performed by those Bureaux and who recently gave the documentary sources as a donation to the Parassitology Institute. The intervention of reorganization and inventory of the Guido Casini FUnd is in its final phase; it will allow to reconstruct the institutional events of these Bureaux and to point out their important sanitary, scientific and political contribution in Italy and abroad.
