Paolo Siniscalco e il lascito di Erik Peterson

By consulting the historical archives of the University of Turin, the Erik Peterson Archive, and the Michele Pellegrino Archive, the article intends to clarify the relations between Erik Peterson and the Turin school of ancient Christian literature in the early 1950s, relations that laid the foundations for the University of Turin’s acquisition of the German scholar’s books and files. Paolo Siniscalco played an important role in this affair: among Pellegrino’s students, he was the one who got to know Peterson best, to whose memory he remained attached even after his death, both scientifically and personally.