He passed away like this, in the silence of his fifty-year intellectual effort, one of the giants of Italian Slavic studies, remembered only by the Resto del Carlino and by the few pieces of information about him that can be found on the web. From the height of a century of life, perhaps Professor Sante Graciotti would have preferred it this way, indulging in the simple and Franciscan nature that characterized his entire life. The same nature with which thirty years ago he opened the doors of the Institute of Slavic Philology at Sapienza in Rome. I was the last of the young students who - without even attending his courses - sought enlightenment for my research and Professor Graciotti not only gave me everything...