Abstract
Private libraries have often played the role of reserving freedom towards the social and political environment. They did, however, have other functions, according to the path and positioning of its owners and respective commitment to written culture. What remains from an individual path, in the surrounding social environment, is also the readings that the library owner made and carried out in the social circles by him frequented. When the biographical course gathers several landscapes and social frameworks, it becomes an intermediary between various cultures and shifts the books between diverse semiospheres, mainly in inter- and multi-cultural and linguistic. Alfredo Troni’s case is particularly significative, not only of what he said, but also of how much interrelations in the book’s circles cheer up and update literary communities, creativities and readings in countries and colonies.
Keywords:
Angolan literature - Bibliography - 19th century