The library of the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens to be opened on Wednesday will be named after writer and essayist Umberto Eco.
The library of the institute has some 30,000 volumes on literature, cinema, theatre, linguistics, music, history, politics and journalism.
The library also offers an information service on Italian cultural life and artistic heritage which can be accessed via telephone and the Internet.
Moreover, the library provides material for film directors and theatre operators who intend to stage Italian works or works regarding Italy.
The institute will be opened on Wednesday evening with a conference entitled 'The Poetry of Corrado Calabro' in The Wind of Mykonos and of Nasos Vagenas in Dark Ballads'.
The two authors, poets Titos Patrikios and Antonis Fostieris, writer and journalist Vasilis Rouvalis, editors Nicola Crocetti and Samis Gavriilidis and Italian Ambassador Gianpaolo Scarante will take part in the conference.
The Mykonos poem by Calabro' has been set to music by composer Antonio Pappalardo.
