A scuola gli uni degli altri. Nascita e primi passi del CISPELS

The article tells the story of birth (2014) and growth of CISPELS, Coordinamento Intersocietario per la Storia del Pensiero Linguistico e Semiotico. It shows the variety of epistemological attitudes in the language sciences and throughout their history. Both summer schools and conferences develop the project at the national level, while preparing its insertion into the international network. CiSPElS is here introduced as a young, italian enterprise devoted to the history of linguistic and semiotic thought, and to its initial steps. in thebackground, the preceding initiatives are mentioned: iCHolS; SHESl, theHenry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, the Studienkreis für die Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft. the importance of the relationship among scientific societies, multidisciplinary research, a united commitment between historiographical reconstruction and explanation, on the one hand, and highly specialised, active inquiries on the other, is highlighted, together with a number of initiatives already in progress: a yearly summer school (2016-), a national conference (2018) and the hosting of an international one (2020). The foundation of the present hosting journal, Blityri, has been a pathfinder in this newly established tradition.