Introduction. The development of the book market and book collecting in the sixteenth century

Introduction to the proceedings of the conference Selling & Collecting.Printed Book Sale Catalogues and Private Libraries in Early Modern Europe held at the University of Cagliari in September 2017

Printed catalogues of booksellers as a source for the history of the book trade

Printed advertisements and lists of books for sales were used by publishers and booksellers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively to promote and increase the sale of books in distant markets. This article proposes an overall interpretation of the uses of these catalogues in the trade in books, the purposes they were designed to fulfil, and the reading public(s) they aimed to reach. Specific attention is paid to the book prices which are found in about 30% of the surviving printed catalogues. These represent a reliable testimony to the pricing policies some of the most important publishing firms, and the segments of the market they intended to serve. The catalogues are therefore among the main sources for our understanding of the mechanisms of the early modern book trade and its economic structure

Linee guida per pianificare la digitalizzazione di collezioni di libri rari e manoscritti

1International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Quest’opera è distribuita sotto la licenza Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (Unported). Per vedere una copia di questa licenza, visitare il sito: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 IFLA P.O. Box 95312 2509 CH Den Haag Netherlands http://www.ifla.org/openopenNuovo, AngelaNuovo, Angela Mari

Gli incunaboli di Umberto Eco

Nel 2021, il Ministero della Cultura ha acquisito la biblioteca privata di Umberto Eco, la cui collezione di 1.200 libri antichi e rari è pervenuta alla Biblioteca Braidense di Milano. Essa include 36 incunaboli che costituiscono l’oggetto del presente studio.In 2021, the Italian Minister of Culture acquired the private library of Umberto Eco. whose collection of 1.200 early printed and rare books was placed in the Biblioteca Braidense in Milan. It includes 36 incunabula which are the subject of the present study

Trading in books in time of plague (1522)

2noBy analysing some letters sent in 1522 by the agent Bernardo d’Asola to the Venetian publisher and bookseller Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano, the article aims to reconstruct ways of organising book distribution at the Recanati and Lanciano fairs. The trade fairs, as evidenced by the letters, are particularly unfortunate because of the plague that affected various areas of Italy in 1522. An edition of Bernardo’s significant letter of 17 October 1522 sent from Recanati follows the text.openopenNuovo A.; Pani L.Nuovo, A.; Pani, L

Healthcare recommendations for Joubert syndrome

Joubert syndrome (JS) is a recessive neurodevelopmental disorder defined by a characteristic cerebellar and brainstem malformation recognizable on axial brain magnetic resonance imaging as the "Molar Tooth Sign". Although defined by the neurological features, JS is associated with clinical features affecting many other organ systems, particularly progressive involvement of the retina, kidney, and liver. JS is a rare condition; therefore, many affected individuals may not have easy access to subspecialty providers familiar with JS (e.g., geneticists, neurologists, developmental pediatricians, ophthalmologists, nephrologists, hepatologists, psychiatrists, therapists, and educators). Expert recommendations can enable practitioners of all types to provide quality care to individuals with JS and know when to refer for subspecialty care. This need will only increase as precision treatments targeting specific genetic causes of JS emerge. The goal of these recommendations is to provide a resource for general practitioners, subspecialists, and families to maximize the health of individuals with JS throughout the lifespan

Manuscript Writings on Politics and Current Affairs in the Collection of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535\u20131601)

This article analyses a section of the private library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, one of the largest European book collections of the late Cinquecento, housed in Padua. As well as containing between 9000 and 10,000 printed books and several hundred manuscripts, the library was rich in information on politics and current affairs. The collection of newsletters (avvisi) is systematic both in the quantity of material and in its careful bibliographic ordering. Pinelli also had an archive of political writings that is larger and better organized than equivalent collections owned by Venetian patricians. For this material, too, Pinelli created a complex and highly efficient bibliographic structure that was to make it particularly easy, after his death, for the Venetian government to seize those political writings considered to be of state interest

Stampa e potere: sondaggi cinquecenteschi

Printer officially at the service of political or administrative authorities began to appear in some Italian states at the half of th 16th century. Agreements that established such exclusive positions were largely based on direct and especially indirect financing throught the granting of privileges