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The contribution examines, on the basis of the epistolary documentation kept in the manuscripts archive of the National Library of Florence, the conflicting relationship regarding the transfer of the library collection that belonged to the banker and bibliophile Horace de Landau between the bibliographer and bookseller Tammaro de Marinis and the Director of the Library Anita Mondolfo. The documentation allows us to reconstruct the background of the complicated negotiation between the Landau heirs and the Italian State. The contrasts between De Marinis and Mondolfo concerned above all the transfer to the National Library of Florence of the entire collection of manuscripts and precious editions owned by Landau which were not present in the Florentine libraries. Mondolfo lobbied to get them all, while the heirs were willing to sell only a part. Another reason for contrast was the failure to sell a precious Dante manuscript.

Il rinvenimento del codice vitruviano costituì per l’architettura una rivoluzione favorendo l’incontro degli architetti-artisti con i dotti umanisti. La vita civile dell’animata città rinascimentale aveva dato impulso agli ideali etici e politici degli studiosi, mentre l’incontro e lo scambio avevano determinato la formazione dello spazio pubblico. In questo contesto si realizza la biblioteca umanistica, uno spazio ideato secondo l’ideale rinascimentale per ospitare una raccolta di codici costituita secondo il nuovo canone bibliografico. La biblioteca umanistica nella corrispondenza tra aspetti bibliotecari e aspetti architettonici diviene nella rappresentazione rinascimentale un modello di riferimento.

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Joachim Johann Mader's De scriptis et bibliothecis antediluvianis appeared in 1666 as the praefatio of the De bibliothecis atque archivis virorum clarissimorum libelli, the first anthology of treatises on the history of libraries. In his essay, the scholar reconstructs the history of the discovery of the alphabet, writing and the first books. Thanks to the De bibliothecis antediluvianis, Mader completed his anthology with a good piece of news about a mythical period which was not previously well known or studied. Moreover, Mader could give a conceptual framework to the collection.

Libraries always have been evidence of civilization, culture, tradition, and progress. However, from the Enlightenment period and especially after the French Revolution, libraries become a factor of not only individual, but also collective and social education and elevation. In 1837, Louis Aimé Martin – conservator of the library of Saint Geneviève in Paris – published the essay Plan d’une bibliotheque universelle, where the library is described as a national educational enterprise whose aim is to bring together within the sameprinciples all classes of society. The essay cites the works of the most notable authors of all disciplines, divided by nations for the literary sphere.

The article analyzes the history of the Camera dei Deputati’s Library through the publication: Fernando Venturini, Libri, lettori e bibliotecari a Montecitorio. Storia della Biblioteca della Camera dei deputati, Milano, Wolters Kluwer, Padova, CEDAM, 2019 (Quaderni di Nomos. Le attualità nel diritto. Nuova serie, 7).

The essay starts from the will with which the physician Francesco Corradi, born in Sanremo and died in Genoa in 1865, disposed of his own legacy for various charitable purposes including the creation in his hometown of a public library. Until then, this institute was non-existent in the face of the presence of book collections belonging to religious orders, including Jesuits and Capuchins: the latter’s own books, acquired following the laws of suppression of the ecclesiastical bodies of 1866 and 1867, constituted the first core of the Corradi Library along with the volumes belonging to the doctor himself. The study therefore through the examination of the notes of possession tries to reconstruct the origin and organization of the friars’ collection, then through the analysis of the documentation produced in the meetings of the Municipal Council of Sanremo examines the formative process of the current Civic Library.

L’articolo illustra la figura di Filippo Mariotti (1833-1911) e l’azione da lui svolta a favore delle biblioteche italiane nel corso della sua lunga attività parlamentare, sia in veste di deputato, sia in quella di senatore. Il pensiero ‘biblioteconomico’ di Mariotti, sebbene si sia mosso prevalentemente entro i confini della tutela del patrimonio culturale, ha saputo cogliere ed esprimere temi di interesse rilevante anche in prospettiva moderna, quali la dimensione territoriale delle biblioteche e la necessità di un coordinamento tra i singoli istituti, da realizzare nel quadro di una legislazione nazionale organica.

The De Bibliothecis Romanorum is a phd dissertation discussed by Christian Curio in 1734. In this dissertation is reconstructed the history of ancient roman libraries in 25 chapters, with a lot of information and an innovative method. The praefatoria and the greek little poem included in the dissertation are published for the first time in this paper.

A new interpretation of a passage of Epiphanius’ De mensuris et ponderibus, chapter 9 is proposed. Considering the text resulting from the manuscript tradition and from the corrections made by the editors of Epiphanius, we gain two conclusions: 1) the text of the older codices Vaticani is not correct for the sense; 2) the better text of a group of later codices, that is satisfying for the sense and for the grammar, was misunderstood by some editors, producing a wrong interpretation of the whole passage: the king Ptolemy Philadelphus knew from Demetrius Phalereus that existed a people, ancestor of the Romans, called Latins by the Greeks of the early III century b.C. If this is true, the king may have been in search of the Latins’ books for his library.

The paper includes a detailed report of the conference held in Rome (27 and 28 September 2018), at the Sapienza University of Rome, entitled What happened in the library? = Cosa è successo in biblioteca? Readers and libraries from historical investigations to current issues = Lettori e biblioteche tra indagine storica e problemi attuali.

Si presenta il report del seminario internazionale di ricerca in storia delle biblioteche tenutosi presso La Sapienza Università di Roma il 27 e 28 settembre 2018, dal titolo “What happened in the library? Cosa è successo in biblioteca? Readers and libraries from historical investigations to current issues. Lettori e biblioteche tra indagine storica e problemi attuali”, coordinato dal Dottorato di ricerca in scienze documentarie, linguistiche e letterarie dell’ateneo. Due le sessioni della prima giornata: una sessione mattutina dedicata a Biblioteche, lettori, storia, attualità: orizzonti aperti, una sessione pomeridiana intitolata Le biblioteche pubbliche oggi tra irrilevanza, conflittualità e consumismo. La seconda giornata si è aperta con la sessione Domande, risposte e nuove domande della ricerca storica sull’uso delle biblioteche; l’ultima sessione ha riguardato Luoghi della lettura collettiva e cultura del Novecento: ricerche per una mappa. Lo scopo del seminario, mediante le ricerche originali presentate e i confronti internazionali sull’uso e la frequentazione delle biblioteche, è stato quello di analizzare, con una prospettiva storica, il ruolo sociale delle biblioteche, in particolare delle biblioteche pubbliche, e la loro importanza nella crescita culturale e personale degli utenti.

The article, based on previously published studies and new historical sources, treats the profiles of some libraries belonged to religious Orders, noble families and of some private and public libraries in the County of Gorizia between 17th and early 18th century. The article wants to be a starting point for large-scale library history researches useful to acquiring new knowledge on cultural history and about the presence of books in the Gorizia area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the figure and works of Angelo Zambardo (16th- 17th century), a friar of the Congregation of the Hermits of Blessed Peter of Pisa and a minor poet, recorded in poetry anthologies and bibliographies either as being from Ferrara or Padua, in fact confounding his identity as two individuals with the same name. In addition to the few documents available, his biography can be enlightened through his book inventory, now collected in the manuscript Vat. Lat. 11292, drawn up by himself and sent to comply with the request of the Congregation of the Index of Forbidden Books as he was based in the convent of S. Maria della Rosa in Ferrara (1600). This source makes possible to explore the workshop of a minor poet of the sixteenth century and to reconsider his literary production – comprising religious, encomiastic and satirical rhymes, amongst which the previously unknown Betulia liberata. Iudith, printed in Padua in 1590.

Study texts transmission implies also to study the libraries that have preserved and allowed to read these texts. The birth of modern library has to be found in several key events of Modernity. Among them French Revolution had a main role: this shocking event gave birth to the idea of ‘National Library’, meant as library owned by and built for the citizens who constitute the Nation.

The book La “libraria” settecentesca di San Francesco del Monte a Perugia. Non oculis mentibus esca, edited by Fiammetta Sabba, with collaboration of Maria Paola Barlozzini (Perugia, Fabrizio Fabbri, 2015) is the occasion to reflect on the sources for religious orders library history – starting from the Congregation of the Index inquiry (1600) – and on their valuable contribution for the intellectual history of the same orders.

The History of Libraries is divided in two parts: one is the History of the Library, the other is the History of Libraries. The first one have to give a definition of the Library, find the origins and highlight the processes of growth and development. The second one have to tell the history of the most important and relevant libraries and of their influences on the evolution of a society or a nation. In this sense, the library has a high value when it is a valuable support to a job or a scientific activity. The bibliographic collection determines the quality of a library, and this quality is strictly connected to the selection of books. The bibliographic selection, in fact, when it is the result of a deliberate choice, creates a collection highly representative of the books at the time, giving to the scholar a faithful historical representation of the bibliographic reality and its relationships with the coeval cultural and scientific context. The great libraries created according to this accurate bibliographic selection permit to do a real History of Libraries, because of their highly representative collections and the cultural and scientific context of their development. For these reasons, the libraries have to possess two requirements in order to be worthy of historical attention: a clear and unequivocal bibliographic bond that bind all the books of the collections and a number of books enough elevate to constitute a representative view of the bibliographical reality at the time.

The paper traces the history of the Capuchin monastery libraries of Genoa, since the 1535 to the present day. The main sources used are the Capuchin Constitutions, the documents kept at the Provincial Archives and the library catalogs of the cloisters (including the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Minorum Ordinis S. Francisci Capuccinorum p. Dionisio from Genoa) and, finally, was some piece of news by private libraries. The story of the thirty-four cloister libraries is linked with the Provincial Library, which is representative of the Capuchin Province of Genoa and an important center for the conservation of all monastic book collections.

The publication of the Antiquaria Urbis in 1513 and Antiquitates Urbis in 1527 by Andrea Fulvio was important for the emerging history of libraries. Both of these books were inspired by the De mirabilibus Urbis by Francesco Albertini, so, as the pamphlet of the florentine priest did, they reserved a specific chapter to the ancient libraries. In these chapters Fulvio shows important new concepts, such as the etymological definition of the noun bibliotheca and the identification of a historical continuity among the Greek libraries, those in ancient Rome and the Vatican library. The story of the Scholars’ expedition and the designation of the Vatican library as the heir of the ancient libraries are important parts of a innovative model of ideal library proposed by Fulvio. The scholar shows that a modern library have to be active, not only a guardian of the tradition, and its main task should be building culture thanks to its books. In his masterpiece, therefore, the scholar not only identifies some of the key points of the reflection about libraries, but, pointing to the Vatican library as the supreme example for the contemporary libraries, anticipates much of tasks and features that the same library later would claim as its own.

Library Halls, understood as Renaissance and Baroque architectural creations, along with the furnishings and decorations, accomplish a cognitive task and serve to transmit knowledge. The design of these spaces based on the idea that they should reflect the merits and content of the collections housed within them, in order to prepare the mind of the reader to respect and admire the volumes. In accordance with this principle, in the fifteenth century library rooms had a basilican shape, with two or three naves, like churches, reflecting thus the spiritual value of the books contained there. Next to that inspiring function, library rooms had also the task of representing the entire logical and conceptual universe of human knowledge in a figurative way, including for this purpose also the and Kunst- und Wunderkammern, namely the collections of natural, artficial objects, and works of art. The importance of library rooms and their function was understood already in the early decades of the seventeenth century, as underlined in the treatise, Musei sive Bibliothecae tam privatae quam publicae Extructio, Instructio, Cura, Usus, written by the Jesuit Claude Clément and published in 1635. Almost the entire volume is dedicated to the decoration and ornamentation of the Saloni, and the function of the library is identified exclusively with the preservation and decoration of the collection, neglecting more specifically bibliographic aspects or those connected to library science. The architectural structure of the Saloni was destined to change in relation to two factors, namely the form of books, and the sources of light. As a consequence, from the end of the sixteenth century – or perhaps even before if one considers the fragments of the Library of Urbino belonging to Federico da Montefeltro – shelves and cabinets have been placed no longer in the center of the room, but were set against the walls. This new disposition of the furniture, surmounted by windows from which the light was supposed to come, left free space at the centre of the hall, where the desks, statues, globes and astrolabes were placed. A new flourishing of library rooms according to this view was largely due to the genius of Francesco Borromini, who designed and built the Hall of the Library Vallicelliana modeled on the one of the Barberina Library, and then subsequently worked at the Hall of the library of the Sapienza, the Innocenziana and the Pamphilia. Borromini was therfore the main force behind some of the major projects of Saloni of the Baroque, and his architectural solutions became a paradigm for the design of such environments. In the following centuries, many Library Halls were built troughout Europe, increasingly differentiating each other both for the celebratory function of their collections, and for their role as testimony of civilization and culture of the time in which they arose.

The De Bibliothecis Syntagma Justus Lipsius (1602) was the starting point of the libraries' modern history, influencing Federico Borromeo for the foundation of the Ambrosian Library and inspiring Gabriel Naudè for his Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque. A close comparison between the chapters devoted to the libraries of ancient Rome and the writings of Encyclopedists, Antiquarians and Italian and German Scholars - who discussed the same topic - shows which were the methodological and conceptual innovations introduced by Lipsius in the history of libraries, that is critical analysis and philological sources, accompanied by their rational organization. Using a very well known and familiar genre, just like the antiquarian treatise is, Lipsius showed in Syntagma a profoundly innovative idea of Library, represented by the Museum of Alexandria and its characteristics of universality and freedom of thought and expression.

The writing is part of a wider research on the private library of the Marquis Gabriello Riccardi, then merged in Riccardiana Library. The main focus are the Riccardiani manuscripts, that have belonged to the Ricci family of Florence. The largest group of these manuscripts is characterized by a special mark placed on the first sheet, frequently together with a note: "De Ricci". The investigation led to the identification of 38 manuscripts – that are actually in Riccardiana Library, in Moreniana and in the National Library of Florence – belonging to Corso de' Ricci, who lived in the XVIII century. The manuscripts were purchased by Gabriel Riccardi probably around 1755. Many other members of the Ricci family have left their mark on the Riccardiani manuscripts, and the author have identified them and reconstructed the relationship among each other.

Every library is the result of a selection of the books available at the moment its acquisition, following economic or spatial constraints. This process roots in the discovery and spread of the printing press and the exponential growth of the offers of books, that required a constant and considered selection of the objects to be bought and preserved, as already underlined by Conrad Gesner in the mid of the 16th century. The constancy of this selection produces a chronological stratification of the books funds. This stratification reflects the scientific and historical-critical evolution of the criteria according to which the selection has been carried on through the time. As a consequence the evaluation of the quality of the resulting collection has to take into account three criteria: the publishing supply of the different epochs; the span of time in which the collection has been created, the relationship between the collection and the cultures she has reflected over the centuries. An objective evaluation of the effects produced by these three parameters must also take into account the specificities of the creative process leading to the formation of a collection. When the analysis of all these aspects highlights a reasoned and precise project, the value of the collection can be considered higher than the sum of the single book units. The resulting library raised in a historically meaningful individual body.

The value of a library can be defined only through the bibliographic project underpinning its existence, the influence of this project on other libraries, and the efficacy of its “book vessel” (vaso librario) in illustrating concretely the noetic synthesis of the cognitive universe represented by the books. In this context, the library of the Franciscans of Monteripido in Perugia is certainly a peak of excellence in the library landscape, since the bibliographic structure of its collection and its fund fully satisfy the criteria of quality. The reconstruction of the collection – in the process of being completed by Fiammetta Sabba and Maria Paola Barlozzini basing of the two preserved author indexes of 1790 and 1795 – will provide evidence of this. Finally, a quick review of the titles of the cartouche extra armaria highlights the value of the library hall, that diverging from the tradition, celebrates the ideals of morality, civilization, and science, that permeated the consciousness of their creators and of the scholarly community in Perugia.