Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries as Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change (Academy of Finland and Ģֱ no. 307635, 2017-2022)
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This book historical project a) reconstructed six, demonstrably important but hitherto poorly studied collections known to have existed in the period considered, b) examined the preserved volumes for annotations and other reader reactions, placed in their cultural context and c) studied available (near-)contemporaneous metatexts (library histories, mentions of a given library in texts produced by readers, etc.) on the collections under consideration, in order to assess the role of the six libraries in preserving and transmitting knowledge as well as catalysing new ways of thinking.
The project pursued and developed the book historical methodology and draw upon the findings of the PI’s AoF book historical projects no. 121785 Books in transition (2008-2011, BIT) and no. 267518 Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2013-2017, Tralmar), thus breaking new ground in the study of the formation, intellectual role and social impact of book collections.
Calendar of events
2017
1 September 2017
The project starts
20 September 2017
Department of Language and Communication Studies, Research Fair
29 September 2017
Researchers' Night: Kirjoja! Kirjoja! Books! Books!
University Library (B), room 232, 4-6 p.m.
13 November 2017
Viva: Miika Kuha's PhD dissertation,
Transmission of Knowledge in Venetian Fourteenth-Century Chronicles
Opp. Dr. Marino Zabbia, University of Turin
Ģֱ, Main Building Capitolium, Hall 2. 12 o'clock noon
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2018
26 January 2018
Finnland-Institut, Georgenstrasse 24, 10117 Berlin
Heartfelt thanks (again) to Suvi Wartiovaara and thefor excellent workshopping conditions! Our deepest gratitude to Dr. Eef Overgaauw and Dr. Robert Giel for letting us look at some exciting manuscripts of the !
8 March 2018
4 p.m.
Presentation of Autographa II.1. Donne, sante e madonne edited by Giovanna Murano at the Library of the Italian Senate, Rome
19-24 March 2018
Ninth Book Historical Week
Department of Language and Communication Studies, Ģֱ
Featuring project members and Irene Ceccherini (The Bodleian Library) and Marilena Maniaci (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio).
Detailed programme
29 March 2018
Seminar
organised by Iolanda Ventura, University of Bologna
Seminario di Filologia Moderna, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Aula Forti, V. Zamboni 32, Bologna
3 p.m.
Manoscritti latini in biblioteche moderne
Outi Merisalo, Presentazione del progetto Lamemoli
Patrizia Carmassi, HAB, Marquardt Gude (1635-1689) and his manuscripts
19-20 April 2018
Colloquium
Questa penna, questa man, questo inchiostro. Centri di scrittura e scritture femminili nel Medioevo e nella prima Età moderna
Organised by Giovanna Murano, Lamemoli, with the collaboration of the École française de Rome
École française de Rome, Piazza Navona
Detailed programme .
26-28 September 2018
Fourth NNRS Conference
Renaissance Libraries and the Organisation of Information
Organised by the Association for Classical Philology of Finland in collaboration with the LaMeMoLi project
House of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki
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2019
23-24 January
Danish Academy, Via Omero 16, 00197 Rome.
Thanks to Marianne Pade, director, and the wonderful personnel of the Academy for a memorable meeting!
L to R: Francesca Niutta, Leonardo Magionami, Sofia Orsini, Marie-Hélène Tesnière, Iolanda Ventura, Giovanna Murano, Benjamin Hübbe, Jakub Kujawinski, Vivian Nutton, Susanna Niiranen and Stefania Fortuna
25-30 March
Tenth Book Historical Week
25-27 March
2.15 - 3.45 p.m. Mon F(ennicum) 105, Tues F 205, Wed F105
Iolanda Ventura, University of Bologna, The transmission of Ancient Medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Iolanda Ventura and Albrecht Classen in discussion
4.15-5.45 p.m. F 205
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona (Tucson), The Game of Courtly Love in Old French, Middle High German, and Medieval Italian Love Poetry
28-30 March
1-3 April 2019
4-6 p.m. Mon S(eminarium) 304, Tues S203, Mon S304
Marie-Hélène Tesnière (conservateur émérite, Bibliothèque Nationale de France),
La bibliothèque de Charles V
13 June 2019
Publication of
27 September 2019
Researchers' Night: Kirjoja! Kirjoja! Books! Books!
Venue: S(eminarium) 303, 4-6 p.m.
Project members present their research and University Library incunables
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2020
4-5 February 2020
Women in Manuscript studies
an international seminar organised by the project in collaboration with the Doctoral School in Literary and Historical Sciences in the Digital Age, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Venue: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Dipartimento di lettere e filosofia, Aula Magna.
Programme .
19-20 November 2020
Third Lamemoli workshop (Zoom)
Programme .
27-28 November 2020
(NB change of dates due to the coronavirus infection in spring 2020)
Eleventh Book Historical Week (Zoom
Full programme !
27 November 2020
Researchers' Night: Books! Books!
4-6 p.m.
Lamemoli members presenting their research and showing incunables. Programme .
28 November 2020
Lamemoli Seminar
Programme .
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2021
18-20 March 2021
Twelfth Book Historical Week (Zoom)
Full programme !
12-15 April 2021, 3-5 p.m. CET (4-6 p.m. EET)
Martina Pantarotto, Università E-campus, Novedrate
Le biblioteche degli ordini mendicanti
Virtual Erasmus+ course
17 April 2021, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Future of Manuscript Studies (FuMast), Second Edition (Google Meet)
organised by the CIPL, APICES, CNRS, AIMD, AIPD, Società internazionale di storia della miniatura, Università di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale - Laboratorio LibeR - Libro e Ricerca and Lamemoli.
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24 September 2021
Researchers' Night: Kirjoja! Kirjoja! Books! Books! (Zoom)
4-6 p.m. EEST (= 3-5 p.m. CEST)
18 November 2021
Translations in libraries. The status of translations in book collections from the early modern period to the present (Zoom)
4.00-6.00 p.m. EEST = (3.00-5.00 p.m. CEST)
Seminar organised in collaboration with the project A new take on the Bible: the conditions that shaped biblical criticism in Renaissance Italy (1447-1484), financed by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) and Utrecht University (no. 016.Veni.195.146), 1 January 2019-28 February 2022, of Annet Den Haan (a.denhaan(a)uu.nl), JYU visiting fellow (Oct-Nov 2021)
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2022
10-11 March 2022
The Lamemoli Colloquium
Siena, Aula magna storica del Rettorato
Thanks to the University of Siena for wonderful hospitality!
The participants from left to right (upper row): Benjamin Wallura, Taneli Puputti, Simone Allegria, Leonardo Magionami, Rector Magnificus Francesco Frati, Natasha Golob, Bernd Roling; (front row): Patrizia Carmassi, Marianne Pade, Annet den Haan, Patricia Osmond, Donatella Nebbiai, Outi Merisalo, Stefania Fortuna, Iolanda Ventura and Jakub Kujawinski. Photo Trine Arlund Hass. Missing four participants on Zoom: Lorenzo Amato, Concetta Bianca, Francesca Niutta and Marie-Hélène Tesnière.
Publications
O. Merisalo - N. Golob - L. Magionami, eds. . Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change. Bibliologia 68. Turnhout 2023.
Lorenzo Amato
Books
La tradizione manoscritta delle 'Rime' di Giovan Battista Strozzi il Vecchio. Censimento dei testimoni e incipitario delle poesie. Firenze 2019.
Articles
'Bartolomeo del Bene, l'Accademia degli Alterati, e il Libro dell'Anno (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. Lat. 8857)', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 277-291.
'“I più dolci di stile che ci sieno”. Le Lune o Endimioni di Giovan Battista Strozzi il Giovane. Edizione critica e commento', T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18/2022, 29-46.
'"E vostro nome non vedrà mai sera". La poesia degli Accademici Alterati e il ms. Vat. Lat. 8858', Esperienze letterarie 46/2021, 55-96.
'Le ‘Pٰ’ di Michelangelo Serafini: edizione critica e commento', Medioevo e Rinascimento n.s. 31/2020, 185-230.
'Dante Alighieri e la neve delle antiche ere. La Commedia finnica di Eino Leino', D. Ceccherini - D. Derni - M. Meli - S. Saccardi - M. Seriacopi, edd. Dante. Quando la poesia di Dante si fa universale. Testimonianze 64.1-2/2021, 286-291.
'Il Male non è solo quello metafisico. Dante interpretato da due pittori giapponesi', D. Ceccherini - D. 'Derni - M. Meli - S. Saccardi - M. Seriacopi, edd. Dante. Quando la poesia di Dante si fa universale. Testimonianze 64.1-2/2021, 292-297.
'Gemme, perle e pietre dure: la lirica di Torquato Tasso e le poesie 'petrose' del Cinquecento italiano', Studi italici 70/2020, 23-49.
'Mario Colonna, I “Quattordici madrigali sopra una pietra” del ms. BNCF Magl. VII 1388: edizione critica e commento, Medioevo e Rinascimento 33/n.s. 30/2019, 285-317.
'Strozzi, Giovan Battista, detto il Vecchio', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 94/2019, , 12 July 2019.
Blogs
'The Cosmic Anxiety of Small Things. Literary Culture, Galileo Galilei and the Scientific Revolution', , 6 September 2021.
Papers
'I manoscritti degli Alterati e di Strozzi il Giovane', Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022.
'The Secondo of the Alterati. The (almost) official poetic anthology of a late-Renaissance Florentine academy, Vat. Lat. 8858 of the Vatican Library', Books! Books! Researchers' Night, Zoom 24 September 2021.
Invited participation in . A Roundtable Discussion on Tuscan Academies, 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Virtual), 14 April 2021.
'La poesia degli Accademici Alterati: il manoscritto Vat. lat. 8858', Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Seminario Giuliano Tanturli, University of Florence, 22 March 2021
'Da attività collettiva a possedimento privato presso la biblioteca di Giovan Battista Strozzi il Giovane. La poesia degli Accademici Alterati riscoperta nel codice Vat. Lat. 8858', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020.
'Gemme, perle e pietre dure. La lirica di Torquato Tasso e le poesie ‘petrose’ del Cinquecento fiorentino', LXVII Convegno annuale dell'Associazione di Studi Italiani in Giappone, Kagoshima, 26 October 2020.
'La macchia e il difetto di Torquato Tasso. Una lettura formale e filosofica delle rime dedicate al neo', LXVI Convegno Annuale dell'Associazione di Studi Italiani in Giappone, Kyoto, 20 October 2018.
'First notes on Giovan Battista Strozzi the Younger's Roman library', Renaissance libraries and the organisation of information. Fourth NNRS Conference, Helsinki 26-28 September 2018.
Miika Kuha
Articles
'The early formation of Leonardo Donà’s collection of printed books and manuscripts in the light of his autograph library catalogue, TECA 15–16/2019, 21–50.
''The Reception of Humanist Historiography in Venice. Simultaneous Copying of the De gestis, moribus et nobilitate civitatis Venetiarum by Lorenzo de' Monaci at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century', O. Merisalo - M. Kuha - S. Niiranen, eds. Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Bibliologia 53. Turnhout 2019, 141-152,
M.Kuha - S. Niiranen, ’Kirjastojen monet roolit keskiajalla ja uuden ajan alussa – katsaus kirjastohistorian menetelmiin ja nykysuuntauksiin’. Kasvatus & Aika 12.2 /2018, 96–101, ! [‘Many roles of medieval and early modern libraries – an overview of methods and contemporary trends in library history’]
Papers
'The library of Doge Leonardo Donà (1536–1612)', Renaissance libraries and the organisation of information. Fourth NNRS Conference, Helsinki 26-28 September 2018.
'Tekstitraditioista tulkintaan – kirjahistorian näkökulma Venetsian myöhäiskeskiaikaiseen historiankirjoitukseen [From textual traditions to interpretation. The book historical point of view on Late Medieval Venetian historiography], Paideia. The Classical association of Turku 26 April 2018.
'The library of Leonardo Donà', Ninth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Jyväskylä 24 March 2018.
'The library of Leonardo Donà', First Lamemoli workshop, Berlin 25-27 January 2018.
Jakub Kujawinski
Articles
'Established Libraries as a Destination for Newly Published Works in a Manuscript Culture Medieval Authors’ Perspectives', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 51-69.
'Between the ancient model and its Humanistic revival: the notion of bibliotheca publica in the Middle Ages', M. Delimata-Proch - A. Krawiec - J. Kujawiński, eds. Totius mundi philohistor. Studia Georgio Strzelczyk octuagenario oblata. Poznań 2021, 415-429.
Papers
'Institutional Libraries as Destination of Newly Published Works in Manuscript Culture', Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022
'The charm of miscellanies. The manuscript Vat. lat. 5001 from the Vatican Library', Books! Books! Researchers' Night, Zoom 24 September 2021
'Dominican author and his readerships: the target audiences and effective early readers of the works of Nicholas Trevet (c. 1258 – c. 1334), Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology, Virtual Conference, 29 June – 2 July 2021
'Between the ancient model and its Humanistic revival. The notion of bibliotheca publica in the Middle Ages', Twelfth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 20 March 2021
'Early provenances of manuscripts with works of Nicholas Trevet (c. 1258 – 1334)', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020
'Medieval libraries as a means of publishing', Second Lamemoli workshop, Rome 23-24 January 2019
'Manuscript evidence in research on medieval publishing. A report on an ongoing project', Ninth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Jyväskylä 24 March 2018
'The Library of Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The state-of-the-art and the desiderata', First Lamemoli workshop, Berlin 25-27 January 2018
Outi Merisalo
Books
O. Merisalo - N. Golob - L. Magionami, eds. . Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change. Bibliologia 68. Turnhout 2023.
T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022.
Articles
'Pico’s Latin Manuscripts. Palaeographical and Codicological Observations', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 227-241.
'Publishing in Laurentian Florence. Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s Edition of Poggio’s Historiae Florentini populi', S. Niskanen, ed. with the assistance of V. Rovere, The Art of Publication from the Ninth to the Sixteenth Centuries. IPM 93. Turnhout 2023, 335-350,
'Textual Criticism', Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, DOI: 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO387-1, 22 June 2023.
'Montefeltro, Family of', Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, DOI: 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO326-1, 22 June 2023.
'Della Torre Family', Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, DOI: 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO336-1, 22 June 2023.
'Della Tosa Family', Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, DOI: 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO385-1, 22 June 2023.
'Mabillon, Traube, Lowe and Bischoff: Four Palaeographers', Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, DOI: 10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO382-1, 22 June 2023.
'The Twelfth-century Manuscript of Constantine the African’s Theorica Pantegni at the National Library of Finland', G. Abbamonte - M. Skafte Jensen - M. Pade. eds. Ipsissima verba. Essays in honour of Johann Ramminger. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 19/2022, 163-170.
'“Iam nouus in terras alto descendit Olympo Iuppiter”. Patronage and propaganda in the time of Leo X (1513–1521)', T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18/2022, 293-306.
'Quod licet principi, licet etiam principissae? L’educazione di maschi e femmine secondo Vergerio e Bruni', R. Fresu - G. Murgia - P. Serra, edd. Maschile/Femminile nella letteratura di formazione dalle culture antiche all'età contemporanea. Modelli, rappresentazioni, stereotipi. 1.1. Perugia 2021, 273-288.
'V. Poggio Bracciolini', F. della Schiava - G. Claessens, eds. Augustine and the Humanists. Reading the City of God from Petrarch to Poliziano. Colibri. Collected Studies in History and Literature. Gent 2021, 69-82.
'La fortune du De spermate dans les éditions imprimées de Galien du XVIe au XVIIe', C. Petit - S. Swain - K.D. Fischer, eds. Pseudo-Galenica. The Formation of the Galenic Corpus from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Warburg Institute Colloquia 34. London 2021, 189-198.
S. Fortuna - O. Merisalo, 'The first Latin translation of Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (II)', Scripta 13/2020, 79-86.
'Niccolò de’ Conti in India: visioni filtrate di culture orientali nel Quattrocento romano', F. Niutta, ed. I romani e l'altrove. Viaggi e paesi reali e immaginati
nel Rinascimento. Roma nel Rinascimento inedita 90. Saggi. Roma 2020, 131-142.
'1.3 Book production and collection', Ph. Roelli, ed. Handbook of Stemmatology. History, Methodology, Digital Approaches. Berlin - Boston 2020, 24-32.
'Urbes antiquissimae: Renaissance influences in descriptions of towns and cities of seventeenth-eighteenth-century Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae', C. Horster - M. Pade, eds. Cultural Encounter and Identity in the Neo-Latin World. Analecta Instituti Danici Supplementa 54. Roma 2020, 239-246.
'Alla scoperta di biblioteche tardomedievali e del primo periodo moderno. Il progetto Lamemoli (Accademia di Finlandia e Università di Jyväskylä no. 307635, 2017-2021)', Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia. Semestrale di cultura delle biblioteche e delle istituzioni culturali 2020, 21-28.
'. Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence', R. Ricci - E. Pumroy, eds. Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity. Textual and Material Traditions. Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016. Atti. Firenze 2020, 25-40.
'Medical works in the library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. A preliminary survey', M.L. Monfort - M. Witt, éds. Quid est modestia ? Mélanges de médecine ancienne en l'honneur de Klaus-Dietrich Fischer. Medicina nei secoli 32.1/2020, 177-184.
'', R. Brown-Grant - P. Carmassi - G. Drossbach - A. D. Hedeman - V. Turner - I. Ventura, eds. 66. Berlin - Basel - Beijing - Boston - Munich 2020, 289-303.
, G. Murano, ed. "Questa penna, questa man, questo inchiostro". Centri di scrittura e scritture femminili nel Medioevo e nella prima Età moderna. MEFr Moyen Âge 131-2/2019, 337-342.
Blogs
'', , 1 March 2021
'Giovanni Pico della Mirandolan kirjastoa tutkimassa', , 4 December 2018
Papers
'Pico’s Latin manuscripts. Palaeographical and codicological aspects', Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022.
'La cultura libraria intorno a Clas Ekeblad il Giovane (1708-1771), ԱDzé di Svezia presso la corte di Francia (1742-1744)', Diplomatici e libri in età moderna tra vecchi e nuovi mondi, Università di Roma I - La Sapienza, 20-21 September 2021 (Meet).
'La mise en page dei codici contenenti il De spermate pseudo-galenico', Le livre scientifique médiéval. Quand la forme influence le fond. Workshop italo-francais, Università di Bologna et Collège de France, 25 June 2021 (Teams).
'Beatus Augustinus uir doctissimus inter Latinos. Poggio Bracciolini and Augustine', Augustine and the Humanists. A colloquium organised by KU Leuven, Academia Belgica and Accademia di Danimarca, 28-30 April 2021 (Zoom).
'Publishing in Laurentian Florence. Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s edition of Poggio’s Historiae Florentini populi', keynote lecture at Authorial Publishing from the Carolingian Period to the Renaissance. A colloquium organized by the ERC MedPub project and the project Authorial Publication in the Early Medieval Period (Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki), 29-30 October 2020.
'Historiae Florentini populi di Poggio Bracciolini. Una storia alternativa di Firenze', Women in Manuscript Studies, Cassino 4-5 February 2020.
'Per la ricostruzione della biblioteca di Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)', Università Cattolica di Milano, 19 March 2019
'In einer humanistischen Werkstatt. Die Bibliothek von Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)', Bibliotheken im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. SCRIPTO-Tagung Erlangen, 5-7 December 2018
'La biblioteca di Pico della Mirandola', Ninth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Jyväskylä 24 March 2018.
Giovanna Murano
Books
La collezione Pico-Grimani nel Cinquecento. Gli inventari "M" e "Correr". Studi pichiani 21. Firenze 2023.
La biblioteca arabo-ebraica di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Studi e Testi 550. Città del Vaticano 2022.
G. Murano, ed. "Questa penna, questa man, questo inchiostro". Centri di scrittura e scritture femminili nel Medioevo e nella prima Età moderna. MEFr Moyen Âge 131-2/2019, .
Articles
‘Niccolò da Cusa, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ed il ms. Vat. lat. 4071’, Th. Woelki - J. Helmrath, hrsg. Landesherrschaft und Kirchenreform im 15.Jahrhundert. Studien zum zweiten Band der Acta Cusana. Beihefte zu den Acta Cusana 1. Hamburg 2023, 425-435.
ҵ&Բ;Tahāfut al-Tahāfut di Averroè tradotto per Roberto d’Angiò. Note sulla tradizione manoscritta latina', Micrologus. Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies, 31/2023, 259-273.
‘Una raccolta agiografica su san Martino di Tours (Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J VI 18), Hagiographica, 29/2022, 1-9.
'Una miscellanea astrologico-astronomica', T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18/2022, 307-320.
'Un ‘codice d’autore’ di Elia del Medigo appartenuto a Pico della Mirandola. Osservazioni sul ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 6508', G. Licata - P. Terracciano, edd. La lama del sapiente. Saggi sulla filosofia di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Clavis 13. Pisa 2022, 141-177.
'Una bibliotheca mathematica (Ms. Firenze, BNC, Conv. Soppr. J V 18)', Pecia 24/2021, 121-142.
‘L Guida dei perplessi di Maimonide nella biblioteca di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 63/2021, 365-382.
'Ser Piero Cennini, copista ed editore’, La Bibliofilia 123/2021, 209-236.
‘L collezione arabo-ebraica di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’, Materia giudaica 25/2020, 291-301.
‘Giovanni Pico della Mirandola lettore dell'Expositio super libros Ethicorum di Donato Acciaiuoli (ms. Firenze, BNC, Conv. Soppr. J III 26)’, Rinascimento 61/2021, 475-494.
'Un ‘Buridano’ appartenuto a Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Padova, Bibl. Univ. 1472)', Scriptorium 74/2020, 115-121.
'Tra scienza, astrologia e magia. Un nuovo manoscritto di Pierleone da Spoleto', Archivum mentis 8/2019, 249-273.
''Per la biblioteca di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Ricerche sugli incunaboli', La Bibliofilia 121.1/2019, 5-46.
'Opere di Elia del Medigo nella biblioteca di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola', Miscellanea Bibliothecae Vaticanae 25/2019, 333-370.
'Il manoscrItto della Destructio Destructionum di Averroè appartenuto a Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Napoli, Biblioteca NazIonale, VIII E 31)', Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 60/2018, 67-80.
'La biblioteca di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: un primo censimento', Scriptorium 72/2018, 213-250.
Papers
‘L biblioteca di Pico ricostruita’, Pico’s Library Rebuilt – La biblioteca di Pico ricostruita. Workshop Internazionale di Studi, Bologna, Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII, 26 November 2021.
'Giovanni Pico, Girolamo Benivieni e il Commento al Pater noster', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020.
'A New Look at Pico’s Library', West European Manuscripts and Charters from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period in Saint Petersburg Collections. Research, Catalogization and Digitization, Saint Petersburg, 19-22 September 2019.
'Manoscritti ebraici di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola', Ebraismo fra peculiarità e interculturalità. XXXIIIo convegno internazionale dell'AISG 2019, Ravenna 2-4 settembre 2019.
'Un nuovo postillato di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola', Second Lamemoli workshop, Rome 23-24 January 2019.
'Nuove acquisizioni di libri appartenuti a Giovanni Pico della Mirandola', Renaissance libraries and the organisation of information. Fourth NNRS Conference, Helsinki 26-28 September 2018.
'The library of Pico della Mirandola', First Lamemoli workshop, Berlin 25-27 January 2018.
Susanna Niiranen
Articles
'Cultural Perspectives on Printed Works in Sigismund II Augustus’ Library', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 35-48.
'Sigismund II Augustus’ Volumes in Åbo Akademi Library, Finland: Renaissance Books in a Transnational, National and Regional Context', Scando-Slavica 8.2/2022, 224-238.
'“Optime educatus”: Book historical perspectives on Prince Sigismund’s education in sixteenth-century Sweden', T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18/2022, 321-336.
'Viipurilainen musiikkielämä Savonlinnassa', S. Grünthal - K. Korjonen-Kuusipuro, toim. Diasporan Viipuri. Muistojen kaupunki sotien jälkeen. Viipurin Suomalaisen Kirjallisuusseuran toimitteita 23. Helsinki 2021, 79-83.
'Continuing Family Bonds after Death: Catherine and Isabella’, Máté, A. – Oborní, T., eds. Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary(1539-1559). Studies. Budapest 2020, 131-142.
'Hyvinvointia kansankielellä: Kristillinen kulttuuri keskiajan resepteissä', Teologinen Aikakauskirja 4/2019, 292-307
'Katariina Jagellonica ja dynastisen pukeutumisen taito. Analyysi 1550-luvun maalauksesta', A. Niiranen - A. Turunen, eds. Säädyllistä ja säädytöntä. Pukeutumisen historiaa renessanssista 2000-luvulle. Helsinki 2019, 53-87 [Catherine Jagiellon and the art of dressing dynastically. An analysis of a 1550s painting]
'Keskiajalla kansa edisti parantumista kaikin keinoin', Teologia.fi. Teema 2019/3 Uskonto ja parantaminen, [In the Middle Ages, the people did their utmost to heal]
'From Prison to Print. Johannes Messenius' Scondia illustrata as an Early Example of Prison Writing', O. Merisalo - M. Kuha - S. Niiranen, eds. Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Bibliologia 53. Turnhout 2019, 153-165,
M.Kuha - S. Niiranen, ’Kirjastojen monet roolit keskiajalla ja uuden ajan alussa – katsaus kirjastohistorian menetelmiin ja nykysuuntauksiin’. Kasvatus & Aika. 12.2 /2018, 96–101, ! [‘Many roles of medieval and early modern libraries – an overview of methods and contemporary trends in library history’]
'Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden : Counselling Between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas', H. Matheson-Pollock - J. Paul - C. Fletcher, eds. Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe. Queenship and Power. London - New York - Shanghai 2018, 83-110
Blogs
'Pandemioiden tutkimus vie aikaa – vertailu hankalaa', 20 April 2020
'Kirjojen matkassa: Jagellojen renessanssikirjaston reitit' blog, 14 March 2020
Papers
'Building ‘Western’ identity in East Central and Northern Europe. Sigismund II Augustus’ library, Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022.
'From a lost Renaissance library. A volume from King Sigismund II Augustus’ collection, Turku, Åbo Akademi Library, HB Gad. 1273/4', Books! Books! Researchers' Night, Zoom 24 September 2021.
'Spolia. Jagiellonian books as examples of war booty in seventeenth-century Sweden', Twelfth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 20 March 2021.
'Educating Prince Sigismund. Book historical considerations', Eleventh Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 28 November 2020.
'Book historical perspectives on Prince Sigismund’s education. From Swedish pragmatism towards European humanism', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020.
Panel discussion, participation in: Think corner, University of Helsinki, 16 October 2019, 2-4 p.m. [They believe they heal, they heal through faith?]
'Catherine and Isabella Jagiellon – Creating a Bond to the Late Sister', Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (1519–1559). A Memorial Conference. Budapest, 28 February – 1 March 2019, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
'Some itineraries of the Jagiellonian books. Biblio-geographical considerations', Second Lamemoli workshop, Rome 23-24 January 2019.
'The “library” of Duke John of Finland and Duchess Catherine Jagiellon during their imprisonment in Gripsholm Castle in 1563-1566', Ninth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Jyväskylä 24 March 2018.
'Books as the Jagiellonian cultural heritage in Scandinavia', First Lamemoli workshop, Berlin 25-27 January 2018.
Marianne Pade
Articles
'Pico’s Multilingual Pentateuch', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 243-256.
Papers
'Some observations on Pico’s Greek Manuscripts', Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022.
'A fashion statement. The dedication copy of Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae',
Twelfth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 20 March 2021.
'A ‘new’ editio princeps of Lorenzo Valla’s translation of Thucydides? The BAV, Chigi J VIII 276, Giovanni Andrea Bussi and the library of Francesco Piccolomini?', Eleventh Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 28 November 2020.
'Some observations on Pico’s Greek manuscripts', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020.
'Storage of books - storage of knowledge', Renaissance libraries and the organisation of information. Fourth NNRS Conference, Helsinki 26-28 September 2018.
Bernd Roling
Books
Odins Imperium. Der Rudbeckianismus als Paradigma an den skandinavischen Universitäten (1680–1860) 1-2. Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 54. Leiden 2020
Articles
'Archives against Myths. The Hanover Historian Johann Heinrich Jung (1715-1799) and the Counts of Bentheim', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 161-177
'Suarez, Poza und die Grenzen der theologischen Neugier. Debatten über
den Leib Mariens zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit', R. A. Schneider – A. Speer, hrsg. Curiositas. Miscellanea Mediaevalia 42. Berlin 2022, 84–133
'Ignis fatuus: Debatten über das Irrlicht in der lateinischen frühneuzeitlich-protestantischen Universitätskultur', T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18/2022, 393-410
'Caspar Abel, Sassine', D. Werle - U. M. Korn - K. Worms, hrsg. Repertorium epischer Versdichtungen im deutschen Kulturraum des 17. Jahrhunderts (forthcoming)
'Caspar Abels 'Sassine‘: Eine Apologie des Niederdeutschen im 18. Jahrhundert, A. Schneider – M. Baisch – R. Töpfer, hrsg. Von Widukind zur Sassine. Prozesse der Konstruktion und Transformation regionaler Identität im Norddeutschen Raum. Forschungen zu Kunst, Geschichte und Literatur des Mittelalters 4. Köln 2023, 59-98
'Mittelalterliche Mystik im Kreuzfeuer des Pietismusstreites. Der Wittenberger Theologe Martin Chladni (1669–1725) und seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Frauenmystik des Hochmittelalters', Pietismus und Neuzeit. Ein Jahrbuch zur Geschichte des neueren Protestantismus 46-47/2020-2021, 38-84
'Vom geplünderten Frauenkloster zur Genese der Mediävistik: Die Bibliothek der Academia Julia und der Beginn der Mittelalterstudien in Helmstedt', A. Speer – L. Reuke, hrsg., Die Bibliothek. Denkräume und Wissensordnungen. Miscellanea Mediaevalia 41. Berlin 2020, 793-818
Papers
'Archives Against Myths. The Hanoverian Librarian Johann Jung and the Counts of Bentheim', Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022
'Schlafwandler und Werwölfe. Frühneuzeitliche Konfrontationen mit dem Menschen außer sich', Die Grenzen des Sozialen. Kommunikation mit nicht-menschlichen Akteuren in der Vormoderne. Lecture series, Historisches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 21 June 2021
'Gerald of Wales and Saint Brigid’s Falcon. The Chaste Beast in Medieval and Early Modern Irish natural history',Twelfth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 20 March 2021
'Fighting against medieval pietism in Wittenberg. Hildegard of Bingen and Birgitta of Sweden in protestant controversies', Eleventh Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 28 November 2020
'Claiming space for the Low German in the libraries of Saxe. Caspar Abel
and his antiquarian epos Sassine (1738)', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020
'Helmstedter Zoologie im Umbruch: Friedrich Schrader (1657–1704) und die Naturphilosophie in Helmstedt’, Conference: Aristoteles und die Naturphilosophie an den mitteleuropäischen Universitäten der Frühen Neuzeit, 1600-1700/Aristotle and Natural Philosophy at Early Modern Central European Universities, 1600-1700, FU Berlin, 21-22 Nov 2019.
'Elfen, Feen und Sylphen. Die akademische Aufarbeitung der paracelsischen Zwischenwesen an den deutschen und skandinavischen Universitäten’, Wunder und Wunderbares. Eine Diskurs- und Disziplinengeschichte 18. Jahrhundertforschung IV. Universität Halle, 23 October.2019.
‘Vom geplünderten Frauenkloster zur Genese der Mediaevistik. Die Bibliothek der Academia Julia und der Beginn der Mittelalterstudien in Helmstedt’, Die Bibliothek. Denkräume und Wissensordnungen, 41. Kölner Mediävistentagung. Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, 10-14 Sept 2019; modified version in the Leibniz-Vorträge at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, 28 March 2019
'Renaissance libraries and the rise of early modern medieval studies. The case of the Academia Julia in Helmstedt', Plenary talk, Renaissance libraries and the organisation of information. Fourth NNRS Conference, Helsinki 26-28 September 2018
'Dedikation mittelalterlicher Literatur in der editorischen Praxis der Frühen Neuzeit', Ninth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Jyväskylä 24 March 2018
'Polycarp Leyser IV., Johann Georg Eckhardt and the Helmstedt manuscript collection. A first introduction', First Lamemoli workshop, Berlin 25-27 January 2018
‘Mittelalterpolemik und Lutherjahr’, lecture series Martin Luther und die Reformation. Tradition – Kontexte – Umbrüche’, Universität Bonn, 19 December 2017
Benjamin Wallura (né Hübbe)
Books
R. Kaiser - F. J. Noll - C. Selent - S. Spohner - B. Wallura, hrsg. Wissen und Geltung. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Dynamik kulturellen Wissens in Mittelalter und Neuzeit. Göttingen 2020
Articles
'Omnia ex archivis et fide dignis monumentis collecta. Heinrich Eckstorm’s Chronicon Walkenredense (1617) and the Archiving of Monastic Heritage in Brunswick-Lüneburg', Merisalo - Golob - Magionami, eds. 141-160
'Historians Hermesʼ Herb: Homer’s moly and Early Modern Iatrophilology', T. A. Hass - O. Merisalo, eds. Studia Humanitatis. Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18/2022, 491-512
'Virtutes docuit sedulitate bona. Johann Barthold Niemeier and the Teaching of Ethics in Late Seventeenth-Century Helmstedt', V. Lepri - D. Facca - M. Roick, eds. Teaching Ethics in Early Modern Europe. History of Universities 34.2. Special Issue. Oxford 2021, 97-111
'Nepenthes - Trank der Helena. Die umstrittene Identität eines 'homerischen' pharmakon in gelehrten Debatten des 17. Jahrhunderts', F. Schaffenrath - M.T. Santamaría Hernández, eds. Acta Conventus Neolatini Albasitensis. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Albacete 2018). Leiden 2020, 663-674
'Die Geltung von Geographie und geographischem Wissen - Petrus Bertius' Tabulae Geographicae contractae und die Beschreibung Arabiens um 1600', Kaiser - Noll - Selent - Spohner - Wallura 187-221
Blogs
'How to Guard and Take Care of a Library at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century? The Bibliotheca Rudolphea within Helmstedt University Library', , 17 August 2020
Papers
'Omnia ex archivis et fide dignis monumentis collecta. Heinrich Eckstorm’s Chronicon Walkenredense. Monastic Libraries and Early Modern Archival Practices and Politics in the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg', Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Lamemoli Final Colloquium, Siena 10-11 March 2022.
'To consent or not consent. The Footnote in Early Modern Academic Dissertations. The Case of Georg Engelbrecht’s Discursus iuridicus de peste et iuribus circa tempus pestis, Helmstedt, 1683; HAB Wolfenbüttel: H: 711 Helmst. Dr. (8a)', Books! Books! Researchers' Night, Zoom 24 September 2021.
'Medieval Scholarship and Guelfic Middle Ages. Joachim Johann Mader (1626–1680) and the Libraries of Brunswick-Lüneburg', Twelfth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 20 March 2021.
'Theory and Practice of Libraries in the Seventeenth-Century. The Case of the Helmstedt Academic Milieu and Beyond', Eleventh Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Zoom 28 November 2020.
'Friedrich August Hackemann (1670-c.1745): a Helmstedt Medievalist', Third Lamemoli workshop, Zoom 19-20 November 2020.
‘Aristoteles – Cui bono? Debatten über den Nutzen der aristotelischen Logik und Naturphilosophie an der Universität Helmstedt, 1650‒1700’, Aristoteles und die Naturphilosophie an den mitteleuropäischen Universitäten der Frühen Neuzeit, 1600-1700/Aristotle and Natural Philosophy at Early Modern Central European Universities, 1600-1700’, FU Berlin, 21-22 Nov 2019
'Barocke Mediävistik und welfisches Mittelalter. Joachim Johann Mader (1624-1680) und die Bibliotheken der Herzöge von Braunschweig-Lüneburg', Second Lamemoli workshop, Rome 23-24 January 2019
'Hermann von der Hardt (1660‒1747) on the transmission of Luther and on Reformation history', Renaissance libraries and the organisation of information. Fourth NNRS Conference, Helsinki 26-28 September 2018
'Early Medieval Studies at the University of Helmstedt after the End of the Thirty Years’ War. Hermann Conring’s Leonis III Papae Epistolae ad Carolum Magnum Imperatorem (1647/1655)', Ninth Book Historical Week, SLRC/Lamemoli, Jyväskylä 24 March 2018
'Semester start in Helmstedt . On the value of course catalogues for the study of library and university history', First Lamemoli workshop, Berlin 25-27 January 2018
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Corpus
The corpus consisted of the following sections. The choice of the specific six collections is motivated on the one hand by their having belonged to institutions (both long-established and newly founded) or individuals of great political, cultural and/or religious importance, and, on the other, their underexplored character. The geographical coverage of the materials extends from Southern Europe to Central and Northern Europe.
1) A library updated. Contemporary works in the papal library (thirteenth-fourteenth c.)
(J. Kujawinski)
While medieval libraries have been extensively searched for Classical and Patristic authors, the readiness of medieval repositories to acquire the most recent works has received less attention from the scholarship. This sub-project seeks to assess the presence of recent works in the papal library, from Boniface VIII (1294-1303) to Gregory XI (1370-1378). Recent works are defined, for the sake of this study, as works of the authors who were active within fifty years before the registration of their work in the library. A series of inventories, together with the records of book expenses, papal correspondence and the extant manuscripts provided grounds for an attempt at establishing the ratio of modern literature. The papal library was compared with selected other contemporary libraries of different kinds: court libraries, collections of university colleges, conventual and monastic libraries. A study of the receptivity towards modern works is also one of the means to assess the role that libraries played in the process of publishing new works in the culture of a manuscript book. The sub-project was conducted in collaboration with the ERC project Medieval Publishing from c. 1000 to 1500" (PI Samu Niskanen, University of Helsinki)
2) The library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494) (O. Merisalo, G. Murano, M. Pade)
The Italian humanist and philosopher G. Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494), now acknowledged as one of the most original thinkers of the 15th c., owned one of the largest private libraries of his time. Pico had assembled it at great expense for scholarly purposes (Greek, Hebrew and Arabic philosophy, theology and science; cf. his Oratio de hominis dignitate, Apologia and correspondence). Pico also employed scholars such as E. del Medigo (c. 1460-c. 1493) and Y. Alemanno (c. 1434-post 1504) for Latin translations of Hebrew works. From the successive owner of the library, Cardinal D. Grimani (1461–1523), most of the collection was passed on to the monastery of S. Antonio del Castello (Venice) in 1523 and by 1650 largely dispersed (to e.g. J.J. Fugger, J. Hurault de Boistaillé; 41 mss. left in 1650). The monastery having been sevely damaged in a 1687 fire, the library was long believed to have perished as well (P. Kibre, E. Garin); however, over 100 existing volumes have so far been identified. This subproject reconstructed Pico’s library holdings, also through a new, annotated edition of the inventories), traced a maximum of preserved volumes through a systematical examination of repositories, studied the physical witnesses (palaeography, codicology, annotations etc.) and metatexts to assess reader reactions.
3) The library of Doge Leonardo Donà (1536–1612) (M. Kuha)
Doge Leonardo Donà’s was one of the richest private libraries in Early Modern Venice with c. 750 printed and 80 handwritten books, functioning as a repository of information on governmental matters. The importance of this aspect is indicated e.g. by numerous historical works and maps also reflecting the patron’s general interests. Donà’s engagement is shown by an autograph library catalogue with bibliographical information and personal comments as well as numerous volumes with owner’s annotations. The mss. of the Donà Dalle Rose family library (c. 500 items) were donated to the Correr Museum Library in 1881.
4) The books of Catherine Jagiellon and King Sigismund Vasa of Sweden (S. Niiranen)
This study enhanced the understanding of the importance of book culture to how royal families and emerging nation-states (e.g. Sweden) would shape their identities, which were more transnational and transcultural than traditionally assumed. While the libraries of both the Jagiellonians and the Vasa dynasty had already received some scholarly attention, the private book collections of Catherine Jagiellon, Duchess of Finland and Queen of Sweden, and her son, King Sigismund Vasa, were underexplored. The study 1) identified more of the volumes of Jagiello-Vasa provenance (currently known: c. 50 ms. and printed books) preserved in mainly Swedish, Danish and Finnish repositories in order to determine the period of accession (during the lifetime of Catherine and Sigismund? As war booty in the 17th century, Sigismund having taken part of his library to Poland on losing the Swedish throne?); 2) explored the use made, either by Catherine and Sigismund or by later owners, of these volumes, of considerable cultural, scientific and religious interest, e.g. in shaping the identity of late 16th- 17th-century Sweden rising to the status of a Great Power. The study built on Niiranen’s work at the ERC project The Jagiellonians. Dynasty, memory and identity (PI N. Nowakowska, U. Oxford, 2015-2016).
5) The Library of Duke Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg at Helmstedt (Bibliotheca Julia) (B. Roling, B. Wallura).
The subproject reconstructed and examined the library established by Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528-1598) in Wolfenbüttel and Helmstedt, with special attention to its role in the development of Early Modern Medieval studies in the 17th century. Since the establishment of the Reformation in 1568, the Duke assembled a considerable library of manuscripts from Lower Saxon monasteries and c. 500 printed books for the Ducal university of Helmstedt (Bibliotheca Julia, 1576). Despite considerable progress in cataloguing the collections of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB), housing the ex-Helmstedt library, the early decades of the Bibliotheca Julia as well as its role in the formation of Early Modern medievistics are still unexplored. Its importance for the University of Helmstedt (1576-1810) has always been well known.
6) The library of Gian Battista Strozzi the Younger (L. Amato).
G.B.Strozzi the Younger (1551-1634), celebrated author and cultural manager (head of the Florentine Accademia degli alterati, 1571-1634), built up an important library of arts and sciences, financed a number of artists and scientists and was in contact with such important intellectuals as T. Tasso, V. and G. Galilei and Paracelsus. Due to direct use of his library by e.g. Galilei and Paracelsus, his collection influenced 16th-17th-c. arts (e.g. literature and music), and science (e.g. architecture, medicine). This subproject reconstructed, through Giovan Battista's letters and the inventories made by his heir, Carlo Strozzi (1587-1670) the library holdings and assess the impact of the library on contemporary and immediately successive readership.
