Paper Heritage in Italy, France, Spain and Beyond (16th to 19th Centuries) (eBook, ePUB)

Collector Aspirations & Collection Destinies
Redaktion: Borello, Benedetta; Casella, Laura

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a long-term approach, spanning from the end of the 16th to the 19th century, to explore how men and women in Italy, France, and Spain collected, displayed, and passed down various types of papers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000992021
• Artikelnr.: 69129097

Autorenporträt

Benedetta Borello is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cassino. She has been a fellow at the EUI (Florence), the Italian Academy (Columbia University NY) and MIAS (Madrid). Her research activity is focused on the history of the élites, family history and gender history, network analysis, and the public sphere. She is the author of Trame sovrapposte. La socialità aristocratica e le reti di relazioni femminili a Roma (XVII-XVIII secolo) (2003), Il posto di ciascuno. Fratelli, sorelle e fratellanze (XVI-XIX secolo) (2016), and L'apprentissage de Rome à la Renaissance. Officiers à l'ombre de la Curie (xve - xviie siècle) (2021). Laura Casella is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Udine. She has been visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in Marseille. Her main research interests concern the political and cultural role of élites, the history of border areas, family history and gender history. She is the author of I Savorgnan: la famiglia e le opportunità del potere, secc. XV-XVIII (2003), 'Per parlare da fratello a fratello'. Famiglia e carriere nelle lettere di Pompeo ed Eusebio Caimo, 1588-1640 (2022) and co-editor of Construire les liens de famille dans l'Europe moderne (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Borello and Casella, Introduction / Part I Linking networks through pages:
men of letters and their friends / Volpini, From Florence to Salamanca and
back: the collection of books and manuscripts of Girolamo da Sommaia (early
16th century) / Valeri, 'Un ricchissimo gioiello di Roma'. Creation,
visibility and dispersion of the Cassiano dal Pozzo library between Rome
and Europe / Montcher, The Library of the Baroque Republic of Letters /
Part II Collecting papers to leave a mark: physicians, scholars and clerics
/ Brevaglieri, Japanese papers for Baroque Rome: Angelo Rocca's library:
missionary networks and urban perennialisation / Borello, Coffers and
shelves for the next generations. The destiny of Paolo Beni's papers /
Casella, Who was Pompeo Caimo's library intended for? Family use and public
endowment of a 17th century physician's and polygraph's book collection /
Chapron, Dead men's papers. The patrimony of scholarly papers in 18th
century France / Part III Collecting papers to leave a mark: technicians
and jurists / Favino, The books of the 'invisible technician' Gaspare Berti
(1601-1643): a wealth of knowledge in Baroque Rome / Feci, Jurists'
Libraries in 17th Century Rome / Part IV Papers to create a museum: wishes
and aspirations of noble patrons and other donors / Mazzetti di Pietralata,
The agent and the connoisseur: self-attribution of roles in and around the
Savelli painting collection through their letters / Moralejo, The legacy of
Catalina de Mendoza to the Colegio Máximo / Borean, Art libraries and art
collecting in Venice in the 18th century. The Manfrin library /
Fiorelli, From private collection to shared heritage. An aristocratic
donation in 19th century Naples / Jornet Benito, Two women writers within
the walls of a library-museum. A documentary legacy in 19th century Spain.