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Becoming collectable: collecting and selling Aldines in early-modern Venice
No full textOne of the book collector’s major rules is the purchase of unique copies, be it by the exemplar’s rareness, typographical perfection or rare error occurring during the type-setting process, the binding or illustrious previous owners. Like the incunabula, an autonomous collection sector begun in 1639 with Bernard von Mallinckrodt’s publication: De ortu et progressu artis typographicae, Aldine books have become with time a category by itself due to the edition-specific features of the books.
While we can trace some interest for Aldine copies already as early as the first half of the 16th century, it is usually inventories as well as the sale catalogues’ registration of the books and the fixed starting prices which tell us when editions become collectibles and why. The paper proposes to trace, with the help of inventories and sale catalogues from Venice but also others from Italy, France and England, the birth of a collectible - the Aldine editions - and enquire about the nature of their classification in different contexts. It will set to describe the shift from a 16th-17th centuries interest in contents and typographical craftsmanship of the edition to an appreciation of the rareness and uniqueness of the copy, occurring in the 18th century. It will moreover address the 19th century rise of an extensive Aldine market due to the secularization of monastic libraries and the accumulation of duplicates in deposits and hosting libraries
Tra narrazione storica e banca dati. Riflessioni sull’edizione della cronaca quattrocentesca di Antonio Morosini
Full text linkPower or exclusive noble rights. The Venetian patriciate and the aggregation of new families in the XVIIth century
No full textPower in Venice was synonymous with noble status. The Venetian patriciate, the long-time ruling elite, conceived this linkage as an effective barrier against claims of other social groups. At the second half of the 17th century, the patriciate, decimated in number and unable to fund the war of Crete, contemplates the aggregation of newcomers in return for money. After a long debate the idea of an official aggregation is rejected. The proposal demands in fact a difficult choice: sharing power with others means also ceding the patrician exclusive noble status. The debates preceding the vote reveal the patrician belief in the congenital nature of nobility and thus in its incommunicability. Consequently, the unwillingness to give up its qualitative distinction and lose its noble reputation produces an ambiguous solution: the patriciate incorporates 125 families by exercising the sovereign's right to reward the subject for his services, avoiding thus an official ennoblement. -English summar
Diversità e originalità regionale degli archivi in Italia (イタリア地方文書館の多様性と独自性 / ドリット・ライネス、湯上 良 訳)
No full textOffice Seeking, Broglio, and the Pocket Political Guidebooks in Cinquecento and Seicento Venice
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Recensiona a "Jacopo Morelli e la repubblica delle lettere attraverso la sua corrispondenza (1768-1819), a cura di Alessia Giachery, Venezia, Marcianum press, 2012"
No full textCooptazione, aggregazione e presenza al Maggior Consiglio: le casate del patriziato veneziano, 1297-1797
No full textThe Venetian Patriciate : Reality versus Myth, di Donald E. Queller (Urbana e Chicago, 1986)
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