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New Library acquisition: Il primo libro dell'opere toscane di M. Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati

Published: November 03, 2022

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Il primo libro dell'opere toscane di M. Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati. Florence: Appresso i Giunti, MDLX.

Bound up with Love digital exhibit launch

Published: January 30, 2022

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

A digital companion to the exhibit, "'Bound up with love...': The extraordinary legacy of Father John Zahm's Dante Collection," is now available online.

New Library acquisition: two significant volumes pertaining to Guido Cavalcanti

Published: November 17, 2020

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books & Special Collections has recently acquired the following items: Guido Cavalcanti. L'espositione del M.ro Egidio Colonna Romano degli eremitani, sopra la canzone d'amore di Guido Caualcanti Fiorentino… Siena: Appresso Saluestro Marchetti, 1602. Guido Cavalcanti, with notes and translations by Ezra Pound. Rime…

New Library acquisition: Satire fate in occasione de sede vacante...

Published: December 19, 2019

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: [Satire fate in occasione de sede vacante per la morte di Papa Clemente XIII Carlo Rezzonico l’anno 1769.] Bound manuscript preserving 61 poems. A sede vacante– the period between a pope’s death and the election of his successor– was historically a period of disorder and transgression within the city of Rome, during which the deceased pope and other figures of authority were lampooned in songs and poetry. Chief amongst these compositions were pasquinades, or satirical poems that were pasted onto the fragmentary statue of Pasquino near the Piazza Navona. Once posted on Pasquino or one of the city’s other statue parlanti…

New Library acquisition: Epistole et euangeli et letioni volgari in lingua toscana

Published: June 20, 2019

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired Epistole et euangeli et letioni volgari in lingua toscana, Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546, a vernacular edition of liturgical readings from the epistles and the gospels embellished with 151 woodcuts. With the acquisition of this copy, Rare Books and Special Collections is the only holder in the United States of a copy from the seminal 1546 edition. Only two other copies from this edition are known, now found at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome.

New Library acquisition: Stanze di Messer Angelo Politiano...

Published: May 13, 2018

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Angelo Poliziano. Stanze di Messer Angelo Politiano comintiate per la giostra del Magnifico Giuliano di Piero de Medici. Venice: per Nicolò Zopino e Vincentio compagno,1524....

New Library acquisition: Manuscript fragment of Jacopo della Lana commentary

Published: March 07, 2017

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Manuscript fragment on vellum of Jacopo della Lana’s commentary to Dante’s Commedia. Four folia, dating to the mid-14th century, of Northern Italian origin. This vellum fragment comes from a dismembered manuscript of the Commento…

New Library acquisition: Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarca

Published: January 16, 2017

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarca. Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1501. In 1501, the printer Aldus Manutius embarked upon a new publishing venture to produce libelli portatiles, or portable copies of classical and contemporary texts...

New Library acquisition: Historia antica di Ricordano Malespini...

Published: March 19, 2015

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Historia antica di Ricordano Malespini gentil'huomo Fiorentino dall'edificazione de Fiorenza per insino all'anno M. CCLXXXI. Con l'aggiunta di Giachetto svo nipote dal detto anno per insino al 1286. Florence: Nella stamperia de i Giunti, 1568.…

New Library acquisition: Fragmenta vestigii veteris Romae ex lapidibus Farnesianis...

Published: November 19, 2014

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro. Fragmenta vestigii veteris Romae ex lapidibus Farnesianis nunc primum in lucem edita, cum notis Io. Petri Bellorii, ad Eminentiss. ac Reverendiss. Camillum Maximum S.R.E. Cardinalem.…

New Library acquisition: Considerazioni sopra le rime del Petrarca

Published: October 06, 2014

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Alessandro Tassoni. Considerazioni sopra le rime del Petrarca. Col confronto de’luoghi de’poeti antichi di varie lingue. Aggiuntavi nel fine una scelta dell’annotazioni del Muzio ristrette, e parte esaminate.…

New Library acquisition: Ameto di Messere Giovanni Boccaccio, 1520

Published: January 13, 2014

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Ameto di Messere Giovanni Boccaccio: Con le osservationi in uolgare gra[m]matica sopra esso di Hieronimo Claricio. Milan: nella officina Minutiana a ispesa di Andrea Caluo, A di .X. de Giugnio. 1520. …

New Library acquisition: Miscellanea, o Raccolta di pezzi scelti da' più celebri autori classici Italiani

Published: November 09, 2012

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Antonio Piller, ed. Miscellanea, o Raccolta di pezzi scelti da' più celebri autori classici Italiani. Moscow: dalla stamperia N. S. Vsevolojsky, 1817. First and only edition

New Library acquisition: Historia vniversale

Published: May 31, 2012

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Gasparo Bugati. Historia vniversale. Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1570. First edition.

New Library acquisition: Poesie a Casarsa

Published: April 20, 2012

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Poesie a Casarsa. Bologna: Libreria Antiquaria, 1942. First edition.

New Library acquisition: La difesa della razza

Published: March 08, 2012

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: La difesa della razza. Rome, Società anonima istituto romano di arti grafiche di Tumminelli. 117 issues, dating from August 1938- June 1943. Published biweekly from August 5, 1938, to June 20, 1943, La difesa della razza (The Defense of the race) ...

New Library acquisition: Tredici canti del Floridoro

Published: December 02, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Modesta Pozzo de' Giorgi [Moderata Fonte, pseud.] Tredici canti del Floridoro. Venice: nella stamparia de'Rampazetti, 1581. First edition, with 13 full-page woodcuts in text. This is the first and only edition of Tredici canti del Floridoro…

New Library acquisition: The Quintesence of wit

Published: October 18, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Francesco Sansovino. The Quintesence of wit,: being a corrant comfort of conceites, maximies, and poleticke deuises, selected and gathered together by Francisco Sansouino...

New Library acquisition: Genealogiae Ioannis Boccatii

Published: June 29, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Genealogiae Ioannis Boccatii: cum demonstrationibus in formis arborum designatis. Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494. First illustrated edition with 13 woodcuts of genealogical trees.

New Library acquisition: Journal of a tour to Italy

Published: June 17, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Charles-Marie de la Condamine. Journal of a tour to Italy. London, T. Lewis & G. Kearsly, 1763. First edition.

New Library acquisition: Indicazione antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano

Published: May 06, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pasquale Massi. Indicazione antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano - Catalogue indicatif des antiquitès composant le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican. Rome: Presso i Lazzarini, 1792. First edition; parallel texts in Italian and French. …

New Library acquisition: Distinta relatione delle cerimonie fatte in Roma...

Published: March 08, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pietro Leone. Distinta relatione delle cerimonie fatte in Roma nell'aprire le Porte Sante delle quattro principali Basiliche per l'anno corrente del giubileo, e particolarmente di quella di S. Pietro in Vaticano…

New Library acquisition: Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepullcri Nasonum…

Published: February 11, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro. Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepullcri Nasonum… Rome: S. Michaelis for Hieronymous Mainardus, 1738. Illustrated with 75 engravings, 34 of which are full-page prints. …

New Library acquisition: Rime, Le Stanze, De gli Asolani

Published: January 25, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pietro Bembo. Rime, Le Stanze, De gli Asolani. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio, 1530. By the year 1530, Pietro Bembo was well known for his editions of Petrarch and Dante, published respectively in 1501 and 1502, and his Prose della volgar lingua…

New Library acquisition: Les Eglises des Stations de Rome

Published: January 12, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Israel Silvestre. Les Eglises des Stations de Rome. Paris, Chez Israel, ca. 1640. Etched and engraved title page with ten consecutively numbered etchings.

New Library acquisition: Roma antica di Famiano Nardini

Published: December 17, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Famiano Nardini. Roma antica di Famiano Nardini. Rome, Gaetano Zenobi, 1704. Includes 16 engraved illustrations, some of which fold out, and 36 woodcuts. Second edition.

New Library acquisition: Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae supersunt reliquiae

Published: November 30, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Giovanni Battista Cavalieri. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae. Rome, 1569. Bound with: Giovanni Antonio Dosio. Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae supersunt reliquiae. Florence, 1569.

New Library acquisition: Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae

Published: November 19, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Francesco Albertini. Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae. Rome, Jacobus Mazochius, 1510.

New Library acquisition: Roma ampliata, e rinovata

Published: November 03, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Attributed to Gregorio Roisecco. Roma ampliata, e rinovata, o sia nuova descrizione della moderna città di Roma…. Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli for the bookshop of Gregorio Roisecco, 1750. Contains 39 woodcut illustrations.

New Library acquisition: Urbis Romae topographia….

Published: October 27, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Bartolomeo Marliani. Urbis Romae topographia…. Rome, Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. Includes 23 woodcut illustrations. First illustrated folio edition.