History of the library in western civilization:  the renaissance, from Petrarch to Michelangelo
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV
Published: Apr 11, 2012
Place of publication: New Castle, DE:  Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Table of contents: title: Chapter I. From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  (Pioneers of the humanist idea, humanistic libraries, the teaching of Greek gains ground); title: Introduction; title: The teaching of Greek gains ground; title: The character of the humanistic library; title: The humanistic philosophy; title: A complete humanistic library; title: Revision of the university curriculum The Church’s attitude to the classics Academies and scholarly coteries Typography at the service of humanism Public libraries; title: Private libraries owned by scholars:  France, Germany, Geneva, Spain, England, The Netherlands; title: ￼Libraries of contemporary literature; title: The history of geography; title: The library as the basis for Petrarch’s literary studies; title: Greek teachers and owners of humanistic libraries in Petrarch’s circle; title: Boccaccio and his library; title: Leonzio Pilato; title: The teaching of Greek language and literature is introduced into the West: Manuel Chrysoloras; title: The first bilingual (Greek and Latin) library of the Renaissance: Palla Strozzi; title: Chapter II. From the east to the west. (Libraries of Byzantine scholars in the West and of Italian humanists. Academies and the first great libraries of the Renaissance); title: Libraries of Byzantine scholars in the West: From Manuel Chrysoloras to Ianos Laskaris: Manuel Chrysoloras, Cardinal Bessarion, Theodoros Gazis, ￼Ioannes Argyropoulos, Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Andronikos Kallistos, Konstantinos Laskaris, Ianos Laskaris, Markos Mousouros; title: Itinerant suppliers of manuscripts to libraries: Poggio; title: Academies in Italy and their role in the diffusion of ancient literature The Platonic Academy of Florence; title: Pico della Mirandola and his library; title: Novello Malatesta’s library at Cesena; title: Cardinal Bessarion’s library; Bessarion’s Academy; title: The Vatican Library; title: A literary scholar on a par with Petrarch: Politian and his library; title: Chapter III. The invention of printing. (The role of printing in the dissemination of knowledge and the contribution of Aldus Manutius to the advancement of Greek and Roman literature. Libraries of the literati and monumental libraries); title: Τhe role of typography in the dissemination of knowledge; title: Matthias Corvinus’s library; title: The library of a humanist beyond the Alps: Janus Pannonius; title: The Medici library: Niccoli and his library; Cosimo’s heirs; The library under Lorenzo the Magnificent; title: Aldus and his contribution to the promotion of Greek and Latin literature; title: Chapter IV. The great centre of humanism in the north. (The pioneers of French humanism, the role of the Parisian printing houses, and the French royal libraries); title: Τhe character of French humanism and its pioneers; title: The French Church and classical literature; title: ￼The classics seen as ‘French literature’; title: The great story of Greek printing in France; title: Greek books printed by Estienne (1545-1551); title: The formation of the French Royal Library; title: The library of Louis de Bruges; title: Manuscripts commissioned by Louis XII; title: The library is transferred to the Château of Blois: The catalogues; The contents of the library; title: The library of François I; title: Works by Aristotle and his commentators in French libraries and the character of French libraries in the first hundred years of typography; title: Other Aristotelian publishing centres; title: Chapter V. An apostle of humanistic ideas from the north: Erasmus. (Retracing the map of printing and books in the context of the Reformation); title: Erasmus; title: From Paris to Geneva; A book centre that was a bastion of the Reformation and heir to the classical tradition; title: ￼Libraries at the service of printing houses; title: The great printing houses of Geneva: Crespin and Estienne; title: The Catholic Church’s polemic against book production; title: Book fairs as a means for the enrichment of libraries; title: Censorship: the bane of books; title: The character of Renaissance libraries: from manuscripts to printed books; title: The ‘Reformation Library’; title: Chapter VI. Libraries for a new Christian literature. (Translations of the Bible, the Dissolution of Monastic Libraries in England, and Libraries belonging to Men of Letters); title: Towards a new Christian literature: humanist involvement in the emendation and translation of the Old and New Testaments. The Hebrew Bible; The Vulgate: St. Jerome’s Latin translation; The Gutenberg Bible; Erasmus’s New Testament; Ximenes’s Complutensian Polyglot Bible; Luther’s German Bible; The Bible in English; Coverdale’s Bible; Matthew’s Bible; The English Bible of Geneva; The chronicle of the publication of the Paris Bible; title: ￼The dissolution of England’s historic monastic libraries: John Leland’s list; Leland’s role as a protector of manuscripts; Leland’s library and its fate; Other losses of library books; title: Libraries of scholars and men of letters from Italy to Northern Europe; title: Italy: A Poet’s Library: Gioviano Pontano; The library of a future Pope. Paul III’s collection; Library catalogues and publisher/printers’ lists; The international library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli; Libraries belonging to intellectuals; Book collections assembled on scientific criteria; title: Germany: Reuchlin’s interests as a student and teacher; The ‘Battle of Books’; Reuchlin’s Library; title: France: Michel de Chamelet’s Library; title: Spain: Ponce’s Library; title: England: Public Libraries; Private Libraries; England and the international book market; English libraries organized around Italian models; title: ￼Towards the compilation of national and international bibliographies; title: The library of a book-aesthete: Willibald Pirckheimer; title: Beatus Rhenanus’s library at Sélestat; Basel: the most important humanist printing centre in Northern Europe; title: The main body of his library Beatus Rhenanus’s library at Sélestat; title: Chapter VII. The new literature fills library shelves; and a historic library. (New forms of literature in the aftermath of the Italian Renaissance, the influence of the classics and of Petrarch and the Pléiade, and an exemplary university library: the Bodleian); title: The new literature fills library shelves; title: Italian literature under constraint; title: The intellectual atmosphere in Catholic France; title: German, Danish and Dutch literature find their identity The birth of Renaissance poetry in England; title: European literary masterpieces of the late sixteenth century: Luís Vaz de Camões; Montaigne; Cervantes; Shakespeare; title: The Bodleian Library; The Bodleian Library’s first printed catalogue; title: Chapter VIII. Architecture. (The evolution of library architecture from the Middle Ages to the Late Renaissance); title: Architecture; title: The iconography of library decoration; title: Furnishings; title: Libraries on the Italian model: The library of Santa Annunziata in Florence; The library of San Marco in Florence; title: The Biblioteca Malatestiana at Cesena; title: Libraries in Italy following the lines of Michelozzo’s design. Florence: The library of Badia; The library of Santa Croce.  Bologna: The library of San Domenico; The library of San Francesco. Padua: The library of San Giovanni di Verdara. Parma: The library of San Giovanni Evangelista. Piacenza: The library of San Sepolcro. Perugia: The library of San Domenico. Milan: The library of Sant’Eustorgio; ￼The library of Santa Maria delle Grazie; The library of San Vittore al Corpo.  Monte Oliveto: The library of the Abbey. Mantua: The library of San Agnese; The library of San Domenico; The library of Santa Maria degli Angeli. Brescia: The library of San Barnaba. Venice: The library of San Giorgio Maggiore. Vicenza: The library of Santa Corona.; title: The library of the Holy See; title: The library of Duke Federico da Montefeltro; title: The Medici Library in Florence; title: The library of St. Mark’s in Venice; title: The Escorial library; title: The Bodleian Library in Oxford.