Sessions I

26 September 2018

9.30-10.30 Plenary 1 (Roling) room 104

11.00-12.30

Section 1 room 309

Organising libraries I

Chair: Raija Sarasti-Wilenius (University of Helsinki)

Johann Ramminger, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vienna/Munich, In Praise of Libraries. The semantics of book-collections

Annet den Haan, University of Aarhus, The Vatican as the new Alexandria. Ancient models for Renaissance libraries in fifteenth-century Italy

Peter Gillgren, University of Stockholm, The original design of the Skokloster library (c. 1665)

Section 2 room 312

Reconstructing libraries I

Chair: Jakub Kujawinski (University of Helsinki/MedPub/University of Jyväskylä/Lamemoli/University of Poznan)

Maddalena Signorini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, An unconventional Humanism. Giovanni Boccaccio’s library

Simone Allegria, University of Siena, La biblioteca francescana del convento di Santa Croce a Firenze

Section 3 room 313

Organising books I

Chair: Miika Kuha (University of Jyväskylä/Lamemoli)

Aino Liira, University of Turku, Features of organisation and layout in the indices to the Middle English Polychronicon

Adrián Ares Legaspi, University of Seville, Organising the information in Renaissance manuscripts in the Castilian Kingdom. Material strategies in Santiago de Compostela’s books and libraries

Antonia Cerullo, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Liturgical music manuscripts in Montecassino during the Renaissance period. Abbot Squarcialupi’s commission

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14.00-15.30

Section 1 room 309

Organising libraries II

Chair: Samu Niskanen (University of Helsinki/MedPub/Jesus College, Oxford)

Marianne Pade, Danish Academy in Rome/University of Aarhus, Storage of books - storage of knowledge

Astrid M. H. Nilsson, Lund University, Royal Marginalia. King Eric XIV of Sweden as organiser of knowledge

Patrizia Carmassi, Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel/DFG, “On the shoulders of the Humanists”. Accumulation of libraries: accumulation of knowledge?

Section 2 room 312

Reconstructing libraries II

Chair: Birgit Ebersperger (Bavarian Academy of Sciences)

Grigory Vorobyev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, The Greek Manuscripts of Demetrius Chalcondyles. Towards a Reconstruction of a Private Library

Giovanna Murano, Lamemoli, Nuove acquisizioni di libri appartenuti a Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Nadia Cannata, University of Rome La Sapienza, Linguistic Culture in Renaissance Rome. The Vatican Collections, Bembo and Colocci’s Libraries (1500-1545)