Mois : juin 2019

Le sac de Lyon par les réformés calvinistes

Pamphleteering by Hand

By Panagiotis Georgakakis | The Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, one of our PWRB partners, is the home of a significant number of rare printed materials published during the sixteenth century. Yet, unexpectedly for this blog, today we will not be analysing a printed item in their collection. Rather, we will focus on a manuscript about … Lire plus

Jacopo de’ Barbari

The Lagoon City and the Book: Descriptions of Renaissance Venice

By Sandra Toffolo | The Fondazione Biblioteca San Bernardino in Trento, one of our Preserving the World’s Rarest Books library partners, is home to the books acquired over the centuries by the Franciscans in Trentino: around 25,000 books published prior to the nineteenth century, including over 300 incunabula and 3,600 books from the sixteenth century. Among … Lire plus