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López-Ríos, Santiago, "A New Inventory of the Royal Aragonese Library of Naples", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 65 (2002), 201-243.
- Resum
- In Ferrara on 4 July 1523, Isabella del Balzo, Queen of Naples, sold a sizable portion of what remained of the royal Aragonese library to the humanist and book collector, Celio Calcagnini. A record of this transaction has survived in a manuscript, now in Madrid, listing many of her possessions (Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Sección de Códices, MS 562B, fols. 17r-29r). This newly found inventory of 132 books (M1) sheds light on the dispersal of one of the most important libraries of the Italian Renaissance. In this article I shall, firstly, analyse the inventory both as an historical document of intrinsic importance and in relation to other extant inventories of the Aragonese library. Secondly, I shall attempt to determine Isabella's attitude towards the library and also explore the use which contemporary men of letters made of the books in her collection. Thirdly, I shall place Celio Calcagnini's purchase of over 100 volumes from Isabella within the context of his literary interests and his passion for book collecting. Finally, in the Appendix, I shall provide an annotated edition of M1, together with an inventory of ten books which Isabella gave away in the same year, 1523.
- Matèries
- Catàlegs i inventaris
Biblioteques
Història del llibre
Documentació
Nàpols
- Notes
- Accessible a: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4135108
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