The afterlife of Aldus : posthumous fame, collectors and the book trade /

On 6 February 2015, the Warburg Institute marked the 500th anniversary of Aldus Manutius's death with a one-day colloquium on his extraordinary legacy. Rather than examining his own output, which has already received a vast amount of scholarly attention, the focus was on far less studied topics...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: British Library (sponsoring body.), Warburg Institute (sponsoring body,)
Other Authors: Kraye, Jill (Editor), Sachet, Paolo (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : The Warburg Institute, 2018.
Series:Warburg Institute colloquia ; 32.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. The Aldine Press after Aldus (1515-1598). From the printer's mind to the author's hand: Paolo Manuzio and his Tre libri di lettere volgari (1556-1560) / Lodovica Braida
  • Strategies and failures of a Renaissance publishing venture: the Accademia Veneziana and the myth of Aldus / Shanti Graheli
  • The end of the Manutius dynasty (1597) / Angela Nuovo
  • II. Private Aldine collections in Europe. Five centuries of Aldine collecting in Italy: known and lesser-known cases / Luca Rivali
  • Aldine editions in early modern France / Shanti Graheli
  • Aldine collecting and aristocratic values in French bibliophily before and after the French Revolution / François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles and Jean Viardot
  • III. The modern Aldine book trade. Selling Aldine in the UK (c. 1630-2015): towards a checklist of British sale catalogues of books published by the Manuzio family / Paolo Sachet
  • The Aldine in British book trade history: a look at three major collections / Nicholas Poole-Wilson
  • Aldine tributaries: collecting Aldus Manutius in the 21st century / G. Scott Clemons
  • Collecting the Renaissance: the Aldine Press (1494-1598) - catalogue of an exhibition / Jill Kraye, Stephen Parkin and Paolo Sachet.