HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

The course is characterizing of several Master's Degrees in Humanities. The objective of the course is to provide advanced knowledge in bibliographic methodologies, history of the book and of information.

The course has three main objectives:
1. To approach the study of the function of writing and its relationship to orality in a historical perspective;
2. To approach the study of the history of the book, intended as a medium of communication, cultural object and repository of knowledge.
3. To illustrate in their historical evolution the bibliographical and catalographic tools that record the production of printed books: from Renaissance catalogues to the current on-line databases. The first part of the course will be devoted to training in the complex use of these research tools.

No specific prerequisites are required.

History of the printed book; Bibliography; bibliographical tools (printed catalogues and databases on-line). History of bibliographical tools as a means of ordering human knowledge.

On the oral-writing relationship:
WALTER J. ONG, Oralità e scrittura: le tecnologie della parola, Bologna, Il mulino, 2014.

For a general overview of the history of the book:
LUCIEN FEBVRE, HENRI-JEAN MARTIN, La nascita del libro, Roma-Bari Laterza 2011 [ed. or. 1958]
FRÉDÉRIC BARBIER, Storia del libro in Occidente, Bari, Dedalo, 2018.
LODOVICA BRAIDA, Stampa e cultura in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016

For the terminology of the book:
HANS TUZZI, Libro antico, libro moderno, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
EDOARDO BARBIERI, Guida al libro antico. Conoscere e descrivere il libro tipografico, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2006

On the characters of the historiography of the book:
ROBERT DARNTON, What Is the History of Books? “Daedalus”, Vol. 111/3 (Summer, 1982), pp. 65-83 (in PDF nel moodle)
Darnton, Robert. 2007. "What is the history of books?" revisited. “Modern Intellectual History” 4(2007), pp. 495-508 (in PDF nel moodle)

On Aldus Manutius:
Martin DAVIES, Neil HARRIS, Aldo Manuzio. L'uomo, l'editore, il mito, Roma, Carocci, 2019.
ERASMO DA ROTTERDAM, Opulentia sordida e altri scritti attorno ad Aldo Manuzio, a cura di L. Braida, Venezia, 2015.

On the bibliography:
LUIGI BALSAMO, La bibliografia: storia di una tradizione, Milano, Unicopli, 2017 [I ed. 1984]


On the analitical bibliography:
CONOR FAHY, Studi di bibliografia testuale, Padova, Antenore, 1988.
NEIL HARRIS, Filologia dei testi a stampa, in Fondamenti di critica testuale, a cura di Alfredo Stussi, Bologna, il Mulino, 1998, pp. 301-326.
NEIL HARRIS (a cura di), Bibliografia testuale o filologia dei testi a stampa? a cura di, Udine, Forum, 1999.
DONALD MCKENZIE, Bibliografia e sociologia dei testi, Milano, edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, 1999.

On the censorship:
MARIO INFELISE, I libri proibiti: da Gutenberg all'Encyclopédie, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013.
GIGLIOLA FRAGNITO, Rinascimento perduto. La letteratura italiana sotto gli occhi dei censori (secoli XV-XVII), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019.
ROBERT DARNTON, I censori all’opera, Milano, Adelphi, 2017.
GIORGIO CARAVALE, Libri pericolosi : censura e cultura italiana in età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022.
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On the reading:
GUGLIELMO CAVALLO, ROGER CHARTIER (a cura di), Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale / Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2017.


Further readings will be given during the lectures.

The written exam is a short essay (3000/3500 words) on a topic among those treated in class and in its discussion.

The course is seminar-based and requires the active participation of students.
Part of the materials used in the lessons will be provided through the moodle platform

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development