THE CITY AND
THE BOOK
30, 31 MAY/1
JUNE 2001, 4-6 SEPTEMBER
2002,
3-5 JUNE 2004, SEPTEMBER OR MAY, 2007 OR 2008
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESSES , FLORENCE
Hildegard of Bingen, Lucca
Manuscript
LA CITTÀ
E
IL LIBRO
30, 31
MAGGIO/1
GIUGNO 2001, SETTEMBRE 2002, 2003
CONVEGNI
INTERNAZIONALI
IN FIRENZE
Julian of Norwich spoke of God as sitting in the city of our soul, and constructed a book of contemplative theology of that vision. Florence, too, is a city of a vision, of whose Republic Christ became King. In the space of three years it is intended to present three International Congresses upon this theme of the City and the Book, tracing the meaning of the book and the people who read it through and in a city it shapes and reflects. In May of 2001, 2002, and 2003 we shall invite international scholars to present papers, and bookdealers, especially of facsimile editions of manuscripts, bookbinders, papermakers, calligraphers to come together to celebrate texts, books, libraries, skills, people, in the city of Florence. Guests to the city can stay in monasteries or in hotels or with friends.
30, 31
MAY,
I JUNE 2001,
EXILES AND PILGRIMS: TORAH, BIBLE,
GOSPEL, KORAN
Hebrew Scriptures, Greek Testament: Sacred Alphabets, Hebrew, Greek, Roman; (Helena ), Jerome, Paula and Eustochium , Egeria ; Codex Sinaiticus, British Library/St Catherine's Monastery; Cassiodorus, Pandect, Vivarium; Codex Argenteus, Carolina Library, Uppsala; Codex Aureus, King's Library, Stockholm; Codex Amiatinus , Laurentian Library, Florence; Lindisfarne Gospels , British Library, London; St Chad's Gospel, Lichfield Cathedral, England; Book of Kells, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Icelandic Bible, Arní Magnússon Institute, Reykjavik; Bede, History of the English Church and People ; Rules of St Benedict, St Colombanus; Vercelli Manuscript; St Donatus of Fiesole, Life of St Bridget, etc. Mission Pilgrimages from Ireland to Iceland and Italy (Fiesole). Beatus of Liebana, Apocalypse Commentary
Laurentian Library, Codex Amiatinus, where the Prophet Ezra mends and reads the refound texts of the Bible, in accord with the prophecy of the Prophetess Huldah: 2 Chronicles 34.14-33; recounted: Ezra 7.1-10; 10.6-15; Nehemiah 8.1-13-30. The portrait is doubly that of Ezra and of Cassiodorus who made the Codex Grandior, brought from Vivarium in Italy to Jarrow in England and there copied by Coelfrith to be brought back to Italy, who died on the journey, its exemplar in Northumberland destroyed by Vikings.
Immediately following this Congress, in the same place, the Certosa, Florence, SISMEL held another conference on the Thirteenth-Century Bible.
Book, Library, City, Web (history of book, libraries, on librarianship/electronic preservation/web publication)
Co-sponsors: S.I.S.M.E.L. (Societa` Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino), La Certosa, University of Florence; Laurentian Library, Florence; Riccardian Library, Florence; Societas internationalis pro Vivario, Italy; British Library, London; Oxford University, Computing Centre; Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland; Associazione Fioretta Mazzei; Associazione Culturale Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei.
Texts and Textiles Fair: publishers of facsimiles and editions, digital editions of manuscripts, bookbinders, paper makers, Alinari photographs , Becocci art postcards , Scala books, arts and crafts, hand-weaving, embroidery, etc. In Piazzale Donatello .
Visit to the Laurentian Library, Medici Palace, Benozzo Gozzoli frescoes, Mass in San Lorenzo, Fra Angelico frescoes, San Marco. Pilgrimage to the Santuario della Madonna delle Grazie al Sasso and Santa Brigida, San Martino a Mensola, for caves and tombs of Irish hermits Saints Andrew and Brigida. Locations for Congress: Palazzo Vecchio and Certosa, Galluzo.
Website
of Congress Proceedings: http://www.florin.ms/aleph.html
4-6
SETTEMBRE
2002, ACCADEMIA DELLE ARTI DEL DISEGNO, ORSANMICHELE, 4, THE
MANUSCRIPT,
THE ILLUMINATION
British Isles and Scandinavia:
Celtic Otherworlds
Spain: Beatus
of Liebana, Apocalypse, Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de
Santa
Maria (Concert in Orsanmichele)
Florence: Libro
de Montaperti, Archives, Brunetto Latino, Tesoro, Dante
Alighieri,
Commedia
Libro del Baidaiuolo
(Orsanmichele)
and Tuscan Misericordias
Dante Alighieri, exiled from
Florence, and excommunicated by the Church, preaching the Commedia,
to the City of Florence, 'NELMEZODE/
LCHAMINO/DINOSTRA/VITA
MIRI/ TROVAPE/ RVNASEL/VASCVRA/ CHELADIRI/ TTAVIAER/ASMARITA// AQUANTA/
DIRQUALE/ RECOSD/ VRA QUE/ STASILVA/SILVAGGIA/ ASPRAET/ FORTE
. . .' echoing the Bible's 'In Principio
erat
Verbum'. Michelini, Duomo, Florence.
Inscription
below: QVICOELVMCECINETMEDIVMQUEIMUMQVE
TRIBVNAL
~ LVSTRAVITQUE ANIMO CVNCTA POETA SVO ~ DOCTVS ADEST DANTES SVA QVEM
FLORENTIA
SAEPE ~ / SENSIT CONSILIS AC PIETATE PATREM ~ NIL POTVIT MORS
SAEVA
NOCERE POETA ~ QVEM VIVVM VIRTVS CARMEN IMAGO FACIT ~ Here
you see held in Dante's hand, as you hold in your hand, Dante's Commedia
, which he wrote while he sees God hold in His hand the entire Cosmos
of
the Creation, the Bible.
Women and the Book: Egeria , Itinerarium (Arezzo), Hildegard of Bingen , Liber Divinorum Operum Simplicis Hominis (Lucca), Marguerite Porete, Mirror of Simple Souls (Florence), St Umilta of Faenza , Lorenzetti and Orcagna, Friends of God (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, England), including Julian of Norwich , Showing of Love, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelationes (Siena, trans. by St Catherine of Siena's Cristofano di Gano), Letters between Francesco Datini, Merchant of Prato, and Lapo Mazzei, Notary for Santa Maria Nuova, on Birgitta of Sweden; Christine de Pizan, Chemin de Long Estudes (Paris).
Bishop Hemming of Turku, Finland, St Birgitta of Sweden, autograph Revelationes
Classics (Apuleius, Golden Ass; Terence, Comedies), Boccaccio, Decameron ; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Mass in Santa Maria Novella
Book, Library, City, Web
(history of libraries, librarianship/electronic preservation/web
publication)
Bodleian Library, showing chained books of circa 1598-1602, similar to Laurentian-Medicean Library, Florence
Co-sponsorship: S.I.S.M.E.L., University of Florence; Laurentian-Medicean Library, Riccardian Library, Florence; Societas internationalis pro Vivario, Italy; British Library, London; Oxford University, Computing Centre, England; Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland; Associazione Fioretta Mazzei; Biblioteca Fioretta Mazzei.
Exhibition: In the Riccardian Library, Florence, Manuscripts of Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoro, Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, Egeria, Itinerarium, Hildegard of Bingen, Opera Simplicius Hominum; Umiltà, Sermones, Marguerite Porete, Specchio delle anime semplici, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelationes in Italian translation by Catherine of Siena's disciple, Cristofero di Ganno, Catherine of Siena, Il Dialogo.
Trade Fair of Texts and Textiles , publishers of facsimiles and editions, bookbinders, paper makers, digital editions of manuscripts, bi-lingual website, Alinari photographs , Becocci art postcards , Scala books, arts and crafts, hand-weaving, embroidery. In Piazzale Donatello . Resulting Website will also be a clearing house for these bookdealers. Calligraphy Workshop, Augusto Fiorani will conduct a workshop on illuminating and gold-leafing the manuscript.
Suggested Events: Tour of Misericordia Confraternities, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Santa Maria Nuova, Concert of Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, Orsanmichele, Laurentian Library, Benozzo Gozzoli frescoes.
Website of Congress Proceedings: http://www.florin.ms/beth.html
MAY/JUNE 2004
The City and the Book III
was taken over by another
library
who chose to centre it only on the English Cemetery and other related
cemeteries
in Florence while using our Aureo Anello funding. We shall attempt to
return to our
programme with The City and the Book IV, in 2008.
See its
Proceedings/Atti at http://www.florin.ms/gimel.html
MAY/JUNE OR
SEPTEMBER, 2008
THE PRINTED BOOK, ENGRAVING, PHOTOGRAPH, FILM, WEB
Renaissance and Romance:
Cervantes' use of Alfonso,
Brunetto,
Dante; Ariosto, Tasso, Camoens, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, John
Milton, Paradise Lost ; William Blake on Dante and
Milton;
John Keats, Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron (Rome and Florence,
Protestant
Cemeteries)
Risorgimento, Pre-Raphaelites
and
Oxford Movement:
Madame de Stael, Corinne ou
Italie; Elizabeth
Barrett
Browning, Casa Guidi Windows, Aurora Leigh ; Robert
Browning, The Ring and the Book
The Brownings' Casa Guidi, Via Maggio, Florence, where Elizabeth wrote Aurora Leigh pushing the small sheets of paper into the cushion of the invalid chair when visitors called on her, and to which Robert brought The Old Yellow Book he had purchased in San Lorenzo Market. Robert had this painting done, because photographs were inadequate, when she died. The Princeton St Jerome can be seen to the middle right of the fireplace. Some of the black and white engravings had hung in her Wimpole Street room, taken from the Hengist 'Farthing' Horne, New Spirit of the Age.
George Eliot, Romola (Savonarola); Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun; Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi; Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux; Florence Nightingale, John Ruskin, Augustus Hare , Henry James; John Henry, Cardinal Newman, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Anna Jameson, Isa Blagden, Cristina Belgioioso, Margaret Fuller, Jessie White Mario, the Trollopes, William Wetmore Story, Hiram Powers, Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, Princess Casamassima; Augustus Hare, Florence; Dosteivsky, The Idiot, don Divo Barsotti, Dosteivsky; Fratelli Alinari , Julia Margaret Cameron, 1966 Flood
Ireland and Iceland
James Joyce, Samuel Beckett on
Italy and Dante; Haldorr Laxness, Independent People, etc.
Florence in Film
Castellani, Romeo and Juliet
; E.M. Forster, Room with a View; Prospero's Books; The
English Patient; Zeffirelli, Tea with Mussolini, etc.
Book, Library, City, Web (history of libraries, librarianship/electronic preservation/web publication)
Send Abstracts to holloway.julia@tiscali.it or to 'The City and the Book', Biblioteca Fioretta Mazzei, Piazzale Donatello 38, 50132 FIRENZE, ITALY.
Co-sponsors of The City and the Book: Florence; Laurentian Library, Florence; Riccardian Library, Florence; British Library, London; Oxford University, Computing Centre; Trinity College Library, Dublin; Associazione Internazionale Fioretta Mazzei; Gabinetto Vieusseux, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei.
Suggested Visits to Vallombrosa (organ concert, Mass), Fiesole, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Casa Guidi, Piazzale Donatello, etc. Banquet, Bellosguardo.
Texts and Textiles Fair: publishers of facsimiles and editions, bookbinders, paper makers, digital editions of manuscripts, bi-lingual website, Alinari photographs , Becocci art postcards , Scala books, arts and crafts, hand-weaving, embroidery. In Piazzale Donatello . Resulting Website to also be a clearing house for these bookdealers. Concurrent seminars: librarianship, paleography and codicology, textual editing, calligraphy, webweaving.
Website of Congress Proceedings: http://www.florin.ms
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Book Publishers
Facsimile Editions and Studies:
SISMEL
, Codex Amiatinus; British Library,
Lindisfarne Gospels;
Trinity College, Library, Book
of Kells; Edilan, Madrid (Florence, Alfonso el Sabio, Las
Cantigas
de Santa Maria); Moleiro, Barcelona (St Petersburg, Brunetto
Latino,
Tesoro);
LiCosa s.p.a. Dante, Commedia, Botticelli
Other: Early
English Text Society; Paulist Press/Paolini (Classics of Western
Spirituality);
Qiqajon, Bose; Penguin Classics ;
Olschki;
Alinari
, Giusti di Becocci , Scala, etc.
Encourage Facsimile and Digital
Editions: Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pizan, Orcherd of Syon
, Brunetto Latino, Tesoro, etc. Our intention: to give the past
to the future, the City of Florence and its treasures to the world wide
web, as the encyclopedia, the university of the globe.
Bibliography
Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard
of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon. Chicago:
University
of Chicago Press, 1993.
Stock, Brian. Implications of
Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh
and Twelfth Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline is March 15, 2007, for the Abstract of a Paper for The City and the Book IV.
Send Registration, Abstracts, to
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Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta
Mazzei
Piazzale Donatello 38
50132 FIRENZE
ITALY
During each of the three
Congresses
a Book and Handcraft Fair was held in Piazzale Donatello or elsewhere
in Florence.
Publishers
of Congress-related books are strongly urged to participate in the City
and Book IV International Congress.
