Prof Brenda Hosington. The 'Renaissance Crossroads Catalogue'

This talk introduces the project and the segment 'The Crosscurrents Catalogue of Printed Translations in Stuart and Commonwealth Britain (1641-1660') and the ups and downs of producing it.

Dr Federica Coluzzi, "Dante…di giorno in giorno: Family History and Printed Ephemera in nineteenth-century Italy"

In the late nineteenth century, Italian women writers entered the overwhelmingly masculine and fiercely competitive field of Dante studies by authoring a vast and diverse body of works. Along with handbooks, translations, critical studies and creative adaptations, they contributed to the wider popularisation of Dante’s works through printed ephemera such as maps, diaries and calendars launched on the market by major publishes. Eugenia Levi’s Dante…di giorno in giorno presents Dante quotations, translated in French, German and English, for each day. First published in 1893, it went through three consecutive editions with Loescher & Seeber, before being re-issued in a new miniature format in 1903. In this seminar, I will invite participants to engage in a collaborative material study of personal copy of Levi’s book, paying particular attention to the marginalia inscribed in its pages to reflect on its intergenerational uses as a visitors’ book and sentiment album within a family from Trentino Alto Adige.