Girolamo Savonarola Religious and Political Reformer: The Incunable Collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart
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Thomas M. Izbicki
The works on the Dominican religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola did not vanish from sight with his execution in 1498. The preacher's works began appearing in print during the last decade of his life, and they continued appearing after his death. Most were published in Florence, but some appeared in other cities. A few even were printed in Germany. The printers most associated with dissemination of the friar's works are Bartolomeo de' Libri and Lorenzo Morgiani. This selection of early editions of Savonarola's works illustrates the rapid passage or his words into print and the long afterlife of the friar as a religious figure. The collection also contains writings of both supporters and opponents of Savonarola, most of them published in his lifetime. Thus the microfiche collection (212 titles on 263 microfiche) illustrate every aspect of the friar's impact on both the book trade and the reading public of his day. (MARC21 Bibliographic Records are also available but were not reviewed.)
© 2005 by K. G. Saur
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- Impressum
- Comment and News
- A Film is a Film is a Film – or is It? … Microfilms – How to Evaluate for Use and Purchase
- Papers Past: Browse Access for Online New Zealand Newspapers
- Kodak's “Reliable Image” Seminar
- Primary Source Publishers in a Googling World
- vascoda – Aims and Ambitions in Building the German Digital Library
- Automatic Exposure: Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817–1980) with American State Papers (1789–1838) – Readex Digital Edition
- Girolamo Savonarola Religious and Political Reformer: The Incunable Collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart
- Index to Reviews
