The Forty-Eighth Season of the TORONTO RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION COLLOQUIUM
Founded by Natalie Zemon Davis and James K. McConica in 1964
Neil Harris (University of Udine, Italy): “The Elephant in the Room, or the Survival of Renaissance Books.”
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 4.00 pm
Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, Room 206, St Michael’s College (121 St Joseph Street)
Please note our new location for this lecture.
Professor Harris’s lecture is presented in partnership with
The Graduate Students’ Association of Italian Studies
The Office of the Principal, St Michael’s College
The Program in Book History and Print Culture, University of Toronto
Professor Neil Harris teaches Bibliography and Library Studies at the University of Udine (Italy). The author of several important bibliographies, he has written on the history of the Anglo-American biblio-graphical tradition and its applications to the Italian book. Work in progress includes the collation of the text and images and a census of the copies of the 1499 Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; research on the history of paper-making in Italy; bibliographical research on the publishing of poetry in Renaissance editions; and ruminations on the factors governing the destruction and survival of books.
