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This article analyses the contents of the manuscripts in Latin script found at the Villa Farnese of Caprarola and the Palazzo della Cancelleria of Rome at the death of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589). They were inventoried by Claudio Tobalducci, librarian to the Cardinal; the inventories were edited by Francois Fossier. Although the manuscript collections seem neither organic nor systematically constituted by the Cardinal (the volumes were mainly borrowed from the great Farnese library in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome), the manuscripts were used by the Cardinal in the last years of his life. They shed light on at least some of the personal interests of this important ecclesiastical, political and cultural figure at the end of his long career. ; Questo articolo esaminerà il contenuto dei codici in scrittura latina presenti alla Villa Farnese di Caprarola e al Palazzo della Cancelleria nel 1589, registrati nell'inventario steso alla morte di Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589) dal bibliotecario Claudio Tobalducci ed edito da François Fossier. Anche se le raccolte qui studiate non sembrano organiche né proprie al Cardinale (si tratta in linea di massima di volumi tolti alla grande biblioteca farnesiana conservata al Palazzo Farnese), consistono di codici che, per ragioni diverse, furono utilizzati dal Cardinale a un momento determinato poco prima della morte. Contribuiscono dunque a una ricostruzione almeno parziale degli interessi personali di questa importantissima figura ecclesiastica, politica e culturale negli ultimi anni di vita. ; peerReviewed

The Padua-trained medical doctor Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) of Nuremberg is today perhaps best known for his Liber Chronicarum, printed in Latin and German (Weltchronik) in 1493 with an ambitious programme of xylographies. Thanks to his well-spent study years in Padua (1463–1466), he also played an important role in the dissemination of Italian humanism north of the Alps, as witnessed, for example, by his important collection of inscriptions and Humanist texts. His rich library, consisting of manuscripts, both autographs and written by others, and printed books, was bought from his family by H. J. Fugger of Augsburg (1531–1598) in 1552. Fugger's library was passed to the Bavarian Court Library in 1571 and is now housed at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. This article details one of the autograph manuscripts, the clm 490, containing medical texts. It gives direct access to Hartmann at work on his library, carefully writing out the contents in his all'antica hand, numbering the folios, providing a list of contents, presenting authors in short biographies and, last but not least, scrupulously dating and often localizing the sections copied.

This article will examine book contacts between the '(Magnus) Ducatus' of Finland, then part of the Kingdom of Sweden, and Continental Europe, mainly the HRE, between the middle of the fifteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth century. In this period, Sweden went from being a member of a Scandinavian union dominated by Denmark to becoming a major political player in Europe ; Sono qui prese in esame le relazioni attivate dal libro a stampa tra il '(Magnus) Ducatus' di Finlandia, all'epoca parte del Regno di Svezia, e l'Europa continentale, in particolar modo il Sacro Romano Impero, tra la metà del XV e la metà del XVII secolo. In quel lasso di tempo, infatti, la Svezia entrò a far parte della Lega anseatica, dominata dalla Danimarca, ponendosi così in una posizione privilegiata che le consentì di acquisire un ruolo politico sempre più rilevante, anche dal punto di vista della produzione e della circolazione del libro tipografico.

Poggio Bracciolini's last work, the Historiae Florentini populi, was edited and dedicated to Federico di Montefeltro by Jacopo di Poggio in 1472. Jacopo also translated the work into the volgare and had it printed in Venice in 1476. In the light of the manuscript tradition, Jacopo's editorial changes were more considerable than has hitherto been thought. The propagation of his edition and translation would seem to be intimately connected with his political aspirations ending in his unfortunate participation in the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478. ; peerReviewed