2019

• Goran Proot, Why and How Studying Early Modern Book Prices, Halifax, 7 March 2019

• International conference Merchants, Artisans and Literati: The Book Market in Renaissance Europe, Los Angeles, 1–2 March 2019
  • Angela Nuovo, It’s madness to waste time in this book business!’: Mapping the Gabianos’ Network (1522)
  • Francesco Ammannati and Goran Proot, Book Prices from the Offi cina Plantiniana in a Comparative Perspective (1586–1631)
  • Flavia Bruni, An Early Modern Business Plan: Facing up the Challenge of Printing in the Sixteenth Century through Mobility, Ephemera and Official Mandates
  • Renaud Milazzo, In the Mind of a Publisher: Determining the Price of Emblem Books in Antwerp throughout the Sixteenth Century
  • Andrea Ottone, A Venetian Bookseller’s Craft : the Stockbook of Bernardino Giunti (First Half of the 17^th Century)

2018

• Goran Proot, Prijszetting van boeken in de tijd van Plantijn en Rubens, Antwerp, 18 November 2018

• International conference The Economic History of the Book in the Early Modern Period, Antwerp, 4–5 October 2018
  • Angela Nuovo, The know-how of a Renaissance publisher-bookseller
  • Francesco Ammannati and Goran Proot, Books from the Officina Plantiniana as luxury commodities (1580–1655)
  • Renaud Milazzo, The prices of emblem books in Europe in the 16^th century

• Andrea Ottone, Pricing Renaissance books: an overview of the EMoBookTrade project, Los Angeles, 30 August 2018

• Jasenka Gudelj, I libri d’architettura rinascimentale tra editori e privilegi, Udine, 10 April 2018

• International conference I privilegi librari in Italia e Francia nella prima età moderna, Udine, 7 February 2018
  • Francesco Ammannati, I privilegi come strumento di politica economica nell’Italia della prima età moderna
  • Andrea Ottone, Il privilegio del Messale riformato. Roma e Venezia fra censura espurgatoria e tensione commerciale
  • Erika Squassina, La pubblicazione online del database dei privilegi librari veneziani (1469–1545): primi risultati

2017

• Scuola di Dottorato in Istituzioni e Politiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC), Milan, 11 December 2017. Il mercato dei libri: dinamiche istituzionali e processi decisionali alle origini del successo del testo stampato/The Book Market: Institutional Dynamics and Decision-making Processes Behind the Success of Printed Books
  • Angela Nuovo, Laura Pani and Andrea Bocchi, Il fattore umano nel commercio librario: le lettere a Giovan Bartolomeo Gabiano (Venezia, 1522)
  • Francesco Ammannati, Studiare i prezzi dei libri: un dialogo tra discipline
  • Giliola Barbero, Gli editori in trappola: i libri di Giolito e i loro prezzi nel database EMoBookTrade
  • Andrea Ottone, Prezzi, valute e politica monetaria nella documentazione di una libreria Veneziana di inizio Seicento
  • Goran Proot, Antwerp book prices, 1580–1655: Factors influencing price levels
  • Erika Squassina, Privilegi librari e legislazione in materia di stampa a Venezia (1469–1603)

• International conference Selling & Collecting. Printed Book Sale Catalogues and Private Libraries in Early Modern Europe, Cagliari, 20–21 September 2017
  • Angela Nuovo, Introduction to the conference
  • Francesco Ammannati, Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europe
  • Giliola Barbero, Ordinary and extraordinary prices in Giolito’s catalogues
  • Flavia Bruni, Peace at the Lily. An evaluation of the De Franceschi press through the stockbook of Bernardo Giunti
  • Goran Proot, Parisian book prices in the 1540s published in bookseller’s catalogues

• VIII Conference, Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana La città, il viaggio, il turismo. Percezione, produzione e trasformazione, Naples, 7–9 September 2017
  • Francesco Ammannati, Mercanti spagnoli nella Firenze del ’500. La compagnia Astudillo e la «Natione Spagnuola» fiorentina

• International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds, 3–6 July 2017
  • Francesco Ammannati, Labour time and production cycles of wool manufacture in Renaissance Florence

• International Conference Crossing borders, crossing cultures. Popular print in Europe (1450–1900), Trent, 15–16 June 2017
  • Flavia Bruni, From popular to rare: cheap imprints beyond national collections
  • Goran Proot, How cheap were cheap books in sixteenth-century Antwerp? Questions, methodology and answers

• Course on digital publishing, Università degli Studi di Milano, 29 May – 1 June 2017
  • Giliola Barbero, Catalogues, standards and the digital library

• Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Documentarie, Linguistiche e Letterarie – Curriculum di Scienze del libro e del documento, Università La Sapienza, Rome, 11 May 2017
  • Angela Nuovo, Il progetto EMoBookTrade: linee di ricerca e organizzazione
  • Francesco Ammannati, Storia economica e storia del libro
  • Giliola Barbero, Costruire un database di prezzi di libri
  • Flavia Bruni, Prime indagini sull’assortimento dei libri nella bottega di Bernardino Giunti (Venezia, 1600–1620 circa)
  • Goran Proot, Plantin and Moretus book pricing policy

• Economic History Society Annual Conference, London, 31 March – 2 April 2017
  • Francesco Ammannati & Wouter Ryckbosch, The prevalence of the poor in early modern Europe: comparing Italy and the Low Countries

• Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, 30 March – 1 April 2017
  • Angela Nuovo, Book Prices and the Growth of Cultural Consumption in Early Modern Europe
  • Flavia Bruni, Marginal matters. Evidence of the uses of books in early modern Italian cloisters

• International Conference in Comparative History of Philology IMPAGINATION - Forms, Media and Circulation of Writing and Publication, Taipei, 20–22 March 2017
  • Goran Proot, Typographical evolution on the page: text and paratext, the case of handpress books published in the Southern Netherlands, 1473–1800

• ERC Day: Celebrating 10 Years of Excellence in Research, Trieste, 17 March 2017
  • Angela Nuovo, The EMoBookTrade project

2016

• EMoBookTrade Kick-off Conference, Udine, 30 November 2016
  • Angela Nuovo, “The early modern book trade: an evidence-based reconstruction of the economic and juridical framework of the European book market” ERC project. Sources, methodology and objectives
  • Francesco Ammannati, Book prices and consumption patterns in the Late Renaissance: problems and prospects
  • Giliola Barbero, The circulation of Bernardino Telesio’s works through personal, institutional and commercial networks
  • Flavia Bruni, Bound or loose. Making sense of price annotations on early printed books
  • Goran Proot, An analysis of prices established by Christopher Plantin and Jan Moretus I for their publications in the period 1580–1610
  • Erika Squassina, The privilege system in Venice (1469–1545)

• SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) Annual Meeting, Paris, 18–21 July 2016
  • Angela Nuovo, Transferring Humanism: The transformation of Italian books by the Gabiano publishers between Venice and Lyon

• International Conference The Price of Things in Pre Industrial Times. XLVIII Settimana di Studi, Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini, Prato, 8–11 May 2016
  • Angela Nuovo, The Price of Books in Italy (XV–XVI centuries)

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