Papers at conferences and seminars

2023

A Year in the Life of a Venetian Bookseller: The Commercial Correspondence of G. B. Gabiano (1522-1523), RSA Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-11 March 2023; Friday, March 10, 2023, 16h30pm-18h00pm, Caribe Hilton – Conference Room 7- Conference Center 2nd Floor

• • Prof. Angela Nuovo, University of Milan, Partnership, Collaboration, and Rivalry among Bookmen in the Gabiano Letters
  • Prof. Laura Pani, University of Udine, The Graphic Culture and Literacy of Gabiano’s Correspondents
  • Prof. Andrea Bocchi, University of Udine, The Merchant Letter between Commercial and Humanistic Style: Insights from the Gabiano Papers

2022

• Revisiting Print and Power in Early Modern Europe: New Perspectives on Privileges and Official Publications, SHARP Annual Meeting – Power of the Written Word, Amsterdam 11–15 July 2022; Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 11:45am-13:15pm, Maurits Room, KIT Royal Tropical Institute

• • Prof. Angela Nuovo, University of Milan: The Power of Book Privileges in Italy: Protection, Promotion and Content Regulation
  • Dr. Saskia Limbach, Universität Göttingen: Rewards and Punishments: Collaborations of Governments and Printers in Sixteenth-Century
  • Dr. Andrea Ottone, University of Milan: The Business with Religion: Printing the 1595 Pontificale Romanum by Giacomo Luna, Leonardo Parasole & Co

• Study Week – The Knowledge Economy, Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth, Study Week – The Knowledge Economy, Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth, 13^th to 18^th Century, Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini”, LIII settimana di studi, Prato, 8–11 May 2022 Tuesday, May 10, 2022 15:00 pm- 18:00 pm, Polo Universitario Pratese – Innovazioni nella tecnologia, nella produzione e nel commercio/Innovation In Technology, Production, and Commerce
  • Dr. Joran Proot, Cultura Fonds, Dilbeek: The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550
  • Dr. Renaud Milazzo, University of Milan: The development and use of innovative knowledge tools in the book trade at the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp, ca. 1555–ca. 1596: M 296 and its archival context
  • Dr. Andrea Ottone, University of Milan: Market assessment and risk prediction: resources and knowhow of a seventeenth century bookseller of Venice coping with competition
• Mercantile Know-How and New Technologies: Venetian Traders and the Early Modern European Book Market, RSA Annual Meeting, Thursday, March 31, 2022 2:30 pm ̵̶ 4:00 pm, Marsh’s Library, Dublin
  Panel Organizer: Dr Andrea Ottone
  Chair: Dr Flavia Bruni
  • Prof. Angela Nuovo and Prof. Francesca De Battisti, University of Milan: Book Prices in Early Modern Venice
  • Dr. Francesco Ammannati, University of Florence, The Book Publisher as a Businessman: Some Economic Aspects of the Book-Trade in the Renaissance
  • Dr. Andrea Ottone, University of Milan, The Giunti’s Sense of the Market

2021

• Milano Bookcity 2021 – Scuole, libri e cultura economica a Milano nel Rinascimento, 19 Nov. 2021, 14:30-16.00, Milano, via Conservatorio 7, aula 10
  • Giuseppe De Luca, Angela Nuovo, Federico Piseri speak about their book La formazione del mercante, Milan: Delfino, 2021
• Colloque Le monde de l’imprimé en Europe occidental, XV^e – XVI^e siècle, Paris, École
  nationale des Chartres – Centre Jean-Mabillon, 13 November 2021
  • Joran Proot, Le prix du livre au XVI e siècle : le cas de Christophe Plantin
• Antwerp Seminar of the EMoBookTrade Project, Auditorium of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, AntwerpChair: Prof. Angela Nuovo, PI
  • Dr. Saskia Limbach: Paying for Frankfurt books: Sigmund Feyerabend and the prices of his legal publications
  • Dr. Francesco Ammannati: Currencies, exchange rates and book prices in Europe between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Dr. Goran Proot: Statistical analysis of EMoBookTrade data

2020

• Seminar in the History of the Book Migration & Survival, Oxford, 14 February 2020
  • Angela Nuovo, Francesco Ammannati, Goran Proot, The price of books in early modern Europe

• International conference Institutions and Book Market during the Early Modern Period: Between Regulation and Promotion, Seville, 6–7 February 2020
  • Angela Nuovo, Book Privileges in the Early Modern Age: from Trade Protection and Promotion to Content Regulation
  • Renaud Milazzo, Book Prices in the 16^th Century. Pricing Practices in Antwerp and Lyon
  • Andrea Ottone, Serving the Church, Feeding the Academia: The Giunti’s Publishing Agenda in the Framework of a Transnational Network

2019

• Angela Nuovo, Andrea Ottone, Erika Squassina, I privilegi librari nella prima età moderna fra tutela dell’editoria e disciplina dei contenuti, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 10 December 2019

• Angela Nuovo, Francesco Ammannati, Andrea Ottone, Erika Squassina, Il ruolo dei privilegi nella produzione e diffusione dei testi a stampa, Milan, 15 November 2019

• Angela Nuovo – Giliola Barbero, La storia economica del libro: teoria e pratica, Milan, 30 October 2019

• Goran Proot, Le prix du livre à Paris (1541-1552), Paris – Aubervilliers, 24 October 2019

• International conference Le monde économique et social du livre en Italie et en Europe. Un espace transnational et européen ?, Rome, 28–29 May 2019
  • Renaud Milazzo, Le prix des livres à Lyon et Anvers au XVI^e siècle : concurrence ou consensus ?
  • Andrea Ottone, L’analisi dei costi di produzione del Pontificale Romanum di Leonardo Parasole, 1595
  • Launch of the database Early Modern Book Prices:
    • Giliola Barbero, Il database EMoBookPrices come strumento di ricerca
    • Luigi Tessarolo, Aspetti informatici
    • Francesco Ammannati, Aspetti contabili, monetari e metodologici
    • Goran Proot, Research Possibilities of Book Prices

• Angela Nuovo and Armando Torno discuss Anna Maria Raugei, Gianvincenzo Pinelli e la sua biblioteca (Droz, 2018), Milan, 16 May 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 – Watch the video podcasts
  • 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)