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

    • 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, 13th to 18th 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, XVe – XVIe siècle, Paris, École
    nationale des Chartres – Centre Jean-Mabillon, 13 November 2021
  • 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 16th 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

  • 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 XVIe 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 17th Century)

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, 811 May 2016
    • Angela Nuovo, The Price of Books in Italy (XV–XVI centuries)

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