Panel for grant recipients
19 November @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Anna Lanfranchi: Italian Readers, American Books and the Second World War: Propaganda and Publishing History in the Archive.
During WWII, the United States employed books to foster the Allied war effort and “disintoxicate” audiences from Fascist propaganda in liberated territories (Hench 2010). This paper considers the publishing and translation activity targeting Italy and Italian-speaking readers to explore how archives may help us problematise the relationship between cultural diplomacy, the transnational book trade, and the response of target reading communities.
Anouska Lester: Cataloguing the Libraries of William and Silvester Petyt in Skipton and Inner Temple.
In the early eighteenth century, brothers William and Silvester Petyt donated substantial collections of books and manuscripts to Inner Temple and their hometown of Skipton in Yorkshire. This paper examines the Petyts’ contributions to their communities in London and Skipton, and what the extant eighteenth-century catalogues reveal about their collecting practices.
Silvia Pugliese: The paper production in the eighteenth century Venetian Republic through its use in large format prints and books .
In the eighteenth century several paper districts were active in the Venetian Republic, producing different qualities of paper for both the internal and foreign markets. The material examination of some examples of luxury large size books of prints, combined with archival documentation, offers the possibility to start tracing a map of the paper makers involved in the manufacture of the finest papers throughout the century.