Directed by Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli
18 June – 13 July 2001
Supported by generous grants from The Gladys Krieble DelmasFoundation, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, and theNewberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium universities, with special assistance from Northwestern University.
Drs. Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli, who led the 1993 Newberry Library Summer Institute in the Italian Archival Sciences, returned to direct the 2001 Summer Institute. Under their tutelage, participants received intensive training in the accurate reading and transcription of late medieval and Renaissance Italian vernacular texts. Although the major emphasis of the Institute was on paleographical skills, codicological techniques and analytical bibliography, the history of scripts, within the larger literary, intellectual and social contexts of Italy was considered. Participants were also introduced to textual editing, receiving training in the techniques required to proceed from a manuscript to a modern critical edition. The course was conducted in Italian.
ARMANDO PETRUCCI, formerly Director of the Institute of Paleography at the University of Rome, now teaches at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His latest publications include Alfabetismo, escritura, sociedad (1999) and Prima lezione di storia della cultura scritta (forthcoming), as well as articles and essays on the history of writing and literacy. He is currently preparing a critical edition of all original correspondence in Latin dating from the seventh to the eleventh centuries.
FRANCA PETRUCCI NARDELLI, author of numerous studies on the history and codicology of the printed book, and the politics and culture of the Italian Renaissance, currently teaches at the University of Pisa and the “Corso europeo di specializzazione per conservatori e restauratori di beni librari” of Spoleto. Her most recent publications include articles and essays on printing and binding history, and Fra stampa e legature (forthcoming).