Wednesday primary source #11

This journal was recently acquired by me and my colleague Ben Stone, the curator of British and American History. It is available in Special Collections.

The Calais Messenger: Journal D'annonces Et De Littérature Publié En Anglais. Calais: [s.n.], 1826-1827.

From the dealer's description:
35 issues (almost certainly a complete run), 4to (280 × 210 mm), each issue pp. 4, printed in 3 columns with drop-head titles, some woodcut ornaments (mainly depicting ships), tax stamps to each issue. The complete run is found across two bound > volumes (each incomplete) which between them also have duplicate issues of 3-10, 21-30. Blue paper wrappers, spines defective, one cover wanting, stitching loose. This collection comprises a very good copy of each issue of the paper... Printed by Le Roy in the Rue de Boucheries, the paper is a mixture of commercial advertising (with fascinating insights into Anglo-French commerce, especially in brewing, vitualling and lace-making) and local and international news, together with some literary snippets. Each issue provides information on Mail times, tides at Calais, stage-coaches, ships arriving and departing the port and French and English stock prices. Altogether they illustrate the extent of the little-studied English presence in the town: there was an English theatre (issue 1 advertises the arrival of several “distinguished performers” on November 1826) and an English Protestant Church (whose opening is announced in the final issue in 1827), together with several English coffee-houses and taverns.

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8136268

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books

A selection of recent antiquarian arrivals from the past few months:

Boigne, Eléonore-Adèle d’Osmond comtesse de. La Maréchale d’Aubemer. Nouvelle du XVIIIe siècle. Michel Lévy, 1867.

Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie. L’Acharnée. Fasquelle, 1910.

Melon, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnévide, histoire orientale, fragment traduit de l'arabe avec des notes. Rotterdam: chez G. Hofhoudt, 1729.

Tresvaux du Fraval. Histoire de la persécution révolutionnaire en Bretagne. Saint-Brieuc, 1892.

Vilmorin, Louise de. L’Alphabet des aveux. Gallimard, 1954.

Alajmo, Calogero. Da Cavour a Musso­lini. Prefazione del Luogotenente Generale Italo Bresciani. Primo migliaio, Roma, Arte della Stampa [stampa: Stab. Tip. Arte della Stampa - Roma], 1933 [A. XI].

Bettin, Lio. L’autocritica del movimento stu­dentesco, Padova - Roma, SBL Agenzia ‘70, “Contro la scuola” [stampa: Litopress - Marino, Roma], 1970 (settembre).

Guglielminetti, Amalia (Torino 1885 - 1941), L’insonne, Milano, Fratelli Treves Editori [stampa: Tip. Fratelli Treves], 1913.

Dante's Inferno - as a video game

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/arts/television/09inferno.html

From the review, it doesn't sound like it will stand the test of time.

Instead, check out some of these early editions in Special Collections:

Dante Alighieri, Iacopo Della Lana, Benvenutus, and Giovanni Boccaccio. La Commedia. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1477.

Dante Alighieri, Cristoforo Landino, Nicolaus Laurentii, and Baccio Baldini. Comento Di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino Sopra La Comedia Di Danthe Alighieri Poeta Fiorentino. Impresso in Firenze: Per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna, 1481.

Dante Alighieri, Pietro, Cristoforo Landino, Pietro Quarengi, Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri, and Dante Alighieri. Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino. Impressa in Venetia: Per Piero de Zuanne di Quarengii da Palazago Bergamasco, 1497.

Dante Alighieri, and Aldo Manuzio. Le Terze Rime Di Dante. Venetiis: in aedib. Aldi. accvratissime, 1502.

Dante Alighieri, Girolamo Benivieni, Antonio Manetti, Giorgio Fanan, and Filippo Giunta. Commedia Di Dante : Insieme Con Uno Dialogo Circa El Sito Forma Et Misure Dello Inferno. Impresso in Firenze: Per opera & spesa di Philippo di Giunta Fiorentino, 1506.

Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Vellutello, Leonardo Bruni, and Francesco Marcolini. La Comedia. Impressa in Vinegia: Per Francesco Marcolini ad instantia di Alessandro Vellutello, 1544.

And for a more contemporary illustrated take, see:

Dante Alighieri, et al. Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. Illustrated by Sandow Birk. Translated by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders. Brisbane, Calif.: Trillium Press, 2003-2004.
Special Collections, Gunst Collection.

New Acquisitions, arrivals in November and December

I've been saving up this list of new titles that arrived at the end of 2009. Hopefully you'll find something of interest!

French

1969-2009, les archives françaises du film: histoire, collections, restaurations. Paris: CNC, 2009.

Badiou, Alain, and Nicolas Truong. Eloge de l'amour. Paris: Flammarion, 2009.

Baronian, Jean Baptiste. Rimbaud. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2009.

Belaubre, Christophe, Jordana Dym, and John Savage. Napoléon et les Amériques: histoire atlantique et empire napoléonien. Toulouse: CNRS-UMR 5136-FRAMESPA, 2009.

Charle, Christophe, dir. Le temps des capitales culturelles: XVIIIe-XXe siècles. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2009. 368p. €28.00.

Dorlin, Elsa, and Eric Fassin. Genres & sexualités: actes du Colloque Des femmes et des hommes, genres et sexualités. Paris: Bibliothèque publique d'information, 2009.

Farge, Arlette. Essai pour une histoire des voix au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bayard, 2009.

Hahn, H. Hazel. Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Heulot-Petit, Françoise, and Lise Michel. La reconnaissance sur la scène française: XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2009.

Les mots et les choses de Michel Foucault: regards critiques 1966-1968. Edited by Philippe Artières. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2009.

Manceron, Gilles, and Emmanuel Naquet. Etre dreyfusard, hier et aujourd'hui. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.

Pinol, Jean-Luc, and Maurice Garden. Atlas des Parisiens: de la révolution à nos jours. Population, territoire et habitat, productions et services, religion, culture, loisirs. Paris: Parigramme, 2009.

Renaut, Alain. Un humanisme de la diversité: essai sur la décolonisation des identités. Paris: Flammarion, 2009.

Robert, Véronique. Devenir Céline: lettres inédites de Louis Destouches et de quelques autres, 1912-1919. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2009.

Simon, Jacques. Biographes de Messali Hadj: Charles-André Julien, Daniel Guérin, Mahfoud Kaddache, Charles-Robert Ageron, René Gallisot, Mohamed Harbi, Benjamin Stora. Paris: Harmattan, 2009.

Todorov, Tzvetan. La signature humaine: essais 1983-2008. Paris: Seuil, 2009.

Tshimanga, Charles, Ch. Didier Gondola, and Peter J. Bloom. Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.

Wahnich, Sophie. Les émotions, la révolution française et le présent: exercices pratiques de conscience historique. Paris: CNRS, 2009.

Wakeman, Rosemary. The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Yourcenar, Marguerite, Susana Barón Supervielle, and Achmy Halley. Une reconstitution passionnelle: correspondance 1980-1987. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2009.

Zytnicki, Colette, and Habib Kazdaghli. Le tourisme dans l'empire français: politiques, pratiques et imaginaires (XIXe-XXe siècles) : un outil de la domination coloniale? [Saint-Denis]: Publications de la Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 2009.

Italian

Ariosto, Lodovico, and David R. Slavitt. Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Baroncelli, Cosimo, and Marina Macchio. Il discorso del Sig.re Cosimo Baroncelli fatto a' suoi figliuli dove s'intende la vita di Don Giovanni Medici figlio naturale del Gran Duca Cosimo Primo con la morte di Concino Concini e Dianora sua mogle e della Sig.ra Livia Vernazzi moglie del suddetto Don Giovanni de' Medici. Firenze: Nicomp, 2009.

Barzaghi, Ilaria M. P. Milano 1881: tanto lusso e tanta folla : rappresentazione della modernità e modernizzazione popolare. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, 2009.

Behan, Tom. The Italian Resistance: Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies. London: Pluto Press, 2009.

Biagi, Enzo, and Loris Mazzetti. I quattordici mesi: la mia Resistenza. [Milan, Italy]: Rizzoli, 2009.

Bove, Giovanni. Scrivere futurista: la rivoluzione tipografica tra scrittura e immagine. Roma: Nuova cultura, 2009.

Camiscioli, Elisa. Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

Castellaneta, Stella, and Francesco S. Minervini. Sacro e/ o profano nel teatro fra Rinascimento ed età dei lumi: atti del convegno di studi, Bari, 7-10 febbraio 2007. Bari: Cacucci, 2009.

Cavalluzzi, Raffaele, ed. Sud e cultura antifascista: letteratura, riviste, cinema, radio. Bari: Progedit, 2009.

Coluccia, Giuseppe L. Basilio Bessarione: lo spirito greco e l'Occidente. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2009.

Da Rif, Bianca Maria, and Silvio Ramat. Antologie. Collana di italianistica. Padova: Il poligrafo, 2009.

De Pascale, Gaia. Qui non si canta al modo delle rane: la città delle poetiche futuriste. Milano [etc.]: Mimesis, 2009.

DellaNeva, JoAnn. Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Imitating Beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.

Foot, John. Italy's Divided Memory. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Gibellini, Pietro, and Nicola Di Nino. La Bibbia nella letteratura italiana. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009.

Grell, Chantal. Anne d'Autriche: infante d'Espagne et reine de France. [Paris]: Perrin, 2009.

Grubb, James S. Family memoirs from Venice, 15th-17th centuries. Fonti per la storia di Venezia. Roma: Viella, 2009.

Guilloux, Louis, and dir. Philippe Roger. D'une guerre à l'autre. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2009.

Haquette, Jean-Louis. Echos d'Arcadie: les transformations de la tradition littéraire pastorale des lumières au romantisme. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2009.

Iannuzzi, Giulia. L'informazione letteraria nel web: tra critica, dibattito, impegno e autori emergenti. Milano: Biblion, 2009. – with info on Italian digital literature sites.

L'université et la recherche en colère: un mouvement social inédit. Bellecombe-en-Bauges: Croquant, 2009.

Metcalfe, A. The Muslims of Medieval Italy. The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Monza, Fabio, Francesca Lomastro Tognato, Lidia Pasqualotto, and Silvia Tecchio. I zornali di Fabio Monza nella Vicenza di Palladio. Venetomondo, 2. Roma: Viella, 2009.

Olivieri, Achille. All'interno delle culture-mondo di Venezia nel Settecento: metodologie e indagini. Roma: Aracne, 2009.

Panvini, Guido. Ordine nero, guerriglia rossa: la violenza politica nell'Italia degli anni Sessanta e Settanta (1966-1975). Torino: G. Einaudi, 2009.

Pertici, Roberto. Chiesa e Stato in Italia: dalla grande guerra al nuovo concordato, 1914-1984. Bologna: Il mulino, 2009.

Politique par correspondance: les usages politiques de la lettre en Italie, XIVe-XVIIIe siècle. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.

Rossi, Massimiliano, and Anna Maria Busse Berger. Memory and invention: Medieval and Renaissance literature, art and music : acts of an international conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, May 11, 2006. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2009.

Torelli, Pomponio. Teatro. Parma: U. Guanda, 2009.

Zannini, Andrea. Venezia città aperta: gli stranieri e la Serenissima, XIV-XVIII sec. Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2009.