New Acquisitions, Arrivals from August-September 2010

French 
Adams, Christine. Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Ahearne, Jeremy. Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.

Azérad, Hugo, and Peter Collier. Twentieth-century French poetry: a critical anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Berbouche, Alain. Marine et justice: la justice criminelle de la Marine française sous l'Ancien Régime. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Bourdin, Philippe. Les noblesses françaises dans l'Europe de la Révolution: actes du colloque international de Vizille (10-12 septembre 2008). Rennes [France]: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Brown, Andrew. Brief Lives: Stendhal. London: Hesperus Press, 2010.

Castaing, Bernard. L'itinéraire spirituel d'un négociant bayonnais: le journal de Bernard Castaing, 1818-1842. Pau: Cairn, 2010.

Chafer, Tony, and Emmanuel Godin. The End of the French Exception?: Decline and Revival of the 'French Model'. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Chevallier, Fabienne. Le Paris moderne: histoire des politiques d'hygiène, 1855-1898. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Denoyelle, Corinne. Poétique du dialogue médiéval. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Gaffney, John. Political Leadership in France: From Charles De Gaulle to Nicholas Sarkozy. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Harris, Ruth. Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010.

Hiner, Susan. Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Khadra, Yasmina. What the day owes the night. London: William Heinemann, 2010.

Kong, Katherine. Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010.

Nord, Philip G. France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Primi, Alice. Femmes de progrès: françaises et allemandes engagées dans leur siècle 1848-1870. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Schwarzfuchs, Simon. La politique napoléonienne envers les juifs dans l'empire. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Tuttle, Leslie. Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Wolin, Richard. The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Italian
Addante, Luca. Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano. Roma: Laterza, 2010.

Ansaldi, Saverio. Giordano Bruno: une philosophie de la métamorphose. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010.

Arielli, Nir. Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1933-40. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Belco, Victoria. War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Capponi, Niccolò. An Unlikely Prince: The Life and the Times of Machiavelli. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010.

Di Nolfo, Ennio. La guerra fredda e l'Italia, 1941-1989. Firenze: Polistampa, 2010.

Magaletta, Giuseppe. Pier Paolo Pasolini: le opere, la musica, la cultura. Foggia: Diana Galiani, 2009.

Orlando, Ermanno. Sposarsi nel Medioevo: percorsi coniugali tra Venezia, mare e continente. Roma: Viella, 2010.

Pandimiglio, Leonida. Famiglia e memoria a Firenze. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2010.

Peterson, Thomas E. The revolt of the scribe in modern Italian literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Salsini, Laura A. Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers' Epistolary Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Santucci, Antonio A. Antonio Gramsci. Translated by Graziella Di Mauro, and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010.

Schwarz, Guri. Tu mi devi seppellir: riti funebri e culto nazionale alle origini della Repubblica. [Turin, Italy]: UTET libreria, 2010.

Terpstra, Nicholas. Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Zinni, Maurizio. Fascisti di celluloide: la memoria del ventennio nel cinema italiano, 1945-2000. Venezia: Marsilio, 2010.

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books - August/September 2010

Here are some items that we recently added to Stanford's collection, all Italian this time:

Roberti, Giovanni Battista. Lettera Sul Prendere, Come Dicono, L'aria Et Il Sole. S.l, 1775.
Just in time for our Indian summer, an 18^th century treatise on the benefits of sunbathing…

CAVALCANTI, Andrea. Esequie del serenissimo principe Francesco, celebrate in Fiorenza dal serenissimo Ferdinando II, granduca di Toscana, svo fratello, nell'insigne collegiata di S. Lorenzo il dì 30 d'agosto 1634. Florence: Per Gio: Batista Landini, 1634. 4to, 52 pp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, engraved folding plate, full page portrait and 8 text engravings by Stefano della Bella.

Francesco II de’ Medici, one of the eight children of Cosimo II, died of the plague in 1634, after a very short military career. Not much is known of his life. This work is more interesting for the account that it offers of the staging and symbolism of seventeenth-century funeral celebrations, with images of the catafalque, emblems, and a portrait of the dead. Andrea Cavalcanti was a member of an important Florentine family allied with the Medici’s. A member of the Accademia della Crusca, bibliophile and author, he wrote several other accounts of obsequies, on the funerals of King Louis XIII of France, and Ferdinando II, as well as works of biography, and was a member of the Florentine intellectual circles of the era.

Montesquieu in italiano

MONTESQUIEU, C.-L. Spirito delle leggi del signore di Montesquieu con le note dell'Abate Antonio Genovesi. Tomo Primo [-Tomo Quarto]. Napoli, Domenico Terres, (1777). With portraits of Montesquieu and Genovesi. Four volumes bound in two. 

An earlier edition of Montesquieu's masterpiece had been published in 1750 but that publication suffered severely from censorship. The publisher Domenico Terres, who had Genovesi's manuscript with his comments, obtained permission to publish the book with the comments. Added to the book were also d'Alembert's Elogio del Sig. Presidente di Montesquieu and his Analisi dello Spirito del Leggi Per servire di continuazione all'Elogio, Montesquieu's Discorso ..... nell'essere amesso all'Academia Francese, the Difensa dello spirito delle leggi, and Voltaire's Ringraziamento sincero ad un uomo caritatevole. The 4th volume contains a very extensive index (pp. 149-366). Antonio Genovesi (1713-1769) was an Italian philosopher and economist. He was much interested in theology and in philosophy, his interest in economics came later and together these formed the intellectual triangle within which all his studies were carried out. This diversity allowed him to grasp the import of the new culture of the Enlightenment and to denounce the cultural and social backwardness of the Kingdom of Naples (that is to say, of southern Italy), with unsurpassed orginality. He read and studied Vico, Cartesianism and was drawn to John Locke and the freethinkers. (adapted from vendor’s notes (A. Gerits) )

Wednesday primary source #17 - Jacobins in Marseille

Ricord, Alexandre. Journal Des Départemens Méridionaux Et Des Débats Des Amis De La Constitution De Marseille. Marseille: [s.n.], 1792-1793.

This is a recent acquisition of an important journal documenting the French Revolution in Marseille. It includes 183 (of a total of 184) issues of the journal of the Jacobins of Marseille and its surrounding area. Following the lead of the Observateur marseillais, which folded in 1790, the Journal des départemens méridionaux appeared three times a week in 1792-1793. In addition to Marseille, it counted subscribers among Jacobin clubs in neighboring cities as well as in Paris. The Journal contained reports of the clubs' debates, news from the Revolution, including a section on what was happening Martinique, popular songs and poems, as well as reviews of plays and books. It would be great source material for anyone looking to work on how the French Revolution was experienced in the provinces. And complete runs, as this almost is, do not exist, even in France. For an overview of French Revolution journals in Marseille, see this article.

Ricord, Alexandre. Journal Des Départemens Méridionaux Et Des Débats Des Amis De La Constitution De Marseille. Marseille: [s.n.], 1792-1793.

 Physical Description: v. ; In-4.
     Volume/date range: N° 1 (6 mars 1792)-n° 184 (7 mai 1793)-
                  Note: Interrompu par le mouvement fédéraliste en mai 1793
                        à Marseille.
                  Note: Organe du club des Amis de la Constitution de
                        Marseille.
                  Note: Devient : = ISSN 2021-5215.
          Added author: Ricord, Alexandre, dit Alexandre Ricord fils ou Pavot
                        Ricord fils puis Alexandre Ricord aîné.
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French cultural outings

Well this first one is a stretch, but I had the good fortune to go to see Bill Irwin's adaptation of Molière's play Les fourberies de Scapin, entitled Scapin at ACT in San Francisco last night, and highly recommend it if you aren't afraid of physical comedy, clowns, and modern adaptations of 17th century French drama. As someone who grew up seeing Bill Irwin (Scapin) and Geoff Hoyle (Geronte), in the Pickle Family Circus in the 1970s and 80s, it is always a treat to see them perform (and to live across from their original rehearsal space!). It is playing through October 17 at the Geary Theater.

Also coming up in late October is French Cinema Now, a weeklong festival of new French film sponsored by the SF Film Society. Tickets are on sale now, and the films featured include:
Two in the Wave (2009) about Truffaut and Godard

Copie conforme (2010) by Abbas Kiarostami with Juliette Binoche

 and
Copacabana (2010) by Marc Fitoussi with Isabelle Huppert

all photos taken from the SFIFF webpage.

Tickets for both Scapin and French Cinema Now will probably sell out, so get them now!

What I did on my summer vacation

I returned last week from a few weeks in Europe, where a highlight was a week-long class on material/physical bibliography at the Institut d'histoire du Livre in Lyon, taught by Dominique Varry. It was an intense and very useful course held at the ENS-Lyon, with sessions at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, which is the second-biggest library in France after the BnF, the ENSSIB, the French national library school, and the Musée de l'Imprimerie.

There were other courses on the history of typography, paper and watermarks, and ephemera taught to a very international and diverse group of students, including librarians, literary scholars, book artists, and rare books dealers.

One highlight was an evening at the Musée de l'Imprimerie, where Nelly Gable, the punch cutter at the Imprimerie nationale, showed how she replicates types from old punches.

Afterward, off to meet my family and eat some gelato!
(photos to come...)