- Docente: Lorenzo Baldacchini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Cooperation, Protection of Human Rights and Cultural Heritage in Mediterranean Sea and Eurasia (cod. 8516)
Learning outcomes
The focus is the printed book as a material object and its archeological aspects. Then the instruments of analitical description according with modern technologies. At the end students are able to recognize and solve the main problems of printed books, particularly concerning the hand-press books, their bibliographic identification and their material conservation.
Course contents
Archeology of printed book. Hand-press book as a material object. Caracters and title pages. Bibliographic description
Readings/Bibliography
- CHAPPEL, Warren - BRINGHURST, Robert, A Short History of the Printed Word. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks, 1999
- BALDACCHINI, Lorenzo, Aspettando il frontespizio. Pagine bianche, occhietti e colophon nel libro antico. Milano: Ed Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004. Alternative text: One of the proceedings of Conservare il Novecento. Roma: AIB, 2001-2010.
- BALDACCHINI, Lorenzo, Il libro antico. Nuova ed. aggiornata. Roma: Carocci, 2001
Teaching methods
Traditional lessons, exercises in library
Assessment methods
Oral examination, exercises of bibliographic identification
Teaching tools
Paper, types, title-pages, printed images analysis
Office hours
See the website of Lorenzo Baldacchini