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Anthony Grafton: The First Bibliophiles, 24 July 2025
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
by Andrew Hui.
Princeton, 303 pp., £25, January,978 0 691 24332 0 Show More
by Andrew Hui.
Princeton, 303 pp., £25, January,
The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
by Seth Kimmel.
Chicago, 262 pp., £40, May 2024,978 0 226 83317 0 Show More
by Seth Kimmel.
Chicago, 262 pp., £40, May 2024,
“... distraction, Augustine recommends that he make notes in the margin.Petrarch wrote many notes and drew the odd picture. More important, he transformed reading into something new, a literary enterprise organically connected to his career as poet, philosopher and historian. Like Robert Graves, he admitted that he preferred certain books – the Latin classics ... ”