RICABIM. Biblioteche medievali d’Italia

The ten essays compiled in this volume, originating from the international workshop organized at the Department of Letters and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" on April 13 and 14, 2016, represent as many case studies related to the enhancement of the inventory document as a specular reflection of often the sole information on lost libraries. These ten investigations span from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era, with a progression corresponding to the proliferation of documents between the 14th and 16th centuries. They cover some of the most representative areas of the Peninsula in terms of the surveyed data: Veneto, Tuscany, and the Kingdom. Between proper studies and editions of hitherto unpublished sources, this miscellany aims to provide an applied essay on the possible uses of the RICABIM inventory and, at the same time, demonstrate how it can stimulate a range of responses to the more ambitious challenge posed to scholars by the yet-to-be-unearthed and critically presented inventory sources in the broader field of cultural history.