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Adelung, Johann Christoph
Philologist, German historian and scholar, professor in Leipzig from 1763, then libra [...]
Aguesseau, Henri François d'
Aguesseau, Henri François d', in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Aleandro, Girolamo
Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal, was born at Motta, near Venice, on the 13th of F [...]
Almeloveen, Theodorus Janssonius van
Physicist and humanist. His father was a reformed minister, his mother, Maria Jansson [...]
Angiulli, Andrea
Philosopher and educationist, among the initiators of positivism in Italy, to which h [...]
Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Anquetil Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Antoni, Carlo
Historian of Philosophy. Professor of German Literature at the University of Padua (1 [...]
Ardigò, Roberto
The main exponent of Italian positivism, he undertook the study of the classics at Ma [...]
Arminius, Jacobus
Dutch reformed pastor and theologian, Jacobus Arminius (Latinized name of Jacob Harme [...]
Ast, Friedrich
German philologist, university professor first in Landshut (1805) and then in Munich, [...]
Aubé, Benjamin
French philosopher, teacher of Bergson at the Lycée Condorcet. H. Gouhier (Bergson et [...]
Aurispa, Giovanni
Giovanni Aurispa, one of the learned Italians of the 15th century, who did so much to [...]
Bachelier, Nicolas
Canon and Dean of the Cathedral in Reims and honorary papal camerario, Nicolas Bachel [...]
Badaloni, Nicola
Philosopher, historian of science, and politician. After taking part, as a very young [...]
Barbaro, Ermolao
Italian scholar, was born at Venice on the 21st of May 1454. At an early age he was s [...]
Barozzi, Pietro
Humanist, bishop first of Belluno (1471-1487), then of Padua (1487-1507), Barozzi rec [...]
Battaglia, Felice
Felice Battaglia was one of the most important twentieth century Italian scholars of [...]
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
Philosopher and scholar of aesthetics, student of Ch. Wolff and directly inspired by [...]
Beatus Rhenanus
Philologist, he received an aristocratic title from Charles V in 1523. His texts and [...]
Beeckman, Isaac
Physicist, philosopher and physician. He studied literature and philosophy in Leiden [...]
Berkeley, George
H.R. Mead, A Bibliography of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley 1910; T. E. J [...]
Bernard, Claude
Bernard, Claude, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Bessarione, Basilio
Greek scholar and Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, notable as a patron of learning and a [...]
Biblioteca filosofica (Firenze)
The "Biblioteca filosofica", founded in Florence as a theosophical society on the ini [...]
Boissonade, Jean François de Fontarabie
French classical scholar, was born at Paris on the 12th of August 1774. In 1792 he en [...]
Bouhéreau, Elias
Huguenot; he was a physician and theologian. Son of one of the Protestant pastors of [...]
Bourdelot, Jean
Counselor of the Parliament of Paris (1627) and Maître des Requêtes to Queen Maria de [...]
Bourdelot, Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon, aka the abbé, the son of a surgeon from Sens who moved to Geneva, was [...]
Brucker, Johann Jakob
Brucker, Johann Jakob, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Bruno, Giordano
G. Aquilecchia, Giordano Bruno, in Encyclopædia Britannica; G. Aquilecchia, Bruno, Gi [...]
Buddeus (Budeus), Karl Franz
German jurist and politician, second son of the theologian Johann Franz. Studied in J [...]
Bufalini, Maurizio
Born in Cesena in 1787, he studied at the University of Bologna. He began teaching th [...]
Burnet, Gilbert
Burnet, Gilbert, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Burnouf, Eugène
French Orientalist. Professor of grammar at the École Normale Supérieure (1829). In 1 [...]
Buxtorf, Johannes Jakob
He succeeded his father as chair of Hebrew in Basel (1664). In 1665, he left the city [...]
Calleri (Callery), Giuseppe Gaetano Pietro Massimo Maria
Sinologist, he was ordained a priest in 1834. He became a missionary in China, and th [...]
Canevari, Demetrio
Member of a mercantile family, he was born in Genoa in 1559. His father wanted him to [...]
Cantimori, Delio
Italian historian. Student of the Scuola Normale in Pisa. In 1934 Giovanni Gentile of [...]
Cantoni, Carlo
Professor of anthropology and theoretical philosophy at the Accademia scientifico-let [...]
Carlini, Armando
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Cassini, Jacques
Son of Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712), admitted at the age of seventeen to mem [...]
Chabod, Federico
Storico italiano. Formatosi a Torino sotto la guida di P. Egidi, Chabod divenne alla [...]
Chapelain, Jean
A French poet and littérateur, one of the first members of the French Academy, and in [...]
Chardin, Jean
Jean Chardin, a Huguenot jeweller, travelled twice to Asia (1644-1670 and 1671-1680) [...]
Chézy, Antoine-Léonard de
French Orientalist, member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. He Stu [...]
Cioran, Emil
Emil Mihai Cioran, Encyclopædia Britannica.
Le Clerc, Jean
Swiss protestant theologian known as Joannes Clericus.
Codignola, Ernesto
Italian educator, neoidealist, he taught at the University of Florence from 1923 and [...]
Colin, Nicolas
Son of Guilaume Colin, councilor at the présidial in Reims, Nicolas Colin entered int [...]
Collins, Anthony
Anthony Collins - whose main works include An Essay Concerning the Use of Reason in P [...]
Conring, Hermann
Historian, jurist, physician and philosopher, professor at the University of Helmsted [...]
Cousin, Victor
French philosopher, promoter of spiritual eclecticism, after 1830 he was the official [...]
Creuzer, Georg Friedrich
German philologist and archaeologist, was born on the 10th of March 1771, at Marburg, [...]
Cristina di Svezia (Kristina Vasa)
Ruth Stephan, Christina queen of Sweden, in Britannica Encyclopædia.
Croce, Benedetto
P. Craveri, K.E. Lönne, G. Patrizi, Croce, Benedetto, in Dizionario Biografico degli [...]
Crusius, Christian Gotthold
Counsellor of the court, first supervisor of the royal library of Dresden.
Cudworth, Ralph
Philosopher and English theologian, Cudworth studied at Cambridge. A professor of Heb [...]
Cusano, Nicola
Nikolaus Krebs (or Kryffs) von Kues, in latin Nicolaus Cusanus or Nicolaus de Cusa. G [...]
Cyrano de Bergerac, Hector-Savinien
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dacier, Bon-Joseph
French scholar; his translations of Varia historia (Histoires diverses) by Claudio El [...]
Libraries Catalogues
Biblioteca y Archivo de José Ortega y Gasset
Ortega y Gasset’s library, donated by his heirs to the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset (FJOG), contains 8,900 descriptions. The Archives [...]
Biblioteca comunale di Ortona, fondo Finamore
Vincenzo Finamore’s books are housed at the Public Library of Ortona (Chieti) in a special collection containing the books of his broth [...]
Biblioteca comunale "G. Tauro" di Castellana-Grotte, fondo librario Angiulli-Tauro
When Angiulli died, his library remained to his heirs along with his papers and his manuscripts. Subsequently, as far as we know, it wa [...]
Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione dell'Università di Bologna, fondo Felice Battaglia
In 1982 the University of Bologna dedicated the library of the then Department of Philosophy to Battaglia and later bought his private [...]
Biblioteca del Museo Galileo, biblioteca di Galileo
The library directory lists the inventory number which each work had in the bibliography of Antonio Favaro (La libreria di Galile [...]
Biblioteca del Museo pedagogico dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Catalogo della Biblioteca privata di Guido Calogero. Monografie e opuscoli, a cura di Adriana De Angelis
To accede to the catalogue of the Guido Calogero’s private library:From the website of the Biblioteca del Museo pedagogicoselect Fondi, [...]
Biblioteca del Museo pedagogico dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, fondo Adolfo Levi, catalogo delle monografie e degli opuscoli
To accede to the catalogue of the Adolfo Levi’s private library:From the website of the Biblioteca del Museo pedagogicoselect “fondi li [...]
Biblioteca del Museo pedagogico dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, fondo Mario Niccoli.
To accede to the catalogue of the Mario Niccoli’s private library:From the website of the Biblioteca del Museo pedagogicoselect “fondi [...]
Biblioteca dell'Università di Firenze, fondo Felice Tocco
Tocco’s volumes arrived at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence in part through purchase (1914) and in part as a donation from T [...]
Biblioteca dell'Università di Firenze, fondo Francesco De Sarlo
The De Sarlo collection was donated to the library of the Faculty of Humanities of Florence in 1939: it consists of 666 volumes, 668 br [...]
Biblioteca dell'Università di Firenze, fondo Moritz e Mario Schiff
Moritz Schiff’s scientific books were donated in 1917 by his daughter in law, wife of Mario Schiff, a French professor at the Instituto [...]
Biblioteca della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell'Università di Firenze, fondo Preti
The Preti collection was given to the Library of the Faculty of Education of the University Florence by his family and was inventoried [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Arnaldo Momigliano
The library of Momigliano, acquired in 1989 by the Scuola Normale, contains 17,325 volumes, 284 ring binders of extracts divided in two [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Arturo Moni
The acquisition of Arturo Moni’s library, mostly historical-philosophical and linguistic-literary, with some scientific materials, was [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Cesare Luporini
The library of Cesare Luporini and of his wife Maria Bianca Gallinaro was donated to the Scuola Normale, which formally accepted it on [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Delio Cantimori
Delio Cantimori’s library, which arrived at the Scuola Normale in 1969, contains 33,675 volumes and 11,125 extracts (19th-20th centurie [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Ernesto Codignola
Ernesto Codignola’s library, donated in 1979, contains 2,000 volumes and 2,500 brochures/extracts relating to the period of the Italian [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Eugenio Garin
Eugenio Garin willed his library and his papers to the Library of the Scuola Normale. The library contains 30,000 volumes, with edition [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, fondo Onofrio Nicastro
To accede to the catalogue of Onofrio Nicastro’s library: 1) Select SEARCH from the website of the Scuola Normale Superiore Library; 2) [...]
Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore, Fondo Paul Oskar Kristeller
The library, donated by Kristeller, reached the Scuola Normale during the 1990s. It contains more than 7,300 pamphlets and extracts and [...]
La Biblioteca Ferrater Mora, Università di Girona
Josep Mora Ferrater donated his personal library to the University of Girona in 1991. The library collection consists of 1.255 volumes [...]
La biblioteca labrioliana di Stefano Miccolis
Main works: A. Labriola, La politica italiana nel 1871-1872. Corrispondenze alle «Basler Nachrichten», a cura di S. M [...]
Biblioteca Labronica "F.D. Guerrazzi", fondo Nicola Badaloni
At his death in 2005, thanks to the donation by his family, the Biblioteca Labronica acquired his extensive patrimony of books and rela [...]
Biblioteca "A. Mai" di Bergamo, fondo Spaventa
At the death of Silvio Spaventa, his library (which included the library of his brother as well) was donated according to his will, tog [...]
Biblioteca Malatestiana, fondo Maurizio Bufalini, catalogo.
The collection was left to the city of Cesena by Bufalini. He always maintained a close relationship with his hometown, where a square [...]
Biblioteca personal de Xavier Zubiri
The personal library of Zubiri (the catalogue of which contains 7878 descriptions) is kept together with books from the collection of A [...]
Biblioteca Provinciale "Tommaso Stigliani" di Matera, fondo Lamanna
The library of Paolo Eustachio Lamanna can be reconstructed on the site of the Tommaso Stigliani Provincial Library of Matera.Lamanna w [...]
Bibliotheca Baumgartenianae Pars II. Sectio I quae Historica, Philosophica cum Physicis et Medicis, Philologica et alia ad disciplinas humaniores spectanctia complectitur, cum appendice Epistolicorum
The second part of the principal catalogue of the library includes, generally, "profane knowledge", so philosophical, juridical, histor [...]
Bibliotheca Baumgartenianae Pars II. Sectio II quae Litteraria, Palaeotypa, Juridica, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica, Anglica, Rabbinica, Orientalia, Miscellanea, Incompacta cum Appendice librorum omissorum varii argumenti complectitur, Halle, Ge [...]
The second section of the second part contains encyclopaedic texts and texts from manuals (the Historia eruditionis, the histories of t [...]
Bibliotheca Bonaventurae Vulcanii, Lugduni Batavorum 1610.
Location:Biblioteca Angelica, Roma
Bibliotheca Chardiniana or, a Catalogue of Books In all Faculties: Being the Remains of Sir John Chardin’s Library… Will be sold by Auction at Tom’s Coffee-House in St. Martin’s Lane on Monday the 23d Instant … By James Levi, Londra, James Levi, 1713, 22 [...]
Bibliotheca Chardiniana is an auction catalogue. James Levi, a London bookseller who organized the sale, was probably charged with its [...]
Bibliotheca Jo. Christoph. Adelungii exhibens apparatum lectissimum librorum tam impressorumquam manuscriptorum nec non dissertationum ad omnium fere linguarum literaturae geographiae historiae aliarumque doctrinarum genus spectantium
The sale catalogue, drawn up at Adelung’s death, lists 5,427 bibliographic descriptions, divided based on format.
Bibliotheca Cudworthiana, sive Catalogus variorum librorum plurimis facultatibus. Insignium Bibliothecæ instructissimæ Rev. Doct. Dr. Cudworth ... Quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... secundo die Februarii, 1690/1. Per Edvardum Millingtonum. [London,]: M [...]
The catalogue of Cudworth’s library is divided into six categories: theological books (487, plus 67 ‘omissi’), miscellaneous books (his [...]
Bibliotheca Herderiana, Vismariae 1804, 349 p., in 8° (reprint: Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat der DDR; Köln, Böhlau 1980).
The sale catalogue compiled on the death of Herder consists of a continuous succession of 7320 descriptions (with a gap of 10 numbers b [...]
Bibliotheca Rudolphi Antonii Fabricii historiae litterariae Prof. Ord. Philosophorum ordinis et totius Academiae senioris Libros ad omne literarum genus spectantes rariores et rarissimos complectens…, Helmstadii, Typis Kuhnlin Acad. Bibliop. 1776-1777.
The sale catalogue drawn up at the death of Fabricius is divided into three volumes (I-II, 1776; III, 1777), for a total of about 18,00 [...]
Bibliotheca Stillingfleetana
At his death, Stillingfleet left a library of nearly 10,000 books, purchased for £2,500 by Narcissus Marsh and today part of Marsh’s Li [...]
Bibliothecae Baumgartenianae Pars I., quae collectionem bibliorum, exegetica, theologica et ecclesiastica continet, cum appendice bibliothecae separatae medicae et miscellaneae, et manuscriptorum
The first part of the principal catalogue of the library—a selection of books was already sold in 1762—includes biblical texts, theolog [...]
Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat, le fonds légué par Beatus Rhenanus
Beatus Rhenanus’ library consists of both manuscripts and printed books. Since 1889, the collection has been located in the Halle aux B [...]
Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, fonds Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson’s library includes works in several languages, in particular in English; exemplars of his own texts; books of philosophy, [...]
La Bibliothèque de Stendhal à Rome (1842), par F. Boyer, Paris, Éditions du Stendhal Club 1923, 16 p.
The Catalogue des livres dépendant de la succession de M. Beyle, consul de France à Civitavecchia, et déposés à l’Ambassade du Roi, dat [...]
Bibliothèques de l’École Normale Supérieure, fonds Georges Canguilhem
By an act of donation dated October 2nd 2003, the École Normale Supérieure received the libraries and the personal archives of George C [...]
Books in Newton’s Library
About Newton’s Library.
Casa-Museo Unamuno, Biblioteca y Archivo personales
The personal library of Miguel de Unamuno consists of approximately 6,000 volumes and is conserved in the Casa-Museo Unamuno, the old r [...]
Catalog der Bibliothek von Laurentius Oken, Zürich, Ulrich 1852, 206 p.
The sale catalogue, drawn up at Oken’s death, lists 5,881 bibliographic descriptions. The subdivision by topics follows the classificat [...]
Catalog der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des am 28. April 1858 in Berlin verstorbenen Dr. Johannes Müller, Bonn, Druck von Carl Georgi 1858, 309 p.
The catalogue consists of 4877 titles listed in alphabetical order and without division into classes. Following is a short Nachtrag (pp [...]
Il catalogo del Fondo Montalto
To accede to the catalogue of Francesco Montaltoi’s private library:From the website of the Biblioteca del Museo pedagogico1) Se [...]
Catalogo della Biblioteca Leopardi in Recanati, in «Atti e memorie della deputazione di storia patria per le province delle Marche», IV, 1899, Ancona, Morelli 1899, 447 p.
The Leopardi family library was created by Count Monaldo Leopardi, father of the poet, who initially purchased books only occasionally [...]
Catalogo della Biblioteca di A.C. De Meis
On 18 October 1890 Angelo Camillo De Meis sent a letter to the mayor of Chieti, Cesare De Laurentiis, stating his desire to donate part [...]
Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Ernest Renan
The catalogue, compiled in the years immediately following the death of Renan and published by Calmann Lévy, the publisher of the Oeuvr [...]
Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. Ravaisson-Mollien, Paris, Em. Paul et fils et Guillemin 1905, 59 p.
The sales catalogue contains 375 bibliographic descriptions numbered continuously and divided into 5 areas: Théologie (no. 1-31), Scien [...]
Catalogue des livres de M. A.H. Anquetil-Duperron, Paris, Tilliard et fils 1805, 236 p.
The catalogue, compiled on the occasion of the sale of the texts, consists of 1600 titles. The printed books are divided into five clas [...]
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Baron d'Holbach, Paris, de Bure 1789, 288 p.
The sale catalogue drawn up at the death of D’Holbach, preceded by an Avertissement, lists 2,777 descriptions numbered continuously, di [...]
Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque artistique, archéologique, historique et littéraire de feu M. Raoul Rochette, Paris, librairie de J. Techner, 1855, XVI + 389 p., portrait, in 8°.
The sale catalogue compiled on the death of Raoul-Rochette consists of a continuous succession of 3363 descriptions divided, in the tra [...]
Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Fustel de Coulanges, Paris, A. Picard 1890, 58 p.
The sale catalogue, published shortly after Fustel de Coulanges’ death, lists 606 bibliographic descriptions numbered in continuous suc [...]
Catalogue des livres imprimés, des manuscrits et des ouvrages Chinois, Tartares, Japonais, etc. composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Klaproth, Paris, R. Merlin 1839, 2 vol. (XII + 308; XIII + 80 p.), in 8º.
The sale catalogue published shortly after Julius Klaproth’s death consists of two parts and an alphabetical index of authors’ names.&n [...]
Catalogue des livres imprimés et manuscrits composant la bibliothèque de M. Eugène Burnouf, Paris, B. Duprat 1854, [8] + 358 p., in 8°
The sale catalogue, compiled on the death of B., is divided into two parts dedicated to printed books and to manuscripts, respectively. [...]
Catalogue des livres imprimés et manuscrits composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le B.on Dacier, Paris, Leblanc 1833, XX + 288 + [2] p., in 8°
The books are divided in five classes, according to the traditional scheme of the Parisian book sellers: Théologie (nos. 1-113), Jurisp [...]