Emanuele Casamassima palaeographer and book historian

• Published in: JLIS.it : Italian journal of library and information science Vol. 12; no. 2; p. 1
• Main Author: Zamponi, Stefano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Florence University of Florence, Department of Studies on the Antiquities, Middle Age, the Renaissance and Linguistics 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Casamassima, Emanuele; Handwriting; Middle Ages; Paleography
• ISSN: 2038-5366; 2038-1026
• DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-12702

This paper aims to present a brief overview on Emanuele Casamassima and his research on palaeography and the history of the book. The following topics are discussed: - cataloguing manuscripts according to different models (analytical, short, shared descriptions) - restoration of manuscript and printed books - palaeographic doctrines from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance - importance of sixteenth-century Italian writing masters for the study of the history of handwriting - aspects of the history of the handwriting in the late Middle Ages (the writing of Petrarch and Boccaccio; the humanistic graphic reform) - palaeography as a study of graphic structures, with a focus on the cursive tradition, especially during the Roman age (1st-4th centuries) and in the Middle Ages (10th-13th centuries).