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"Francesco Petrarca was born on July 20, 1304. Commemorations of the 700th anniversary of his birth are taking place this year (2004), primarily in Italy but also around the world and in the United States. At Yale University, the celebration includes an international conference on Petrarch, September 23 - 25, and an exhibition at the Beinecke Library, as well as this web exhibition. The Beinecke Library is the leading institution in the United States in collecting Petrarch manuscripts (codices or fragments that contain works by or about Francesco Petrarca), from popular copies of the Canzoniere and Trionfi to the lesser-known De remediis utruisque fortune and Nota de Laura, as well as the memoirs and drawings of the English clergyman and literary editor John Mitford (1781-1859). "

„In August 1617 a small group of Saxon nobles gathered in Castle Hornstein near Weimar to establish a type of institution previously unknown on German soil ‚the learned society'. It was based on the Italian model of the previous century and specifically on the Academia della Crusca of Florence, to whose ranks one of its founding members, Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, had been elected in 1600. Ludwig was the chief benefactor and the head of this new German society until his death in 1650, and he and its other founding members sought inspiration in their pursuit of learning from the many Italian literary societies which had contributed so much to the purification and normalization of Italian letters in the sixteenth century. The new German society was called the ‚Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft', the Fruitbearing Society, and its motto was „Alles zum Nutzen" - ‚Everything for a purpose'".

Die Sammlung der Leichenreden im Staatsarchiv war bisher nur zu einem kleinen Teil im Bibliothekskatalog IDS Basel/Bern erfasst. In einem Rekatalogisierungsprojekt konnten nun durch die Universitätsbibliothek 5689 Aufnahmen entweder neu erstellt oder an vorhandene Aufnahmen angehängt werden. Die hohe Quote von rund 85 Prozent Neuaufnahmen verweist auf die substantielle Erweiterung des Gesamtkatalogs durch die Sammlung der Leichenreden in der Bibliothek des Staatsarchivs. Zeitlich reicht die Sammlung vom 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Der Schwerpunkt liegt allerdings im 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert.

"Engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy whose visual language is composed entirely of lines. From 1480 to 1650 Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to the technique of engraving as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks. ‚The Brilliant Line' follows these visual transformations and offers new insight intothe special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Early Modern engravers."

"But it is now the quadricentennial of Milton's birth in 1608, and it is startling that this work, once central to the literary and religious experience of the English-speaking world, is so much a curiosity, sentenced to the margins by its preoccupations with biblical interpretation, condemned by the density of its prosody, which does not instantly seduce but, instead, commands the reader to give way before it, persisting until no resistance is possible. So perhaps the most we can expect is the library's modest, one-room exhibition "John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life."

"Created in Utrecht, The Netherlands, around 1440, the manuscript was taken apart sometime before 1856. Its leaves were shuffled and then rebound into two volumes to make each look more or less complete."

"Examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view; read supporting material by our curators and other experts: Shakespeare in Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, Gutenberg Bible, Magna Carta, Renaissance Festival Books, Sample: Malory's Arthurian manuscript."

"Bürgermeister Johann Heinrich Waser war eine prägende Gestalt der Zürcher und eidgenössischen Politik in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt ist dagegen Wasers umfangreiche publizistische Tätigkeit. Sie gibt reichen Aufschluss über die Laufbahn dieses Zürcher Staatsmannes und bietet zugleich faszinierende Einblicke in die Alltagsgeschichte der Zürcher Elite jener Zeit."