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Welcome to the database of books published by Italian Academies between 1525 and 1700.

The Italian Academies Themed Collection provides a detailed searchable database for locating printed material relating to the Italian learned Academies active in Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bologna, Brindisi, Caltanissetta, Catania, Catanzaro, Enna, L’Aquila, Lecce, Mantua, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Rome, Salerno, Siena, Syracuse, Trapani, and Venice in the period 1525-1700 and now held in the collections of the British Library. 		   

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You can search the database for information on:

  • Academies – their names, activities, interests, location, dates, emblems and mottoes
  • Books – titles, authors, publication details, illustrations, censors
  • Persons names, nicknames, dates, nationality, mottoes, emblems, portraits and roles

Records may contain images in addition to text

Historical, bibliographical and critical information is listed in a Notes field in each record.

The database can be searched using either Quick or Advanced Search. For details on how to search the database please see our Search tips.

The database has been compiled for the Italian Academies AHRC-funded project (AH/H023631/1) by Simone Testa and Lorenza Gianfrancesco, under the direction of Jane Everson (Project Director), Lisa Sampson and Denis Reidy (Co-investigators) with the assistance of Tom Denman (PhD candidate).

Technical design and support provided by the British Library eIS department.

Italian translations have been provided by Lorenza Gianfrancesco.

This catalogue is supported by the

AHRC Royal Holloway University of Reading

Please note the catalogue is a work-in-progress and represents the progress to-date of a four-year collaborative project with Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Reading which is generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.