ACTIVITIES:

1) Meetings. The Executive Board and the Network Facilitator met three times: in St Andrews (03/2014), in Tours (11/2014), and in Venice (06/2015) to co-ordinate the scheduled activities.

2) Workshop 1 and Exhibition of Printed Books, University of St Andrews, 4-5/09/ 2014. Main themes: Barbaro’s manuscripts and printed works, his relations with printers and the context of book-printing in sixteenth-century Venice. A small exhibition of printed books was hosted in the King James Library (1-21/09/2014).

3) Workshop 2, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, 20-21/04/2015. Main themes: reception and influence of Barbaro’s writings in the European context in the sixteenth and following centuries.

4) Exhibition on Printed Books and Manuscripts, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, 10/12/2015-31/01/2016. A Study Day on La pratica della perspettiva (1568) was held on 29/01/2016 to conclude the Network activities.

 

OUTPUTS:

1) Multi-authored book on La pratica della perspettiva (1568).

2) Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, published by Antiga Edizioni.

Essays:

  • Laura Moretti, Daniele Barbaro: la vita e i libri;
  • Susy Marcon, Volentes;
  • Lenia Kouneni, Il volto di Daniele Barbaro;
  • Matteo Casini, Il patriziato della Venezia cinquecentesca;
  • Shanti Graheli, Daniele Barbaro e le accademie venete del Cinquecento;
  • Sara Mansutti, Dalla parte della stampa: Daniele Barbaro e il mondo dell’editoria veneziana;
  • Alessia Giachery, Opere a stampa di Daniele Barbaro nelle collezioni marciane;
  • Silvia Pugliese, Le legature 'Barbaro';
  • Claudia Benvestito, Quali restauri per i manoscritti di Daniele Barbaro;
  • Dorit Raines, La biblioteca manoscritta di Daniele Barbaro: raccolta, uso e dispersione di una collezione veneziana.

3) Catalogue of the exhibition held at the University of St Andrews (1-21/09/2014).

Essays:

  • Claudia Rossignoli, on Dialoghi by Sperone Speroni (1546), St Andrews Special Collections, Classmark TYP IV.B46AS, pp. 7-12;
  • Laura Moretti, on M. Vitruvii Pollionis libri decem, cum commentariis Danielis Barbari, St Andrews Special Collections, Classmark TYP IV.B67FV, pp. 15-17;
  • Flavia Bruni, on Aurea in quinquaginta Davidicos psalmos doctorum Graecorum catena by Daniele Barbaro (1569), St Andrews Special Collections, Classmark GHF 27.c(2), pp. 19-21;
  • Shanti Graheli, on Gaspari Contareni cardinalis Opera (1571), St Andrews Special Collections, Classmark TYP FP.B71NC, pp. 23-26.