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CITY AND BOOK V: THE EIGHTY AMERICANS IN THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY
SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2008, LYCEUM CLUB AND 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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NEWEST: VIDEO.
Lecture at Cornell, 'Brunetto Latino, Maestro di Dante Alighieri': http://www.cornell.edu/video/details.cfm?vidID=213&display=player

NEWEST: TALKING BOOKS
DANTE ALIGHIERI: File Audio in italiano, Lettura di Carlo Poli:
    Inferno I, Inferno II, Inferno III, Inferno IV, Inferno V, [Inferno VI-VII], Inferno VIII, [Inferno IX], Inferno X, Inferno XI, Inferno XII, Inferno XIII, Inferno XIV, Inferno XV, Inferno XVI, Inferno XVII, Inferno XVIII, Inferno XIX, Inferno XXI, Inferno XXII, Inferno XXIII, Inferno XXIV, Inferno XXV, Inferno XXVI, [Inferno XXVII-XXXII], Inferno XXXIII, Inferno XXXIV
    Purgatorio I, Purgatorio II, Purgatorio III, Purgatorio IV, Purgatorio V, Purgatorio VI, Purgatorio VII, Purgatorio VIII [Purgatorio IX], Purgatorio X, Purgatorio XI, Purgatorio XII, [Purgatorio XIII-XIX], Purgatorio XX, Purgatorio XXI, [Purgatorio  XXII-XXVII], Purgatorio XXIX, Purgatorio XXX, Purgatorio XXXI, Purgatorio  XXXII, Purgatorio XXXIII
    Paradiso I, Paradiso II, Paradiso III, Paradiso IV, Paradiso V, Paradiso VI, Paradiso VII, Paradiso VIII, [Paradiso IX], Paradiso X, [Paradiso XI], Paradiso XII, [Paradiso XIII-XXXII], Paradiso XXXIII
Padre Nostro, Vergine Madre
Carlo Poli was born in the Mugello, where Giotto was born. He is dedicating the rest of his life to reciting and recording Dante.
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(See 'Paideia Dantesca' essay, italiano, where this recording project was dreamed of)
AUDIO FILE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP
AUDIO FILES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, SONNETS AND BALLAD, 1. 'HIRAM POWERS' GREEK SLAVE, SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE, 2, 3, 4, THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AT PILGRIM'S POINT, 5.
AUDIO FILE IN PORTUGUESE, SONETOS PORTUGUESES II This was recorded by Roderigo Araes Caldas Farias who came with his wife from Brazil with their printout of this website to visit Elizabeth's tomb. We collect translations of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, now having these in Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, as well as Portuguese.
AUDIO FILES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING'S CASA GUIDI WINDOWS I, CASA GUIDI WINDOWS II
AUDIO FILES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING'S NINE BOOK EPIC POEM, AURORA LEIGH, BOOK I, BOOK II, BOOK III, BOOK IV, BOOK V, BOOK VI, BOOK VII, BOOK VIII, BOOK IX
AUDIO FILES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ON FLORENCE, 1. PREFACE, 2. CASA GUIDI WINDOWS, 3. AURORA LEIGH & POLITICAL POEMS to accompany Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence, Map of Florence.
AUDIO FILES OF 'AN OLD YELLOW BOOK: THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE' I AND II WITH POWER POINT SLIDES ILLUSTRATING THE SAME
AUDIO FILES OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, GEBIR I, GEBIR II
AUDIO FILES OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH In progress
Latest Poets on Poets: Vyachleslav P. Shestakov of the University of Moscow and Arfon Rees of the European University Institute, Fiesole, discussing their translations of poets, recorded in the Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei', 24 June 2008.
Re-call HTML page in your browser, after reducing MP3 file, this continuing to play as background to the seen text. It is even possible to call up multiple audio files listening to these simultaneously.

John Ruskin, who wrote Mornings in Florence,
sketched its Baptistery in water colour

he culture of Florence was based on skilled handwork, on alphabetical learning and on numerical banking. Its coin (the 'Florin' of our Website's URL), became the currency of Europe, the medieval Euro, using on one side the lily of the Virgin at the Annunciation, on the other, John the Baptist; Mary and John from the Gospel's pages becoming Florence's patrons. For the Bible from Asia, as 'a stranger in a strange land', had already become currency throughout Europe, and from it were to be spawned countless other books, such as Dante Alighieri's Commedia, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Madame de Staël's Corinne ou l'Italie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, George Eliot's Romola, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Fyodor Dosteivsky's The Idiot, each of these with Florentine associatons. At first books were written out by hand, in manuscript (the 'ms' of our Website's URL), often gold-leafed as well as rainbow-coloured, and were read aloud and chanted from. Then they became black and white printed books, read silently in intellectual loneliness. Now they can be the sensuous luminous and harmonious pages, with colour again, and with song, with voice, through the new/old technologies of alphabet and number, the zeros and ones, of our computers, of our information society.

I. FLORENCE THROUGH TIME

MEDIEVAL ITALY

 
RENAISSANCE ITALY & FLORENCE
 

VICTORIAN FLORENCE
 

MODERN FLORENCE

II. THE BRUNETTO LATINO WEBSITE

 have a dream of Florence being the world's University. Brunetto Latino had a similar dream, which he nurtured in exile in Spain and France after the 1260 Battle of Montaperti, returning to Florence to teach Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri and Francesco da Barberino. This website contains transcriptions of medieval manuscripts, essays, conference proceedings and, as E-Books, Latino's Il Tesoretto, Li Livres dou Tresor, La Rettorica, and a volume of essays Sweet New Style; Essays on Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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III. THE CITY AND THE BOOK I, II, III, IV, V WEBSITE

his website, listed in Intute: Arts and Humanities, and , was initially created to present the Proceedings of the International Congresses on the City and the Book held in Florence, The City and the Book I: The Alphabet, the Bible,  May/June 2001, at the Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, and the Certosa; The City and the Book II: The Manuscript, The Miniature, September 2002, at the Accademia dell'Arte del Disgeno, via Orsanmichele; The City and the Book III: Thunders of White Silence: The 'English' Cemetery, 3-5 June 2004, at the Gabinetto Vieusseux, Palazzo Strozzi, and the 'English' Cemetery; The City and the Book IV, The Savage Landors, The British Institute of Florence's Harold Acton Library and the 'English' Cemetery; The City and the Book V, 'The 80 Americans in the Swiss-Owned so-called 'English' Cemetery, 11 October, the Salone Brunelleschi, Palazzo di Parte Puelfa, the Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze, Palazzo Giugni, and the 'English' Cemetery.

BENVENUTI A 'LA CITTA` E IL LIBRO', FIRENZE, MAGGIO/GIUGNO 2001, SETTEMBRE 2002, 3-5 GIUGNO 2004, CONVEGNI INTERNAZIONALI

ATTI: LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO I: L'ALFABETO, LA BIBBIA, 2001

ATTI: LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO II: IL MANOSCRITTO, LA MINIATURA, 2002

ATTI: LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO III: IL CIMITERO DETTO 'DEGLI INGLESI', 2004

ATTI: LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO V: GLI 80 AMERICANI NEL CIMITERO 'DEGLI INGLESIS', 2008

LABORATORIO RILEGATURA LIBRI, ENRICO GIANNINI, 31 MAGGIO-2 GIUGNO, 2004, 7-16 OTTOBRE 2008

FIERA DEL LIBRO, 3-4 GIUGNO, 2004, 11 OTTOBRE 2008

The Annunciation, March 25, was Florence's New Year. Dante begins the Jubilee Commedia,
March 25, 1300, now seven centuries ago. This Della Robbia glazed terra cotta, photographed
by Carolyn Carpenter, is in Florence's Ospedale degli Innocenti's cloister.   

WELCOME TO THE CITY AND THE BOOK I,II,III, FLORENCE, MAY/JUNE 2001, SEPTEMBER 2002, 3-5 JUNE 2004, OCTOBER 2007, OCTOBER 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES:

PROCEEDINGS: THE CITY AND BOOK I: THE ALPHABET, THE BIBLE, 2001

PROCEEDINGS: THE CITY AND BOOK II: THE MANUSCRIPT, THE MINIATURE, 2002

PROCEEDINGS: THE CITY AND THE BOOK III: THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, 2004

PROCEEDINGS: THE CITY AND THE BOOK V: THE 80 AMERICANS IN THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, 2008

BOOK BINDING WORKSHOP, ENRICO GIANNINI, 8-10 OCTOBER 2008

FIERA DEL LIBRO, 11 OCTOBER 2008

We held 'The City and the Book IV' in October 2007, and 'The City and the Book V' in October 2008. We are dedicated to saving Florence's very beautiful, famous, abandoned 'English' Cemetery, which in this year celebrates its 180th year of existence, the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church having bought this land from the Grand Duke in 1827, the first burial being in 1828.

 

IV. THE 'THUNDERS OF WHITE SILENCE WEBSITE', ON FLORENCE'S ENGLISH CEMETERY

his website next became the publisher of the catalogue of tombs in the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery in Florence, resulting in information coming from descendants and scholars from as far away as Africa and Australia.

This catalogue is linked to files, of use to scholars, genealogists and relatives, giving the complete registry of the tombs in the so-called English Cemetery in Florence and the Cimitero agli Allori, just outside Florence, opened in 1877 when the 'English Cemetery' was closed for burials:

English Cemetery Register A-D, http://www.florin.ms/cemetery1.html
English Cemetery Register E-L, http://www.florin.ms/cemetery2.html
English Cemetery Register M-R, http://www.florin.ms/cemetery3.html
English Cemetery Register S-Z, http://www.florin.ms/cemetery4.html

Cimitero 'Agli Allori' Register A, http://www.florin.ms/alloriA.html  through
Cimitero 'Agli Allori' Register Z, http://www.florin.ms/alloriZ.html

There are also essays about the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery in Florence

See as well http://piazzaledonatello.blogspot.com

V. THE ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING WEBSITE

            



The laurel wreath on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb by Frederic Lord Leighton, laid there in a ceremony by the City of Florence, honouring the great poet, just following its restoration by Alberto Casciani.

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VI. THE FLORENCE IN SEPIA WEBSITE

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence italiano/English || Florence in Sepia italiano/English || Anna Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art, transcribed and scanned, Carolyn Carpenter English || Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Notes in Florence, transcribed, Julia Bolton Holloway English || Susan and Joanna Horner, Walks in Florence, transcribed, Carolyn Carpenter English || Augustus J.C. Hare, Florence, transcribed, Julia Bolton Holloway English

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VII. THE AUREO ANELLO WEBSITE

We are an Association (Aureo Anello Associazione Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei e Amici del Cimitero 'degli Inglesi'), formed under Italian law, composed of members throughout the world, and which seeks to become a Foundation under Italian law, to carry out the restoration of the 'English' Cemetery and to maintain the Cemetery, its library and workshop, the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei, and these websites. 'Aureo Anello' as title is taken from the words on the plaque on Casa Guidi placed there in 1861 by the Italian government, that she made of her poetry a golden ring betwixt Italy and the English-speaking world.





VIII. THE MEDIATHECA 'FIORETTA MAZZEI' WEBSITE  

his website is also the catalogue of the Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' membership in which is through the gift of a book a year.

ALEPH=Bible Commentaries/ Hebraism, Islam/ Alphabet, Babylonian/Egyptian, Hebrew Bible, Greek Testament, Bible, Early Christianity, Desert Fathers, Greek/Russian Orthodoxy, Latin Christianity, Celtic Christianity, Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Hagiography, Medieval, Renaissance Bible, Women in Christianity, Church Today, Modern Contemplative Theology, Modern Hagiography/Biography, Liturgy/Catechism/Magisterium, Children
BETH=Monastic Orders: Benedictine, Brigittine, Carmelite, Carthusian, Dominican, Franciscan/ Clarissan, Newer Orders, Modern Communities, Anglican, Modern Contemplative Theology, Liturgy/Catechism/Magisterium || Medieval Studies, Women in Middle Ages, Beguine, Anchoress, Hermit, Julian of Norwich, Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, Pilgrimage, Lollard, Quaker, etc., Comparative Religions
GIMEL=Classics, Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Modern Languages: French, Provencal, Italian, || Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dictionaries || Grammars, Handbooks on Style || Florence's Political Theologians: Don Giulio Facibeni, Giorgio La Pira, Fioretta Mazzei, Pietro Parigi, Don Lorenzo Milani, Giannozzo Pucci, Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana, Rom Studies ||
DALETH=Icelandic and British Literature: Icelandic, Old English, Welsh, Arthurian, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Drama, Chaucer, Langland, Pearl, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Blake, Memoirs and Letters, Short Story, Novel
HE=Twentieth Century Literature, Poetry, Trauma, Women, Australian, Black, Native American, Rom, Holocaust || Nineteenth Century Literature, keyed to tombs in "English" Cemetery, Florence [shelved in this order, though catalogued chronologically], Criticism
VAU=Firenze, Music, Glorney Bolton, Eileen Bolton, Julia Bolton Holloway publications
ZAYIN=Toscana, Italy, Travel, Art History, Codicology/ Paleography, Handcrafts,
KHETH=Electronic and Microform Library, e-books on-line, CDs in library, microfilms of medieval and nineteenth-century manuscripts, slides, etc.
TET=Scholarly offprints
TAU='English' Cemetery, Archive and Library

LIBRARY PAGES: BIBLIOTECA E BOTTEGA FIORETTA MAZZEI || ITS ONLINE CATALOGUE || HOW TO RUN A LIBRARY || MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES || MANUSCRIPTS || MUSEUMS || FLORENTINE LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS || HOW TO BUILD CRADLES AND LIBRARIES || BOTTEGA || PUBLICATIONS || LIMITED EDITIONS || LIBRERIA EDITRICE FIORENTINA || SISMEL EDIZIONI DEL GALLUZZO || FIERA DEL LIBRO || FLORENTINE BINDING || CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOPS || BOOKBINDING WORKSHOPS

IX. THE ROM WEBSITE

The Rom (gypsies) have no army, no national boundaries, while their flag is of the green of the earth, the blue of the sky, the red of a waggon wheel. This website seeks to reduce fear of them in Florence and to enable their own culture to be preserved.

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X. FLORIN, A NON-PROFIT GUIDE TO CULTURE AND COMMERCE IN FLORENCE

This Florin Website is presented to enhance the knowledge and appreciation of Florence's work ethic, which stretches back to the Desert Fathers and their making of baskets and books (baskets to earn their bread, books to continue conversing across time and space about contemplation), which was continued in Benedictine monasteries, and in lay cities, like Assisi, like Florence. Florence's University came into being after Dante's day. Yet, in the century preceding him, before ever the Medici were heard of, literacy had been extraordinarily high, fathers and mothers teaching sons and daughters their letters as they worked together in family botteghe or workshops. This website welcomes you to Florence, and makes suggestions about museums, libraries and shops to visit. Italy has half the world's art treasures, Florence has half Italy's art treasures.
   

IN ITALIANO: Convegni su 'La Città e il Libro' || Atti, La città e il libro I: L'alfabeto, la Bibbia italiano/English || Atti, La città e il libro II: Il manoscritto, la miniature italiano/English ||  Atti, La città e il libro III: Silenziosa eloquenza italiano/English' || Programma || Apuleio || Aureo Anello Statuto, Verbale || Biblioteca, Catalogo || La Firenze di Elizabeth Barrett Browning || Enrico Nencioni, 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning' || Bigallo || Brunetto Latino, Prefazio ||  Il Tesoretto italiano || Brunetto Latino, Il Fagoletto italiano || Casaguidi (Benvenuto a Casaguidi) italiano/English ||  Catalogo Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei ||  Marino Marini, Ceramiche rinascimentali nel Cimitero 'degli Inglesi' || Cimitero degli Inglesi italiano || Cimiteri Evangelici, Firenze (Cimitero agli Allori, Cimitero Porta a' Pinti, detto 'Degli Inglesi') italiano || Dante Alighieri e il Giubileo del 1300 || Lectura Dantis, Carlo Poli, mp3 || Della Robbia Rosary || Giovanna Carocci Giorgio La Pira e Fioretta Mazzei || Preghiera della Repubblica di San Procolo || Giannozzo Pucci, Giovanna Carocci, Omaggio a Fioretta Mazzei || Fioretta (Fioretta Mazzei) English/ italiano/ Portugues || Fioretta Mazzei Pensieri blu o verdi raccolti da an assessore per una più vasta sicurezza sociale || Giubileo || Gli Irlandesi in Italia || Libreria Editrice Fiorentina || Mass in Italian for English speakers' participation italiano/English || Modo Antiquo di Bettina Hoffmann italiano || Padre Nostro || Poesie da un Penny || Pronto intervento nel Cimitero || Rom || Rosario || Russi nel Cimitero || Piero Fusi, Henry Savage Landor ||  SISMEL || Tuoni di bianco silenzio || La Vita Nuova: Paradigmi di pellegrinaggio || Santa Zita

IN ENGLISH: I Fratelli Alinari English || Alphabet English || Anglo (Anglo-Italian Studies Website, where we began, presenting many further essays of historical relations between English and Italian culture) ||  Augustus J.C. Hare. Florence. E-Book English Florence in Sepia Project || Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Notes in Florence ||  'Aureo Anello'. Associazione Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei e Amici del Cimitero 'degli Inglesi' italiano/English || Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei English ||  Bicycle (The Joy of Bicycling in Florence) English || Blue-Green Thoughts, Fioretta Mazzei italiano/English || Book-Binding: The Codex Amiatinus Facsimile, by Manuela Vestri italiano/English || Book-Binding in Florence, by Enrico Giannini, May/June 2004 English || Bronte (Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh) English || Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer Website italiano/English ||  Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto italiano ||  Brunetto Latino, Il Fagoletto italiano ||  Bruno Vivoli (Florentine Print-Maker) English || Calligraphy in Calenzano, Illuminating Workshop, Florence, September 2002 English ||  Casaguidi (Welcome to Casaguidi) italiano/English ||  Certosa (Birgitta of Sweden and the Certosa del Galluzzo) Latin/English || Daleth, Digitizing manuscripts, monuments || 'English Cemetery', Florence, four linked files) Florence in Sepia Project italiano/English ||  Cimiteri Evangelici, Firenze (Cimitero agli Allori, Cimitero Porta a' Pinti, detto 'Degli Inglesi') italiano ||  Michael Ayrton, Ensign Yelverton's Spoon || City and Book III, International Congress, Florence, The 'English Cemetery': Marble Silence, Programme Includes Florence in Sepia Project italiano/English || Directions for Villa Agape || Cradle (How to Build Libraries and Cradles) English || Dante and the 1300 Jubilee italiano/English ||  Elizabeth Barrett's Florence E-Book Florence in Sepia Project italiano/English ||  Preface ||  Poetry I ||  Poetry II || Map ||  Fiera (City and Book I, II, III Book Fairs, Piazzale Donatello, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence) English ||  Lapo Mazzei English || Giorgio La Pira & Fioretta Mazzei Portal || Giorgio La Pira Timeline || Fioretta (Fioretta Mazzei) italiano/English/ Portugues || Prayer of San Procolo ||  Florence in Sepia Portfolio of nineteenth-century Florentine photographs Florence in Sepia Project English ||  Florence's Libraries and Museums English || Florence Flood, 1966  || Florin (Non-Profit Guide to Commerce in Florence) English ||  Folio (Study of Medieval Manuscripts) English || Library (Catalogue, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei) italiano/English ||  Maps of Florence, English ||  Mass in Italian for English speakers' participation italiano/English ||  Modo Antiquo di Bettina Hoffmann italiano ||  Pandect (The Codex Amiatinus) by Maria Makepeace English ||  Pomegranate (On Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning) English ||  Proceedings, City and Book I: The Alphabet, the Bible, International Congress, Florence (five linked files) italiano/English ||  Proceedings, City and Book II: The Manuscript, the Miniature, International Congress, Florence (11 linked files) italiano/English ||  Proceedings, City and Book III: Eloquent Silence, Words on Stone: Florence's 'English Cemetery',  italiano/English ||  Il Punto Antico/ Drawn-Thread Work by Maria Margheri Manetti English ||  St Umilta English (il libro è in italiano/English) ||  Susan and Joanna Horner, Walks in Florence, transcribed, Carolyn Carpenter E-Book Florence in Sepia Project English ||  St Zita (Francesca Alexander, Saint Zita) italiano/English  AUDIO FILES: Lady Geraldine's Courtship, Sonnets and Ballad, Casa Guidi Windows I, Casa Guidi Windows II, Aurora Leigh

IN PORTUGUES: AUDIO FILE: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonetos Portugueses II


EDITRICE 'AUREO ANELLO'/ AUREO ANELLO BOOKS:

SEE ABOVE FOR TALKING BOOKS

 
E-BOOKS:

Sweet New Style: Essays on Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer English  Contents:

Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri:
I Bankers and Their Books: Italian Manuscripts in French Exile
II Brown Ink, Red Blood: Brunetto Latino and the Sicilian Vespers
III The Vita Nuova's Pilgrimage Paradigms
IV Stealing Hercules' Club: Inferno XXV's Metamorphoses
Geoffrey Chaucer:
V Black and Red Letter Chaucer
VI Fact and Fiction: Women in Love
VII Convents, Courts and Colleges
VIII The Tomb of the Duchess Alice
Epilogue: Attica State Prison, Boethius the Exile, Dante the Pilgrim

See also Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto, La Rettorica

OTHER E-BOOKS OUR VIRTUAL LIBRARY PUBLISHES ON LINE:

The Julian of Norwich Library Project:
Latin with Laughter: Terence through Time Latin and English
Miriam and Aaron: The Bible and Women In Progress
Benedict's Rule Latin
Gregory's Dialogue II Latin
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelationes Latin
Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages
A Benedictine Nun in Exile, Colections
Jarena Lee, Her Call to Preach the Gospel
Rose Lloyds, An English Rose

The Brunetto Latino Project:
Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto Italian and English
Brunetto Latino, La Rettorica Italian
Sweet New Style: Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer
Aucassin and Nicolete French and English

Florence in Sepia Project:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence Italian and English
Susan and Joanna Horner, Walks in Florence, transcribed, Carolyn Carpenter
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 'Florence', from Notes in Italy
Augustus J.C. Hare, Florence
Florence in Sepia

See below and /portfolio for hard-copy books and CDs available from this website, which publishes books to support its library, the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei.


LINKS TO E-BOOKS in English on Florence elsewhere on the Web:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters, 1851-1861, mostly written in Florence
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/6/4/16646/16646-h/16646-h.htm  ||
Theodosia Trollope, Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution 

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC19875468&id=UqXn1sgEpNgC&printsec=titlepage&dq=florence+italy&as_brr=1||

Pasquale Villari, Savonarola, trans. Linda Villari (zip files)
http://www.tracts.ukgo.com/girolamo_savonarola.htm
George Eliot, Romola
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/romola/romola-1.html ||
John Ruskin, Mornings in Florence
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext05/8fmrn10.txt ||
John Ruskin, Val d'Arno
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext05/8arno10.txt ||
Henry James, Italian Hours
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext04/8ihou10.txt ||
W.D. Howells, Indian Summer
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext05/8insm10h.htm ||
E.V. Lucas, A Wanderer in Florence
http://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/7/6/10769/10769-8.txt ||
An illustrated version of Edward Hutton's Florence and Northern Tuscany:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/4/7/16477/16477-h/16477-h.htm ||

See /portfolio for hard-copy books and CDs available from this website, which publishes books to support its library, the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei

FLORENTINE COMMERCE:

IMAGES, FABRICS, BOOKS: I Fratelli Alinari English || http://www.anticosetificiofiorentino.com/handwoven Renaissance silks|| Romano Romoli, Casa dei Tessuti  || Bibbia Amiatina/ Codex Amiatinus half-size half facsimiles available italiano/English || Borgo La Croce (ceramics) || BrunoVivoli (Florentine Print-Maker) English || Maria Margheri Manetti, Punto Antico ||  Fiera City and Book I,II,III Book Fairs English || Florin (A Non-Profit Guide to Commerce in Florence) English || Enrico Giannini, Bookbinder || Handcrafts (by our Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei) English || James Rotherham, painter || Libreria (Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, Florentine Book Publisher) italiano || SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medio Evo Latino) italiano/English || Portfolio/CD (Hand-bound Limited edition Books/ CDs) English
||  Library libzayin

   www.libreriachiari.it || www.firenzelibri.it 

WHERE TO STAY IN FLORENCE:

Residence Michelangiolo: My computer gurus have now changed their ancestral Liberty style villa into a stunning residence, complete with internet connections: http://www.residencemichelangiolo.it/(click on 'English Version' to enter their website from this initial page);

Villa Agape: We house our conference guests in a most beautiful Renaissance garden-surrounded villa beloved by Galileo and run by nuns, called Villa Agape on Via Torre del Gallo 8/10 who have no website;

Hotel Park Palace: Our Swiss owners of this 'English' Cemetery have the Hotel Park Palace and bookings with them can be made at http://www.parkpalace.com

Click image to see Florence's florins, Europe's first euro,
with the lily on one side, St John the Baptist on the other
 
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We invite Florentine artigiani (craftspeople) and publishing houses to tell us of their products and their addresses for inclusion in Florin.
 

Our Patrons: Dr Henry & Mildred Abraham, America, Sir James Ackroyd, England, Philip Adams, Australia, Alliance of Literary Societies, England, Amici dei Musei Fiorentini, Firenze, Birgitta Anderfelt & Peter Anger, Sweden, Gloria Anzilotti, Firenze, Sir William Arbuthnot, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, America, Dr. Stephen Prickett, Director, Anthony Astbury, The Greville Press, England, Association for Gravestone Studies, America, Association for Significant Cemeteries in Europe (ASCE), Bologna, Jonathan Auten, America, Judy & Alessandro Basso, Firenze, Anna Bahrenburg Barbetti, Firenze, Alfredo e Gabriela Bardazzi, Scandicci, Aurelia Bartholini, Firenze, Libbie Batazzi, Firenze, Jeffrey Begeal, America, Ursula Betka, Australia, Bro Elia Beaver, Israel, Erna Beck, Norway, Mary Beckinsale, Firenze, Tom Belz, America, Maria Pia Benvenuti, Florence, Simonetta Berbeglia, Arezzo, Barbara Bergamaschi, Florence, avv. Alessandro Berti, Florence, Ursula Betka, Australia, Fabrizio Biagi, Florence, Kim Bjorklund, Finland, Raymond F. and Gene Bogucki, America, Giovanna Bossi Rosenfeld, Florence, Maurizio Bossi, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Elise Boulding, America, Clive Britton, The Norbert Brainin Foundation, Florence, Elda Brasca, Florence, Janet and David Bromley, Scotland, The Brontë Society, England, The Browning Society, England, R.A. Browning, England, Robert L. Browning, America, Peter J.E. 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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

SONNETS AND BALLAD

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Two hundred and fifty numbered, signed editions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 'On Hiram Powers' Greek Slave', and the ballad, Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, are edited, translated, typeset in William Morris Troy and Golden fonts, handbound in hand-marbled papers. Elizabeth finally, shyly, gave the sonnet cycle to Robert in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, after the birth of their child, 'Pen', though she had written them during their Wimpole Street, London, courtship. Robert immediately had them published. These volumes are produced in the English Cemetery in Florence, Italy, where both Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Hiram Powers are buried. Their sales will help fund the restoration of the Swiss-owned, so-called 'English' Cemetery.

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The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer (ISBN0-8204-2090-5); illustrated, indexed, third edition, available from Julia Bolton Holloway. $25, 25 euro.

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Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri (ISBN 0-8204-1954-0), illustrated, indexed, available from Julia Bolton Holloway. $25, 25 euro. Review
 

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Concentrating on Florence, this CD contains e-books, such as Augustus J.C. Hare's Florence, Susan and Joanna Horner's Walks in Florence, an album of nineteenth-century photographs of Italy purchased by the Mother Foundress of the Community of the Holy Family, illustrative materials on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, etc. It is a useful guide for scholars of medieval, Renaissance and Victorian Florence and for tourists to modern Florence.
 

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