2 May
Arrival

3 May

9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introduction

Panel I
Distribution
Chair: Andrea Ottone (Universitetet i Oslo)

9.30-10.00 Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College, University of Oxford), The Distribution of Fifteenth-Century Printed Venetian Books in Germany, and of Fifteenth-Century Printed German Books in Italy: The Evidence

10.00-10.30 Angela Nuovo (Università di Milano) / Renaud Milazzo (EmoBookTrade and Venerable English College Rome), The Compass and the Phoenix: Book Trade and Pricing Practices at the Plantin and the Giolito Firms

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-11.30 Dorit Raines (Università Ca’ Foscari), Loci Capuccinorum…German and Austrian Book Editions in Northern-Italy Capuchin Religious Houses

11.30-12.00 Caren Reimann (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel), Detour to Frankfurt – Exploring the Trade Routes for the Sale of Arabic Books

13.00-14.30 Lunch

Panel II
Centres and Periferies
Chair: Flavia Bruni (Università di Chieti-Pescara)

14.30-15.00 Kevin Stevens (University of Nevada, Reno), Purchasing Books from Cologne (and the Frankfurt Fairs): A Contract between the Antoni Book Firm from Milan and the Birckmann, Publishers in Cologne (1573)

15.00-15.30 Andrea Ottone (Universitetet i Oslo), La circolazione delle edizioni tedesche in Italia alla fine del XVI secolo: una panoramica bibliometrica attraverso la documentazione della Congregazione dell’Indice

15.30-16.00 Break

Panel III
Fields of Knowledge and Interaction
Chair: Jörg Schwarz (Universität Innsbruck)

16.00-16.30 Nina Lamal (NL-Lab), Cooperation or coercion? Diplomats and Publishing Endeavours in Italian and German States

16.30-17.00 Oren Margolis (University of East Anglia), Phoebus in ventre Martis: Aldus Manutius, German Humanists, and the “Long Arm of Kings”

17.00-17.30 Break

17.30-18.00 Julia Bruch (Universität zu Köln), Trading Technical Manuals. Late Medieval Exchange of Knowledge and Books Across the Alps

18.00-18.30 Shanti Graheli (University of Glasgow), Italian Books in Germany: Reading Practices in Negotiating Foreign Texts

19.00 Dinner

4 May

Panel IV
Frictions on the European Market
Chair: Mona Garloff (Universität Innsbruck)

9.00-9.30 Jorge Fragua (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Universiteit Antwerpen), Competition and Style: Typographic Choices and Similarities between Christopher Plantin and the Giunta family

9.30-10.00 Tobias Daniels (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München), Broken Trade Chains, Lost Books and the Questions of Market Orientation, Responsibility and Money: the European Book Trade Network of Bernardino Stagnino

10.00-10.30 Break

10.30-11.00 Flavia Bruni (Università di Chieti-Pescara), “Impresse Venetijs opera arte et expensis Petri Liechtensteyn Coloniensis Germani:” The Commercial Network of a Sixteenth-century German Printer Abroad

11.00-11.30 Magnus Ressel (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main / Universität Bremen), Transmitter für Bücher und Manuskripte zwischen dem Mittelmeer und dem nordalpinen Europa. Die deutsche Nation in Venedig (1650-1800)

Panel V
Religious Fragmentation
Chair: Riccarda Suitner (DHI Rom)

11.30-12.00 Saskia Limbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Financing the Production and Distribution of Lutheran Texts in Italian in the 1560s. The Urach Press and its Multilingual Ambitions

12.00-12.30 Andreea Badea (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main), Information and Control of Knowledge. Roman Booksellers and Early Modern Censorship

13.00-14.30 Lunch

from 14.30 Discussion Forum followed by Excursion

19.00 Dinner

5. May

Panel VI
Acquisition and Market Dynamics
Chair: Tobias Daniels (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

9.00-9.30 William Connell (Seton Hall University, New Jersey), Two Florentines in Paris and Their Books

9.30-10.00 Jörg Schwarz (Universität Innsbruck), Die res publica litteraria auf dem Buchmarkt. Der Hof Kaiser Maximilians I. (1459/1486-1519) und der Fernbuchhandel seiner Zeit

10.00-10.30 Paola Molino (Università di Padova), The Imperial Library of Vienna and the Italian Book Market between 16th and 17th century

10.30-11.00 Break

Panel VII
The Book Market as a New Perspective on the Age of Enlightenment
Chair: Andreea Badea (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

11.00-11.30 Margherita Palumbo (Biblioteca Casanatense, Roma), Edizioni italiane nella collezione privata di Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

11.30-12.00 Mona Garloff (Universität Innsbruck), Wien und der italienische Buchmarkt im frühen 18. Jahrhundert

12.00-12.30 Michael Span (Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck), Ein Priester zwischen libri und Büchern. Die Bibliothek des Tiroler Landgeistlichen Anton Zöggeler (1711–1780)

12.30 Final Discussion

13.00 Lunch, Departure