Dr Flavia Bruni

E-mail: fb323@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis title: The books of S. Pier Piccolo in Arezzo as described in the Enquiry of the Roman Congregation of the Index: a retrospective bibliographic reconstruction

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Pettegree; Co-supervisor: Professor Caterina Tristano

Flavia Bruni graduated in History of the Reformation at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2001) and has a PhD in History and computer science from the University of Bologna (2006). She also has a MPhil in Studies on Early printed books (Siena, 2006) and graduated in Librarianship at the Vatican School of Library Science (2009). She is currently undertaking a co-tutelle PhD between the universities of St Andrews and Siena on the history of the book.

Since 2001 she is involved in the project RICI (Ricerca sull’Inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice) that focuses on 16th-century booklists of Italian monastic libraries. She worked on significant projects for the study and cataloguing of early printed books in Italy, notably the Census of 16th-century editions now in the Emilia-Romagna libraries, carried out by the Soprintendenza per i beni librari e documentari of the Regione Emilia-Romagna, and the digitization project of 16th-18th-century broadsheets in the of the Casanatense Library of Rome. Since 2008 she works to Medioevo Latino, Bibliographical Bulletin of European Culture from Boethius to Erasmus (VIth-XVth Century). Since 2009 is consultant of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, a collective bibliography of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century, carried out by the University of St Andrews.

Her interests are mainly focused on Fifteenth century printed books and libraries; forbidden books and censorship in the Early Modern Age as well as projects involving digital humanities, digitization, text encoding, digital libraries and digital preservation.

Academic Papers

  • 8.9.2011: On the shelves of digital bibliography: the RICI and USTC projects, Summer School History of Mediality – Medialities of History, University of Basel.
  • 8.7.2011: From instrument of censorship to bibliographical resource: authors and book-owners in the survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index, Convegno internazionale Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print, University of St Andrews.
  • 6.11.2010: For a Reconstructive Hypothesis: From Inventories to Signs on Books, 8th International Conference on the Book, University of St. Gallen.
  • 9.9.2010: For a retrospective bibliography: the documentation of the enquiry of the Roman Congregation of the Index, Reformation Studies Colloquium, University of St Andrews.
  • 1.6.2006: Una inquisitio nel convento servita di Lucca: i libri nella cella di fra Lorenzo, Convegno internazionale Libri, biblioteche e cultura degli Ordini Religiosi in Italia nel XVI secolo dalla documentazione della Congregazione dell’Indice: Le librerie degli ordini religiosi in Italia nel XVI secolo, Università di Macerata.
  • 10.2.2003: Le biblioteche dell’Ordine dei Servi di Maria, Seminario Le librerie degli ordini religiosi in Italia nel XVI secolo, Università di Roma Tre.

Publications

Monographs

  • «Erano di molti libri proibiti»: frate Lorenzo Lucchesi e la censura
    libraria a Lucca alla fine del Cinquecento (Roma, Marianum, 2009).

Articles

  • Book Inventories of Religious Orders in Counter-Reformation Italy: the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index, in Constantinidou, N. – Walsby, M. (eds.), Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print. Proceedings of the International Conference, University of St Andrews 7-9/7/2011 (getting into print);
  • From Inventories to Signs on Books: Evidence for the History of Libraries in the Modern Age, «The International Journal of the Book» 8, 4 (2011) pp. 51-60;
  • La biblioteca di S. Pier Piccolo ad Arezzo: tracce per una ipotesi ricostruttiva, in Borraccini, R.M. (ed.), Dalla notitia librorum degli inventari agli esemplari: saggi di indagine su libri e biblioteche dai codici Vaticani latini 11266-11326 (Macerata, Università di Macerata,
    2009) pp. 179-203;
  • Una inquisitio nel convento servita di Lucca: i libri nella cella di fra Lorenzo, in Borraccini, R.M. – Rusconi, R. (eds.), Libri, biblioteche e cultura degli Ordini Regolari nell’Italia moderna attraverso la documentazione della Congregazione dell’Indice, Atti del Convegno internazionale, Macerata 30 maggio - 1 giugno 2006 (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, “Studi e Testi” n. 434,
    2006) pp. 473-523;
  • L’edizione elettronica di un manoscritto: il modello XML, in «Storicamente» 1 (2005), url <http://www.storicamente.org/02_tecnostoria/strumenti/bruni.htm>.

Translations

  • Andrew Pettegree, Lo Universal Short Title Catalogue: verso un censimento globale del libro antico, in Rusconi, R. (ed.), Il libro antico tra catalogo storico e catalogazione elettronica, Atti del Convegno internazionale, Roma 29-30 ottobre 2010, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (getting into print).