La novella come cornice: la Seconda libraria del Doni
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Keywords
- In 1550 Anton Francesco Doni published the first Libraria
- an ambitious catalogue of printed books
- a year later
- in his Seconda libraria
- he proposes another catalogue
- this time of manuscripts. The structure of this new work is the same as the preceding one
- but with one significant change: the dedication letters that
- in the first part of the Libraria
- introduced the different items in alphabetical order are here substituted by tales. The article discusses this change
- trying to understand the authorâ€
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- s reasons and its significance in relation to the special kind of catalogue which was the Seconda libraria
