We are delighted to announce the publication of Antiquity and its Afterlife. Studies in Honour of Joan Carbonell Manils (Edizioni dell’Orso, 2026), edited by Gerard González Germain and Javier Moralejo Ordax, in the series Studi e testi di epigrafia (vol. 5). The volume pays tribute to Joan Carbonell Manils on the occasion of his seventieth […]
In a recent article published in Aevum, Gerard González Germain examines the epigraphic activity of the humanist, collector, and antiquarian Angelo Colocci (1474-1549). The study draws on Colocci’s annotations in the printed books of his personal library, alongside his epigrammatic and antiquarian manuscripts. Newly identified materials discussed in the paper include a topographic description of ancient Rome, […]
In a recently published article in Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, G. González Germain examines a series of copies of the Epigrammata antiquae urbis (Rome, 1521) with the same set of annotations by Antonio Lelli, Giovenale Manetti, and other humanists. By so doing, he definitively identifies the author of these […]
We are delighted to announce the publication of Antiquarian Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Archaeology and Epigraphy in Printed Books and Manuscripts (De Gruyter 2024), edited by Joan Carbonell Manils and Gerard Gonzalez Germain. This book explores how antiquarian literature (collections of inscriptions, treatises, letters…) developed throughout the sixteenth century, both in manuscript and in […]