LECTURE: Anthony Grafton
Lecture Room - 6pm
Friends of the Library Lecture Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam Professor of European History at Princeton University and currently Resident in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome, will examine the social and cultural history of editing, and, in particular, the editing of classical texts in a lecture titled: "Towards a Social History of Editing: Emendation and Proof-Correction in the Renaissance." He will attempt to trace the sources from which the first modern editors, those who worked in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, drew their goals and their methods, as they created the standard form of the modern critical edition. Grafton's many publications include: Defenders of the Text, Commerce with the Classics, The Footnote and Leon Battista Alberti. The Library will hold a sale of duplicate books on 6 May (reserved for the Friends of the Library and the AAR community) and 7 May (open to all Library readers) from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 5pm.
Please note that the American Academy in Rome requires all visitors attending events to present a legal document of identification.
These programs are supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education. For further information: Contact the Programs Office (tel. 39-06-5846459)
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